Corncob Shape Help

[peteguy]

i assume this is not the popular corndog shape or is it? Any idea on when this shape was made?

 

[ray47]

That's the "Acorn " shape and can now only be found on the MM Cobbit Series Shire pipes.

Shire Cobbit Corn Cob Pipe – Missouri Meerschaum

The Shire Cobbit Corn Cob Pipe from Missouri Meerschaum is one of two mid-sized pipes in the Cobbit Collection of our churchwarden style pipes.

corncobpipe.com

 

[Chasing Embers]

That's the "Acorn " shape and can now only be found on the MM Cobbit Series Shire pipes.

Shire Cobbit Corn Cob Pipe – Missouri Meerschaum

The Shire Cobbit Corn Cob Pipe from Missouri Meerschaum is one of two mid-sized pipes in the Cobbit Collection of our churchwarden style pipes.

corncobpipe.com

Prior to the cobbits, that was their Great Dane egg.

 

[mso489]

I like churchwardens and other long stems, but I think I like the cob acorn bowl better with the shorter stem. It sets off the interesting shape better, to me. I'm ambivalent about theme pipes. I somewhat feel we are each our own themes and don't have to borrow, or I'm just cantankerous.

 

[BROBS]

I like churchwardens and other long stems, but I think I like the cob acorn bowl better with the shorter stem. It sets off the interesting shape better, to me. I'm ambivalent about theme pipes. I somewhat feel we are each our own themes and don't have to borrow, or I'm just cantankerous.

SO YOU FEEL THAT YOU ARE YOUR OWN GANDALF?

 

[peteguy]

Thank you for the info. The hunt conitnues....

 

[didimauw]

Looks like it will turn into a beautiful pipe in the upcoming years!
Let's face it, new cobs are ugly. They only get purdier with age!

 

[peteguy]

These older Cobs are much better made (at least to me). Beefier cob, much nicer stem, this one even has a nice gold band and not the tiny brass thing the newer ones have..

 

[mso489]

Something went awry with the pipe cob crop about ten years ago and the bowls got quite puny, but since then, I think the crops have improved and the bowls have gotten bigger again. I think the poor years were a stretch of drought. My recent special edition pipes with acrylic stems have had good diameter bowls, deep too.

 

[Chasing Embers]

the bowls got quite puny

Do tell.


2015

 

[jonasclark]

Yes, "Great Dane" Egg. The early "Great Dane" pipes came in several shapes that were very, very vaguely Danish, but that soon switched to the Egg and Spool.