Einstein's Pipes

[PutteringPiper]

For some time now I've been searching for a Custombilt Owl. Finally found one for sale today. Unfortunately it was allegedly owned by Albert Einstein:

Lot - Albert Einstein's (9) Pipes and Menorah Pipe Holder

www.auctionzip.com

 

[mso489]

Sure. They are priced as historical artifacts more than pipes. So the collectors of such bid each other up to the moon. E=MC squared.

 

[Casual]

And it looks like a combination of oddballs not often smoked alongside one smoked so much it’s split almost in twain. What an odd lot.

 

[ashdigger]

I’m not saying those aren’t Einstein’s pipes, but I doubt those are Einstein’s pipes.

I’m also unwilling to believe a Certificate of Authenticity seals the deal.

Good luck to whoever decides to buy them.

 

[5star]

Note that the mass of those pipes increase to infinity, as they approach the speed of light. This likely makes them uncomfortable as clincers.

 

[Chasing Embers]

This likely makes them uncomfortable as clincers.

Hold my beer.

 

[sasquatch]

LOL the thinnest of theoretical prevenances.

 

[PutteringPiper]

LOL the thinnest of theoretical prevenances.

And that is what pisses me off. The pipe I've been looking for caught up in some Maybe-Couldbe auction BS. ????

 

[sablebrush52]

While the Menorah shaped pipe stand is interesting, collection presents something of a pile of crap. It's possible that Einstein bought crap pipes, though images of him smoking a pipe show fairly standard pipes.

The "provenance" is really non existent. The seller's father brought home this crap collection between 25 and 35 years after Einstein's death and didn't start work at Princeton until 14 years after Einstein fell off the perch.

Since the story goes that the houses where faculty lived were cleared out after the occupant departed, why would these pipes still be hanging around 25 to 35 years later?

There is nothing in the "provenance" that directly ties this crap set of pipes to Einstein, and it doesn't take an Einstein to figure that out.

All I can add is that the gullible nitwits bidding on this assortment of crap are certainly no Einsteins.

 

[jpmcwjr]

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
- Albert Einstein

 

[telescopes]

There is nothing about these pipes to suggest Einstein. Here is a man who where nearly identical clothes and cared little for spending time making choices that had little or nothing to do with mathematics. These pipes "require" choices and there is nothing about them that resembles what we see in a man who chose to smoke Revelation as his main tobacco. These pipes are NOT a revelation.

 

[Chasing Embers]

These pipes are NOT a revelation.

Unless purchased during one of his DMT trips.

 

[elvishrunes]

If I saw those in an antique store, I wouldn’t buy any of them…

 

[crawdad]

This is all relative…

 

[unadoptedlamp]

Even Einstein was no Einstein, some of the time.

"Upon joining the Montreal Pipe Smokers Club in 1950, he reportedly said: 'I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs.'"

Or maybe it was just because he was surrounded by Canadians at the time of the alleged remark...

 

[bullet08]

I'm not saying it's his pipe, but it sorta remind me of his hair style.

 

[chopper]

Get your bids in quick; only 3 days to go for some really crappy pipes that were found in a room once used by Einstein.

Bidding has reached $9,500. [Estimated to sell at $50,000-$60,000]
Shame it's not a live auction; I'd be sitting at the back of the auction room, chuckling louder with each raised bid.
[And it would be hard to resist offering the 'winner' a harbourfront Opera House at reasonable cost]

 

[saltedplug]

The seller would have to pay me to smoke any of his pipes. The lie is so apparent.

 

[scloyd]

The "provenance" is really non existent. The seller's father brought home this crap collection between 25 and 35 years after Einstein's death and didn't start work at Princeton until 14 years after Einstein fell off the perch.

Since the story goes that the houses where faculty lived were cleared out after the occupant departed, why would these pipes still be hanging around 25 to 35 years later?

Einstein's step daughter, Margot, continued to live in the house after Einstein died until her death in 1986. That's probably when the house was cleared out. Still doesn't prove the pipes were Alberts.

 

[sablebrush52]

Einstein's step daughter, Margot, continued to live in the house after Einstein died until her death in 1986. That's probably when the house was cleared out. Still doesn't prove the pipes were Alberts.

Yeah, I caught that after I posted. Here's what one would need to provide a provenance, an image of Einstein smoking the pipe(s) in question, an image of the rack with those pipes taken in the home, or some sort of inventory taken at the time the house was emptied. Short of that, it's a "he said".