Thinking about it today, I've been missing some of my pipes. I've been smoking a pipe for almost 4 years now, and I have 3 pipes that I can't find. That makes it about 1 pipe a year almost. A Dr. Grabow lark, a Capri, and a corn cob. Good thing for PAD huh? How many pipes do you guys lose annually? Lol
How many pipes have you lost?
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So far I have one, a 4 digit Kaywoodie bent bulldog. I've been putting it aside for years because the stem was overclocked. There was a thread about fixing it here a few months ago and it gave me the motivation to try to fix it. Now I can't find it for the life of me.
Two that I can think of. I still believe they are in this house somewhere. Both, oddly enough are Dunhills. If I find them, my Dunhill collection will be two!
Mike S.
Mike S.
Lost three pipes I got 50 years ago, one was a cracked Dunny, but of great personal value, the other a black blast bent billiard Pete military mount, and the third was a smooth Barling billiard. Since I resumed a few years ago, none. (that I can recall!)
When I moved from Michigan to N.Carolina.I had a box of lower end pipes that got lost. I've never found it.
None, although I've misplaced some. I have a bad habit of falling asleep at my worktable; on waking and learning a prize pipe is missing, I check the floor where I fell asleep, even the round file next to the desk. Invariably it's in one of those two places.
My first pipe was from Racine and Laramie in Old Town San Diego. I haven't seen it in a while. If it isn't in a box somewhere it got lost over the course of four PCS moves. My second pipe came from a pipe shop in Bahrain. It was a great pocket pipe that I smoked all the time. I had a bad habit of taking it out to the bars while I was stationed there, and it no doubt wound up in someone else's possession after I left it at a bar on a blurry night. I can account for every other pipe I have obtained. Not hard given there are only three briars I still have and a cob I just gave away to a budding piper.
Do broken pipes count? Many years ago I used to play a lot of pool. I had a bad habit of keeping a pipe in my left trouser pocket. Every once in a while, as I leaned against the table to take a shot, I would hear SNAP, and think, oh shit not again!
I love to reminisce about the pipes I lost over the years. There was a Pete K&P stamped Churchwarden that was a gift from my late wife, back in the 80's. I lost it in 2005. And I had a meerschaum cheroot holder, that had a carving of a horse at a trot atop it. It was huge, another gift. That one went missing around 1995. There were a couple of 70's vintage Yellowbowls and Dr. Grabow's that I lost back in the 80's too.
Then the ones that got away, like a Missourri Meerschaum bent bulldog, that I gave to my son. He lost it. And a beautiful freehand Edwards from the seventies that cracked right down the bowl in mid-smoke. I tossed it in a dumpster.
Dropped a nice LePeltier bent billiard, all white, with an extra large bowl. Shattered into a million peices. That was a great pipe too, and they don't make that shape anymore.
I still have 110 pipes, however. So don't mourn for me, lol.
Then the ones that got away, like a Missourri Meerschaum bent bulldog, that I gave to my son. He lost it. And a beautiful freehand Edwards from the seventies that cracked right down the bowl in mid-smoke. I tossed it in a dumpster.
Dropped a nice LePeltier bent billiard, all white, with an extra large bowl. Shattered into a million peices. That was a great pipe too, and they don't make that shape anymore.
I still have 110 pipes, however. So don't mourn for me, lol.
It wasn't so much lost as destroyed, I was sitting on the back deck smoking a new MM Legend when for some reason I was called away. I set it on the table and went inside, later it started to rain, it kept rain all the next day. When I realized I left my pipe outside the damage was done.
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Since actually smoking a pipe, I've never lost one. However, I used to "dabble" and only periodically smoke a pipe. There was one tiny bowled pipe that I used to keep in my glove box that I have not seen since I decided to pick the pipe up seriously. But, it's only been a year and a half since then, so I have plenty of time to discover that I can lose a pipe.
I have "lost" a few pipes to the fishing gods, chainsaw, and underfoot. I have never lost a pipe as in, I can't find it.
I know where and under what circumstances I "lost" a pipe. This is why I take only cobs, the "disposables of pipes", fishing, camping, gardening, etc.
I know where and under what circumstances I "lost" a pipe. This is why I take only cobs, the "disposables of pipes", fishing, camping, gardening, etc.
lost one 50 years ago & have never gotten over it - given to me by my father - a very large heavy rhodesian large 2" outer diameter bowl engraved all around with an incredible stem - so good tasting i could taste the tobacco i last smoked in the pipe whether it was erinmore , 3 nuns or london dock - the best burley at the time .- left it at a cousins friend's house called for the pipe " no pipe here " yeh !!! - it still eats away at me.
One Dr. Grabow Omega I left on a tee box at a golf course. I left a couple at my bar, but they all know me there and I recovered them next time in. Great place, good people, shuffleboard haven as well
Smoking allowed!
Smoking allowed!
I have only lost one pipe, it was a (MM Country Gentleman) cob, and I lost it somewhere while I was on travel, working in the desert of Arizona.
I don't mourn the loss of the cob quite as much as I do the tortoise shell Forever Stem that was attached to it.
Oh well, easy come, easy go...
I don't mourn the loss of the cob quite as much as I do the tortoise shell Forever Stem that was attached to it.
Oh well, easy come, easy go...
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