Goodwill Auction Pipes- Picture Heavy

[papipeguy]

The 4 pipes I won on the Goodwill auction finally arrived. I did the salt&Everclear cleaning and soaked the stems in OxyClean and finished with Obsidian Oil. I put a coat of Comoy's Pipe Wax on the bowls.

Willard Ajustomatic- produced at the Sparta, NC plant Dr. Grabow plant) and sold through PX's from '63-'75

Stetson Synchromatic- 4 panel made in Italy

Royal Lancer- made in London

City De Luxe- GBD second

I could not find a lot of info on these but for a total of $11.92 its not a bad haul.

 

[bobby46]

3 bucks each? I'm a cheapskate, and I would have paid more.

 

[papipeguy]

Someone here turned us on to the Goodwill site. Some real good deals there.

 

[papipeguy]

The smaller pipes may be good for flakes. This is the first time I've bid on pipes so it was a bit of a gamble and experiment.

 

[wildcat]

I picked up a lot of 11 pipes on Goodwill. Some good smokers in the lot. The only problem with gooswill is the shipping can be very high, some stores actually increase the shipping costs as the bids go higher. Nice score sir! I'm a big Willard fan!

 

[spartan]

Yup. My shipping for 4 pipes was $13.
But it's for goodwill so I feel like they have a right to charge me high shipping because I got the pipes for so cheap lol.
@papipeguy
Nice pipes. I like that Lovat with the star.
Looks like you still need to clean the tops of the bowls with some water and Q-tips, and I can't really tell from the picture but the stems still look dull. All my stems are still like that.
I need to hurry up and purchase some micromesh!

 

[papipeguy]

Spartan, I brought these to the B&M today and the owner was nice enough to polish them for me so they look better now than the pictures. For the money spent they're good enough for banging around the yard.