Block Meerschaum

[LeafErikson]

That’s clearly a clay pipe. You can see the seam on the material and the cork in the mortise is a dead giveaway.

At best that eBay seller is ignorant, but, ignorance isn’t an excuse for negligence. At worst that eBay seller is a full blown scammer.

 

[AJL67]

Found two nice meer i was going to recommend for a person new to them to buy, yahhhhhh but i ended up putting bids on them myself.

 

[AJL67]

I would say this block meer has a "seam", must not be serious as it's listed in very good condition.

 

[Said.ALTINAY]

One thing about Said, he sure does reply fast!

Hello Adam
Hope you are doing well.
Thank you very much for reporting this abusement.
Regards


Said ALTINAY

I just saw this topic.
After your e-mail (by the way, thank you again for informing me about the issue), I wrote to the man and the next day I saw that he had unlisted the product.

 

[Said.ALTINAY]

The hardest part is finding a 9mm one as I prefer using a filter.

Hi Bassman,
Even though they are not always listed on our site, we always have 9mm pipes in our drawers.
If you are interested please contact to me.

 

[AJL67]

These ppl are amazing.

 

[BrightDarkEyes]

I’m

These ppl are amazing.

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I think they forgot to mention Victorian bulldogs have a third line where the bowls connects to the shank.

 

[runscott]

I have quite a few 9mm meerschaums. I suggest looking at MBSD meerschaum pipes, and Black Meerschaum. They are excellent people who sell high quality and large sized meerschaum pipes.

Ironically, the first and last time I ever communicated with them was to tell them that a pipe they were selling as 'meerschaum' was actually clay. At the time their feedback was under 100 so they were just getting started and I thought I was helping. I got a snarky reply and they showed me a briar pipe and asked if it was meerschaum. It looks like they have expanded and figured things out.

 

[BrightDarkEyes]

Ironically, the first and last time I ever communicated with them was to tell them that a pipe they were selling as 'meerschaum' was actually clay. At the time their feedback was under 100 so they were just getting started and I thought I was helping. I got a snarky reply and they showed me a briar pipe and asked if it was meerschaum. It looks like they have expanded and figured things out.

That’s hard to believe. I am guessing it wasn’t Black meerschaum because they are from Turkey and would know how to identify meerschaum.

 

[runscott]

That’s hard to believe. I am guessing it wasn’t Black meerschaum because they are from Turkey and would know how to identify meerschaum.

I hadn't heard of Black meerschaum. The seller had a clay listed as meerschaum. People new to clay and meerschaum make that mistake fairly often, as we have seen. I just told them it was clay and explained why. They got defensive, but eventually changed the listing. My guess at the time was that someone got hold of a whole lot of estate meers and had no idea what was going on. So now I assume they have learned.