This one’s mostly cleaned up… softening up the goo plugging the stem in the other…
Found a Couple Pipes by Lee…
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And a spiffy de-luxe rack to mount on the dashboard of my Cadillac when I’m motoring around town…
Nice job cleaning these pipes up.
7 pointed stars even….ha I had never heard of lee pipes til a month back and can now distinguish between eras.
Great job! Now go buy a pound bag of super value cherry to smoke in them
Great job! Now go buy a pound bag of super value cherry to smoke in them
Oddly, Lee pipes are now appearing on Ebay when I hadn't noticed previously.
Even more so in the past few weeks.
Just an observation. Nothing more or less.
Are they endorsed by the mysterious man behind the curtain Briar Lee?
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. You are not in Kansas anymore. - The Wizard of Oz
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist. - Usual Suspects
Both pipes are early 7 pointed Three Stars from the late 1940s and were the ten dollar grade of the World’s Finest Pipe, the Lee Star Grade.
When a rakishly handsome British diplomat on a hurried Western trip made national headlines by locating and purchasing two cheap $15 pipes, Lord (soon to be Baron) Inverchapel scoffed at ten dollar American pipes in a Boise pipe shop.
Had he only known, that in New York City a bold visionary named Lee was producing and selling stunning pipes like those at ten dollars, he could have taken $30 and bought six Two Star Grade Pipes by Lee.
A Lee never sold by the gross in Times Square. Each one was stamped A Limited Edition.
In 1946 the top Five Star grade was the most expensive regularly cataloged pipe in the world, and beat all, a man had ever seen.
YOU BEAT ALL I’VE EVER SEEN
Rhonda Vincent and The Rage
Welcome to the cult.
You’ll not stop, because you can’t stop, and won’t want to stop Reaching For The Stars.
I check eBay every day, and two nice Lees are overpriced, and sit.
Some have obvious cracks from abuse.
But for $100 you should be able to buy three or four Lee’s with lava and bowl cake and restore them to their former glory.
I call that a small Pear, and I probably own at least a dozen if you count Pipe Makers, which are identical except for the cheaper Kaywoodie type aluminum disc front ring abs cheaper stem that betrays them.
If God had wanted man to fly......
He would have given him wings Mr. Kidd!
Wint & Kidd from Diamonds are Forever.
When the only pipe ever sold cheaper than that brand is a corn cob, how can we deny that it is the best. Right? Ha ha
I guess if number of pipes you can buy is the most important factor, then sure….
I guess if number of pipes you can buy is the most important factor, then sure….
Good work restoring these.
I would admit there is some interest generated on Lee pipes. After my whisky tasting session yesterday I found myself going to eBay and looking at Lee pipes. I did not pull the trigger though.
I would admit there is some interest generated on Lee pipes. After my whisky tasting session yesterday I found myself going to eBay and looking at Lee pipes. I did not pull the trigger though.
Briar Lee is banging the drum, and you guys are dancing!
These should be the sweetest smoking pipes from the get-go. No break in required, magical specially cure briar that is impossible to smoke bad.
I now have two. Two that needed lots of effort to bring back to life. But, with the interests in Lee Pipes now stirred, I doubt that I’ll be willing to engage in a bidding war if a nice 5 star Lee becomes available.
I have two. The one that I cleaned first (still working on the other) smokes like an older model Kaywoodie.
@telescopes : Just be careful. Both myself and Weezell discovered the same thing happened with 'cutty' pipes!