How Does This Even Happen (Exterior Bowl Char)?

[Humblepipe]

I stumble on to this very rarely... Pronounced char on the exterior of the bowl, sometimes on the stem. I always wonder how this happens. Bored pipe smoker touching the exterior of their pie with a lighter/match over time? Theories? This happens to be a 1906 WDC Columbia Class pipe...

 

[doug535]

Laid in an ashtray shared with cigar/cigarette smokers?

 

[Humblepipe]

Laid in an ashtray shared with cigar/cigarette smokers?

Dogs and cats living together?

 

[anotherbob]

drunk lighting?

 

[UB 40]

Driver doesn’t give a shit anymore?

 

[Chasing Embers]

My pipes and cigarettes share ashtrays so I could see that happening.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Oh char? I thought this was going to be about WTF that oC6 is all about. Is that some sort of union thing?

 

[Humblepipe]

Oh char? I thought this was going to be about WTF that oC6 is all about. Is that some sort of union thing?

'06 as in 1906... College Class pipe. Just say'n, someone could have been more careful with such an artifact!

 

[warren]

Perhaps it was treated as a smoking tool and not an artifact. What makes it an artifact is that someone thinks it is. To the original owner perhaps it was ... well, just a tool which he derived some pleasure from hopefully.

 

[solideogloria86]

I stumble on to this very rarely... Pronounced char on the exterior of the bowl, sometimes on the stem. I always wonder how this happens. Bored pipe smoker touching the exterior of their pie with a lighter/match over time? Theories? This happens to be a 1906 WDC Columbia Class pipe...

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Could be lighting it off an oil or gas lamp or other similarly large open flame.

 

[Humblepipe]

Perhaps it was treated as a smoking tool and not an artifact. What makes it an artifact is that someone thinks it is. To the original owner perhaps it was ... well, just a tool which he derived some pleasure from hopefully.

For sure...

 

[ARTOPUT]

I am curious if you plan on trying to restore the surface and if so how you plan to go about it with the inlay of the class year. If so I hope you post your progress to watch how it goes.

 

[Humblepipe]

I am curious if you plan on trying to restore the surface and if so how you plan to go about it with the inlay of the class year. If so I hope you post your progress to watch how it goes.

This one will get listed as is...

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Laid in an ashtray shared with cigar/cigarette smokers?

Bingo!

 

[doug535]

Dogs and cats living together?

We do the cats and bird living together thing.

 

[sablebrush52]

Might have used a lit piece of coal to light the pipe as was sometimes used in times gone by. Left propped too near a burning candle? We're talking about very young people here. Their brains haven't completed development to age 27, 28.

Or, could have been a later dumbass. Not like there's a shortage.

 

[alaskanpiper]

I will never know. But it does.

 

[ARTOPUT]

I will never know. But it does.
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I think it is a little past broke in for sure. But boy the whopper of stories you could come up with about how you used this pipe to save some lady from a burning house or such.

 

[Elric]

I don't know about the timeframe but I used to read that folks lit their pipes at gas lamps outside of buildings. That or a gas stove would certainly be an inexact enough application of fire to result in something like this.

 

[fireground_piper]

I will never know. But it does.
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Wow. Has that been cleaned up yet?