I see what you are saying but I'm not sure it's true. I'd be more than happy to never show my pipes to anybody and would guess that most people that buy high end pipes do so for their own pleasure, not to show off.
If Only I Had A Spare $2.5K...
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so for a very limited pool of people. A pool of one. I am just saying I don't often see the appeal of a lot of them. The thing is I do get that when you go high end on price limited appeal isn't an issue. As long as one person with the money likes it and can't find something similar for less it can be sold.
I think I caught that in college....
I won't even own a suit but I pay more for pipes than I will clothes.?
Was that after an S. Bang with a bunch of coeds?
well it's pretty hard to get a good smoke from a shirt or even a pair of pants.
I'm with Harris. But 8 Jack Howell pipes, is like every one of them better. Or 6 Jose Rubio.
She really masters lines and proportions, and this pipe is no exception.
Actually I was thinking on that pipe in the picture that the bowl was oddly small in comparison to the shank.
“holistically conquer” is an unusual phrase.
Nice shape, but NOT at the price of 8-10 nicely commissioned pipes.
Nice shape, but NOT at the price of 8-10 nicely commissioned pipes.
Never started a camp fire with gasoline have you.??
To each his own. Nice pipe, but for $2500 I could probably get a Bill Shalosky, Ill Duca, Micah Redmond, and a Scottie Piersel.
O.M.G. I think I'm arriving.Make friends with Ron Powell.
For anyone living in the U.S. the American retailers usually make sense, the hassle of import can be a gamble.
For anyone outside the U.S. American retailers are equivalent to buying from a boutique shop.
For the last four years almost all of my pipes have come from the U.K.
Edit: And then we have a Cob costing $70 ($50 without tax) Corn Cob Pipe, Wizard Cobbit w. Acrylic Stem - Missouri Meerschaum, Corn Cob Pipes - The Danish Pipe Shop - https://www.danishpipeshop.com/d/Corn-Cob-Pipe-Wizard-Cobbit-w-Acrylic-Stem-i12363.html
I guess it still holds true that for most people anything foreign is perceived as exotic.
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Ron does good work. He sent me out a big blasted bent billiard last year.?
Then again, there are many amazing modern carvers out there as well.
At a past Richmond VA show, I observed some pretty well-heeled Philly pipe club members who favor S. Bangs looking over several Manduela pipes shown by a vendor. They showed great interest and one was purchased (I think they were around $2k at the time, for an estate! I guess it just depends on your comfort level.
According to my back of the envelope calculations, that equals:
156 $16 Missouri Meerschaums
78 $32 Grabows
42 $60 Rossi's
25 $100 Estate pipes
20 $125 Savinelli's
227 Tins of $11 tobacco which equals 28.375 lbs
833 Ounces of bulk tobacco which equals 52 lbs
Or a nice set of Michelins for my F150, new tires for both my boat trailers, my travel trailer and have money left to buy two of the four tires for my 5th wheel
Hmmm, I wonder what I would do....
156 $16 Missouri Meerschaums
78 $32 Grabows
42 $60 Rossi's
25 $100 Estate pipes
20 $125 Savinelli's
227 Tins of $11 tobacco which equals 28.375 lbs
833 Ounces of bulk tobacco which equals 52 lbs
Or a nice set of Michelins for my F150, new tires for both my boat trailers, my travel trailer and have money left to buy two of the four tires for my 5th wheel
Hmmm, I wonder what I would do....
True that, true that, also not going to buy a Wizard Cobbit Corn Cobb pipe straight from Missouri Meerschaum for $36 plus Tax.
However, I would purchase the most exotic and intoxicating
3-Pipe Cobbit Collection Gift Set
$72.99Out of stock
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If the damn thing wasn't out of stock. The email I got from MM said they are backlogged due to the Danes.
Wanna know how she gets those prices?
She asks...
She asks...
You guys keep running it down because it costs so much. Of course, it isn't worth 5 times the best of any other carvers pipes but their price will decrease to 50% the instant you buy it. Hers will still command full price. So come clean, fellas and admit that what you are really saying (usually) is that you can't afford it or the wrath you'd face on the home.
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