Horn Stems, the good, the bad, the ugly facts?

[sablebrush52]

Actually looks like the pipe in xrundog's post above.

Do you mean the bowl or the stem? That stem is definitely horn.

 

[irishearl]

Sable, picture his pipe but with a stem which is solid yellowish cream in color. Mine is a S&G bulldog.

 

[sablebrush52]

Sable, picture his pipe but with a stem which is solid yellowish cream in color. Mine is a S&G bulldog.

Do you have a picture of it? I'd like to see it.

 

[irishearl]

Wish I could Sable. But am way too tech-impaired to accomplish it.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Sure it's not amber?

 

[irishearl]

Yeah, looks nothing like amber.

 

[jvnshr]

Wish I could Sable. But am way too tech-impaired to accomplish it.

Can you at least email me the picture of the pipe? I will post it for you.

 

[newbroom]

I had not seen this thread, and own a horned stemmed pipe, so...I do smoke this old pipe from time to time and I think it is from around 1910. It has bone screw in mortise/tennon, which is rather brittle looking, so I don't take it apart.

cpf is in the logo, which is for colossal pipe factory.

 

[armonts]

Normally you can not confuse the horn with amber or something else.

For French pipes in general it was blonde horn, we still found sometimes on pipes 70/80, and not necessarily expensive pipes …
It's a good, trouble-free material that ages much better than ebonite!

The only small drawback is for big bites that eventually crush / mark a little beak especially if it has been wet for a long time.
I have 2 or 3 old pipes with horn pipe, remained impeccable! ::

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

As in the past Quite a few French manufactured (low-medium price level) pipes were offered with horn stems,today there is this Ropp brand whom still keep using horn,but as for me,I'm not too found of it ,mainly because of buttons on those feel clumsy and big yet often these stems are somewhat thicker, I have had these horn stem pipes in the past,now all them are gone,,

 

[npod]

@paulie66scandinavian, my experience is similar. I had a French pipe with bone stem, but it was bulky and the button was large. I gave it away.

 

[irishearl]

npod, if your bone-stemmed pipe was an oldie like mine am guessing it's button was orific as mine was which might make it large. Size of the button makes no difference to me as I don't clench.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Won't buy no pipe which has horn /bone stem fitted,thats for sure,

 

[sablebrush52]

It's a good, trouble-free material that ages much better than ebonite!

Horn is a great material, but it's not longer lasting than ebonite. They both need care or they both develop problems. If you can show me a 147 year old horn stem that's in as good condition as this 147 year old vulcanite stem:

then you can say that horn will last as long as ebonite.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Sable, This look simply fabulous,ce de la France'I guess,I just ordered pretty similar looking Ropp Algerian Briar coming on my way but with even smaller bowl size,the shape was called acorn or something like that.

 

[sablebrush52]

Sable, This look simply fabulous,ce de la France'I guess,I just ordered pretty similar looking Ropp Algerian Briar coming on my way but with even smaller bowl size,the shape was called acorn or something like that.

The bowl was cut and shaped in France, most likely St Claude. The finishing and mounting are English, done by Barling in 1872. It's actually quite a large pipe with a length of about 10".

 

[irishearl]

That's 1 great looking pipe Sable. My 1900 S&G bowl and stem are both in great shape.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

My eyes just popped out of my head% love that pipe, Jesse!!

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Here’s the only horn stem I have