Received this Julius Vesz from my dad. It was gifted to him years ago. He smoked it for years and then had a doc say, "you are smoking that pipe too much." (He was.) He gave it up. The Vesz sat. But also...he had dropped the pipe and snapped the shank. He is not a big pipe guy and just got out the gorilla glue and put it back together (and smoked it frequently). Hm...not a great repair. The best part of the story is that he never, ever had a clue how much this pipe cost.
(First image is the silver band, a really nice element, with the remains of the shank inside. It lines up firmly with the remaining shank on the bowl and could be glued...)
Now I have it. I took it apart and have been in touch with the Vesz folks. My question is: are they likely to do anything besides glue it (more neatly) back together? I'm trying to imagine what a repair from Vesz might run and if it, in the long run, will make any difference. Not even sure how to think about it: would it make the pipe, I don't know, somehow more valuable, if Vesz himself did the repair? He would do it in some superior manner? Never had a pipe worth fixing before so I'm in the dark.
(First image is the silver band, a really nice element, with the remains of the shank inside. It lines up firmly with the remaining shank on the bowl and could be glued...)
Now I have it. I took it apart and have been in touch with the Vesz folks. My question is: are they likely to do anything besides glue it (more neatly) back together? I'm trying to imagine what a repair from Vesz might run and if it, in the long run, will make any difference. Not even sure how to think about it: would it make the pipe, I don't know, somehow more valuable, if Vesz himself did the repair? He would do it in some superior manner? Never had a pipe worth fixing before so I'm in the dark.