If Money Was Not An Issue?

[misterlowercase]

I've always wanted one of Ilsted's squat facet bulldogs so I'd grab one of those,

and a Manduela too because i love how she uses colored ebonite...

...and probably a Geiger bullmoose would find its way to me as well!

Oh,

and every pre-1930 Dunhill Shell I could lay my hands on!

:D

 

[voorhees]

I'd have more collections than the Smithsonian.

 

[chalbach72]

voorhees, I like your approach.
If money certainly was not an issue, I'd buy them all. :: Just imagine.... millions of pipes at your disposal!! :nana:

 

[voorhees]

and not just pipes. I like alot of stuff.

 

[derfargin]

I would say the Talbert Goblin pipe that daimyo bought last year.

 

[maxx]

I'm so new to pipes that I don't pine after any particular Artisan pipes yet. There's some Castellos out of my reach, some Radices I hope to get, and some Dunhills I'd like. If money were no object, I'd buy those. And an expensive leather chair to smoke them in.

 

[cigrmaster]

maxx, please do not forget the silk smoking jacket you will need to smoke your pipes in. No self respecting pipe smoker can do without one of those. :lol:

 

[misterlowercase]

...and to go with the silk smoking jacket, it is imperative that you adorn the proper cap,

it would simply be uncouth and uncivilized not to.

8)

 

[stvalentine]

I am quite content with the fact that mones is an issue. Otherwise I would have more pipes than god! 8O

 

[fishfly]

If money were not an issue, I would raise my e-bay bidding limit to $25. If domestic tranquility were not an issue I'd raise my e-bay bidding limit to $50.

 

[brudnod]

Amen, Fishfly!

 

[stephenw]

If money was not a consideration, I would get Mark Tinsky to create another Black and Tan Calabash just like the one I had to sell a few years ago. It was my only Tinsky and one of my favorite pipes. It looked fantastic, it smoked well, and I miss it very much.

 

[seacaptain]

Since some of you have added historical pipes, along those lines, I'd go with the first prince created for Prince Albert (King Edward VIII). Not because I admire him as a person (I don't), I'm just interested in the first prince pipe. Here he is later in life, still smoking the pipe shape that was created for him around 1920.

 

[conlejm]

I honestly don't pine for any more pipes. I have so many nice ones. Perhaps I might pick up a Northern Briars Rox Cut in an ELX size, or a Magnum if he makes one. I've found that Ian's pipes are perfect for me, and I favor the Rox Cut finish. They are high quality and I don't suffer over a darkened rim, nor do I worry if I lose it, drop it, or break it, as they are quite affordable.
But I would like to smoke the same Capstan that Tolkien smoked, the same Three Nuns that Lewis smoked, whatever Bing Cosby, William Falkner, Somerset Maugham, and many others from bygone days smoked. How great would it be to read these authors' works while smoking what they did while they wrote them, or listen to their music while smoking what they did.

 

[phred]

If money were no object? I'd start with a Ser Jacopo Hawkbill, then break that in while I spent a good deal of time tracking down some of the reference books I've seen mentioned in here so that I could learn in more detail what distinguishes a Nordh, Ivarsson, or Chonowitsch from any other... Then I'd pick one and go for it. :D

 

[saltedplug]

Currently I am being fiscally good; but were that not the case, there are a half-dozen pipes above that would be fanning my pipe flame. I'd pick the Geiger bull-moose perhaps, and would be squarely in the midst of some desperate financial scheme to take some money from here, more from there, and perhaps borrowing the balance from the bank, using non-existent but fully traceable collateral. . .

 

[cosmicfolklore]

+1 dulgunz. If money was no issue, then I'd want a woodshop just for making my own pipes. I'd much rather just make what suits my whim than to have someone else make one. In all honesty, I prefer the ones that I have made to any of my expensive artisan pipes. Probably not because I am better than them, but many a day, I have grabbed my own bulldog over a Becker. When you've made the pipe, it just smokes much better than anything else could, IMO.

 

[freakiefrog]

If money was not an option I'd want one of Tolkins pipe.
Given that a signed set of his LOTR books recently auctioned for over 37K. I have the feeling it would be a really big investment.

 

[stanlaurel]

A really nice Jody Davis

 

[menuhin]

Not exactly answering "What would be your dream pipe and from which maker?" but I love some of those creative answers such as cosmic saying to have his own workshop and phred tracking down some works of the famous makers.
I myself am kind of contended with what I currently have, but if I am to answer this question I would push it much further. I assume "money is not an issue" = I am given *infinite* amount of money for my spending on anything related to pipes. Given these, I would expand my rotation not only to a collection but a museum, and I would expand my brain and reference books to a few curators, and there will be workshops and equipments free for everyone interested in pipe to try them out to experience making their own pipe, guided by famous makers around the world highly paid to give these workshop every other weekend (~26 top makers around the world). There will also be a PR department to keep up the communication with the mayors of major cities and legislators to ensure a better environment for pipe smokers to enjoy their tobacco while not disturbing too much of other people. And of course, there will be a team tracking down the pristine exemplars of famous makers, especially the deceased makers. Also, another team would go look for the used pipes of famous pipe smokers such as Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, J.R.R. Tolkien, etc, and their pipe will be on display with video documentaries telling the visitors the smoking habit and favorite blends and interesting facts of these famous pipe smokers. One permanent exhibition would be the briar pipe history exhibition, featuring the history of briar pipe businesses of these families and their example pipes - from Comoy / Chacom / Butz-Choquin, to Dunhill emerging while Loewe, Barling, BBB, GBD, Charatan, etc were around and how later on they all eventually merged - basically a history of their pipes with real pipe examples.
Just having a pipe dream. ::