If you're looking for antique NOS briars DC, check out
www.markenpipes.com
A 100+yo German pipe shop closed that must have had thousands of NOS pipes.
The dealer must have bought the lot and was selling them on ebay.
Thanks to postal restrictions due to the scamdemic, they moved operations to the U.S.
Postage from Germany was only $12usd for up to eight pipes so I bought quite a few. [Professional and efficient service. Highly recommended]
Here's some examples [sellers pics]
They're well crafted and all of these French and German antique pipes take a cleaner through to the draught hole, even the no brand Bruyere Garantie.
The French Skippy pipes are very good smokers and well crafted.
This little Skippy Prince is my favourite.
This lot I won for a ridiculously low price of around $45 IIRC.
A 1980s Venini Apple.
These are very good smokers. I bought several Venini of various shapes. 6 of the 7 take a pipe cleaner through to the draught hole. Probably because they're not a well known brand there was not a lot of interest so I paid an average of $35 each.
Not sure what stock is left at MarkenPipes but last time I looked at their website they still had similar examples for sale.