We were cleaning out the house and found this in our attic.its a wooden pipe with a plastic black tip and a 14k gold cap with a lion on top of it. I know absolutely nothing about pipes so any help is appreciated.
Can anyone identify this pipe?
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the info on this link will help posting photos
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/picture-posting-help#post-751534
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/picture-posting-help#post-751534
I am eagerly anticipating this photo, that pipe sounds like a great find. (Sorry, lionpipe122. I know this is of little help).
Welcome aboard lionpipe122
Sounds like an amazing find. Maybe it's a sign to put some tobacco in it and get smoking!
Sounds like an amazing find. Maybe it's a sign to put some tobacco in it and get smoking!
Okay. I had this down once ad forgot it. Let me try deathmetal's instructions and see if they work.
This is an eBay "find" for $18.50. Did I find something valuable, or just a great smoke? Because it is the best of my little collection so far. Gives me a long, cool smoke with no bite and billows of smoke. R/ight to the top of my meager rotation. No maker's mark, so I assume it's an amateur attempt (notice the digs and flaws).
Any thoughts?
(Right-click the link and open in a new tab. It's an album.)
This is an eBay "find" for $18.50. Did I find something valuable, or just a great smoke? Because it is the best of my little collection so far. Gives me a long, cool smoke with no bite and billows of smoke. R/ight to the top of my meager rotation. No maker's mark, so I assume it's an amateur attempt (notice the digs and flaws).
Any thoughts?
(Right-click the link and open in a new tab. It's an album.)
Looks bloody hideous to me but to each his own :
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If you like it and it smokes well then good on you, you likely got a good deal.
Regards,
Jay.
:If you like it and it smokes well then good on you, you likely got a good deal.
Regards,
Jay.
Speaking of new pipes and posts coming through...
An eBay win for one of many Chinese artisan--not factory!--just now appearing. I missed one near $80, but got this at the low price of $26. No intention to smoke it. Goesright on the shelf and gets dusted regularly. I am betting these go up in value.
Let me try the images. Again, if they don't show up, double-tap on the Mac trackpad and select "Open in new tab."
https://sli.mg/a/fTiBty
An eBay win for one of many Chinese artisan--not factory!--just now appearing. I missed one near $80, but got this at the low price of $26. No intention to smoke it. Goesright on the shelf and gets dusted regularly. I am betting these go up in value.
Let me try the images. Again, if they don't show up, double-tap on the Mac trackpad and select "Open in new tab."
https://sli.mg/a/fTiBty
What happened to the original lion pipe? it seems like the thread got used for the threads purpose but not by the OP ha
"No intention to smoke it."
Why on earth buy a pipe yet have no intention of smoking it? It was presumably made to be smoked so go ahead and fire it up and let everyone know how well (or not as the case may be) it smokes.
I would be curious as to what wood it is made from as it doesn't look like briar to me.
Regards,
Jay.
Why on earth buy a pipe yet have no intention of smoking it? It was presumably made to be smoked so go ahead and fire it up and let everyone know how well (or not as the case may be) it smokes.
I would be curious as to what wood it is made from as it doesn't look like briar to me.
Regards,
Jay.
Jay, because it may be practical, but it's also a work of craftsmanship and art. I would no more ruin it by scorching it than I would "improving" the Mona Lisa by adding mascara. It's a beautiful thing to me on its own, and I believe it has a place on my shelves with the books, the jade dragon, the carved iron Tibetan basket, and the other pipes I've taken out of circulation as I've gotten these beautiful two to replace them. I have now an already-smoked Ben Wade lovely some-other-wood-that-isn't-briar, perhaps walnut; it's a smooth Dublin with rusticated peaks (there's another word not coming to me), and I don't mind smoking it because it's already been smoked. The Golden Danish, which will sit on the shelf, will enter the rotation once in a while because it's also been smoked. I got a rustic, carved giant with a rusticated top; it's rustic under the top because it was carved by someone not at the top of his skills. It's been smoked in so I don't mind using it. The last estate pipe I got is supposed to be Danish, again with amateur carving and rusticated top and mortise, missing a stem, but it smells almost new. If I can find a stem that fits it, it'll go into the rotation. There's also a set of 6 Jimmy Ropps in my cabinet; one went in a pay it forward thread, and one is in my rotation. (It smokes like a reed of straw, so it doesn't get much use.)
But that Jack Su looks to be a gorgeous artisanal work, and if it's any less, I'll smoke it; otherwise, I'll hang onto it in case the value on them improves.
But that Jack Su looks to be a gorgeous artisanal work, and if it's any less, I'll smoke it; otherwise, I'll hang onto it in case the value on them improves.
It never ceases to amaze me the amount of folks who just buy pipes purely as ornaments to 'display' in a cabinet or whatever and have no intention of smoking.
To me a pipe is nothing more than a smoke and nicotine delivery device...nothing more. If you were say a mechanic would you display a set of spanners or wrenches in a cabinet?
Yes, some pipes do look very artful in their design but they were designed for smoking. The only pipes I own that I have no intention of smoking is an unsmoked seven day cased set from 1967 that I bought purely as an investment...and they live somewhere at the bottom of my wardrobe, I would never dream of putting them on 'display' because they are just pipes but of course, to each his/her own ::
Regards,
Jay.
To me a pipe is nothing more than a smoke and nicotine delivery device...nothing more. If you were say a mechanic would you display a set of spanners or wrenches in a cabinet?
Yes, some pipes do look very artful in their design but they were designed for smoking. The only pipes I own that I have no intention of smoking is an unsmoked seven day cased set from 1967 that I bought purely as an investment...and they live somewhere at the bottom of my wardrobe, I would never dream of putting them on 'display' because they are just pipes but of course, to each his/her own :
:Regards,
Jay.
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