I have a number of meerschaums. An el cheapo, but still decent smoking, I got of P&C. My father-in-law gave me his old meerschaum, had to clean a LOT of cake out of it and deoxidize the stem and the stem is still loose, but it smokes well. My in-laws also picked me up a fairly basic one in Turkey a few months back. However, the two prides of my collection are a smooth Baki and a leaf design Altinook. After looking at those Storient pipes, I'm thinking I might need to add one to the small collection.