Ben Wade Selected Grain Panel
I hope whoever won this chokes on it.
I'm on a wild string of bad luck on this fool website.
I hope whoever won this chokes on it.
I'm on a wild string of bad luck on this fool website.
Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
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Wow! Looking at the bidding it's clear that someone REALLY wanted this pipe!
Yikes!Ouch!
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Early Ben Wade "Selected Grain" Leeds 277 Panel Pipe | eBay
I haven't been fortunate enough to get my hands on a lot of Ben Wade's earlier work and I must say that I'm impressed! My restorations tend to be on the exterior of the pipe. Interiors WILL NEED TO BE CLEANED by the new owner unless otherwise noted.www.ebay.com
I certainly did. Just so happens someone else had more money to throw at it.
Again, hope they choke on it.
Just means something better is coming.
Here’s a pipe I grabbed. I have zero regrets.
1892 Pete. It’s real. Unlike the reproduction they sold at over half the price. Some idiot is bragging about a stummel in need of a stem for a pipe that worth less than half what they paid.
That’s the crack equivalent of buying meth instead.
1892 Pete. It’s real. Unlike the reproduction they sold at over half the price. Some idiot is bragging about a stummel in need of a stem for a pipe that worth less than half what they paid.
That’s the crack equivalent of buying meth instead.
@ashdigger i still can’t believe you got an old patent with not only a Birmingham anchor, but also H&J mark.
Enjoy your pipe in bliss and good health.
Enjoy your pipe in bliss and good health.
I feel your pain.Ouch!
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Early Ben Wade "Selected Grain" Leeds 277 Panel Pipe | eBay
I haven't been fortunate enough to get my hands on a lot of Ben Wade's earlier work and I must say that I'm impressed! My restorations tend to be on the exterior of the pipe. Interiors WILL NEED TO BE CLEANED by the new owner unless otherwise noted.www.ebay.com
Kind of hard to ignore was the Sunday auction of what may well be the most pristine, virtually unsmoked example of a 1926 Dunhill LC (with both a completely legible reg number on its stem and perfectly crisp nomenclature) ever to emerge "from the wild." It is moreover a lovely example (perfectly proportioned, with a beautiful shell blast), well worth (if anything is) the $3300 it fetched. 
1926 Dunhill "Shell" LC Swan Neck Rare England Pat 1341418/20 Briar Estate Pipe | eBay
To Many Dunhill collectors the LC needs no introduction. This one is dated 1926. The 1926 LC was more of an egg shape, gracefully a little narrower at the top. While the LC is rare, it is rarer to find one in such perfect condition that has had such little use as you can see in the closeup of...
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Kind of hard to ignore was the Sunday auction of what may well be the most pristine, virtually unsmoked example of a 1926 Dunhill LC (with both a completely legible reg number on its stem and perfectly crisp nomenclature) ever to emerge "from the wild." It is moreover a lovely example (perfectly proportioned, with a beautiful shell blast), well worth (if anything is) the $3300 it fetched. View attachment 167413View attachment 167414
1926 Dunhill "Shell" LC Swan Neck Rare England Pat 1341418/20 Briar Estate Pipe | eBay
To Many Dunhill collectors the LC needs no introduction. This one is dated 1926. The 1926 LC was more of an egg shape, gracefully a little narrower at the top. While the LC is rare, it is rarer to find one in such perfect condition that has had such little use as you can see in the closeup of...www.ebay.com
A deadman’s pipe for sure, destined to pass from hand to hand as one owner croaks and a new one succeeds him. Perhaps when smoking has been entirely suppressed it will wind up on a plinth in a museum somewhere, boxed in bulletproof glass and bearing a tasteful label executed by hand in calligraphy. Or perhaps its original purpose will be wholly forgotten and it will be worshipped as a mysterious and awesome fetish by generations yet unborn. Or perhaps it will be tossed in a dumpster by the owner’s heirs, acting out of resentment, ignorance, or malice.
What's the fun of being an heir, if you cannot finally allow yourself to act out/cast off/free yourself of all those interminably long decades of bottled-up resentment, ignorance and malice. . . ? I could go on.
A legendary vaudeville act, Resentment, Ignorance, & Malice played the Palace many times, and performed twice before George V in London between the wars.
That's not a finish--the pipe wasn't restored (the seller told me). What you're pointing out is the filth of ages, for lack of a better word.
Re:The Ben Wade- What might cause the odd "finish" on this panel?
Pretty much any liquid that's mildly acidic (vinegar, for example) that isn't wiped off quickly enough will leave a bleached spot like that.
Let's see....
-- English pipe
-- Fish 'n' Chips is popular in England
-- Vinegar is a big part of The Fish 'n' Chips Experience
-- Fish 'n' Chips is not eaten with silverware
-- 85% of earth's population is right handed
-- The bleached area is where a thumb usually contacts a bowl when right handedness is in play
Only Jon Guss and his superhuman historical research skills can ever know what ACTUALLY happened of course (he'll be able to tell you the day it happened, and whether the pipe's owner was married or not as well as the name of his dog), but until then, something like the vinegar scenario will have to do.