Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
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I was surprised by this one:
Granted, these Leeds era Ben Wades don't turn up often and they are exceptional pipes, but they've never been at all pricey. I bought mine at around $75 apiece.
VINTAGE BEN WADE 'SELECTED GRAIN' 4 W SMOKERS PIPE - MADE IN LEEDS, ENGLAND | eBay
STEM - BEN WADE - "SELECTED GRAIN" - MADE IN LEEDS ENGLAND - 4 W - HEART CIPHER (PICTURED). A VERY NICE QUALITY SMOKERS PIPE. THE PIPE HAS A BEAUTIFUL BURR WOOD GRAIN FINISH. ALL IN ALL A VERY NICE QUALITY PIPE & NO DOUBT A NICE ADDITION TO A COLLECTION.
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Granted, these Leeds era Ben Wades don't turn up often and they are exceptional pipes, but they've never been at all pricey. I bought mine at around $75 apiece.
Yes I was confused by that as well. Its counterpart cost me all of $65.I was surprised by this one:
VINTAGE BEN WADE 'SELECTED GRAIN' 4 W SMOKERS PIPE - MADE IN LEEDS, ENGLAND | eBay
STEM - BEN WADE - "SELECTED GRAIN" - MADE IN LEEDS ENGLAND - 4 W - HEART CIPHER (PICTURED). A VERY NICE QUALITY SMOKERS PIPE. THE PIPE HAS A BEAUTIFUL BURR WOOD GRAIN FINISH. ALL IN ALL A VERY NICE QUALITY PIPE & NO DOUBT A NICE ADDITION TO A COLLECTION.www.ebay.com
Granted, these Leeds era Ben Wades don't turn up often and they are exceptional pipes, but they've never been at all pricey. I bought mine at around $75 apiece.
[Edit] One possibility that had occurred to me at the time is that the heart cipher was shown clearly in the photographs. Although it's not rare per se, it's infrequently shown in photographs where detail is not a priority, so someone may have thought it was a rare stamping.
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Harris' hopes for a free fall in prices doesn't appear to be happening. This pipe went for quite a respectable price:
The short stem isn't original.
BARLING ANTIQUE LIBRARY PIPE BRIAR STERLING SILVER LONG ALBATROSS STEM CASE 1885 | eBay
This is for a fabulous antique Barlings albatross and sterling silver pipe in its original case from 1885. The briar bowl has a sterling silver ferrule with its original long Albatross stem fitted. The stem has matching sterling silver mounts on both ends and two mouth pieces again with sterling...
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The short stem isn't original.
The exterior of the rim was quite damaged. Both the front and back have burn damage, the back being sanded away, leaving a flat spot.
How do you view prices on completed eBay auctions? If I recall correctly, I remember back in the 2000s you could view the ending bid, but now all I see is, “This item is no longer available,” with no price. When I go on sellers like Pipestud’s eBay page, I don’t see a section with completed auctions. It would be nice to see what the pipes sold for.
You can do an advanced search for completed items. It only goes so far back though; I'm not sure how far.
There're other websites that archive sold prices but I'm not too familiar with them.
Thanks for the tip. Do they show the prices they sold for? In the link in your post and Jesse’s post no price is shown, just that the auction has ended.
I do see the winning prices, in both the auction linked by Jessie and in my search for complete pipestud auctions: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nk...sasl=pipestud&_sop=12&_dmd=1&_ipg=50&_fosrp=1. You don't see them?
Final was 82.30 plus 8 bucks shipping. I was expecting more because it was bent. But I didn't look to close at the condition of the exterior bowl. Strong bent Barlings Make pipes are not common like the pot shape. About as common as the cursive Custom-Bilt strong bent shapes, like 3/4 bent +.
Blue Riband prices are still holding...$460.00!
EXCELLENT! Comoy's BLUE RIBAND CLASSIC PRINCE English Estate Pipe MUST SEE! | eBay
ThisBEAUTIFUL, wonderfully preserved high grade has a pristine, pristine 3 PIECE C stem that shines like glass. The bowl is in fantastic condition, and the like new chamber is smooth, round, and super clean.
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The link I gave for the Barling library pipe does show the final price, which was $1256.51.
This went for IMO an astronomical sum! Four times of what I saw a double one dot sold for in eBay last time I watched.
I was bidding on this, but went higher than what I wanted it for. Always a next time!!!
I was bidding on this, but went higher than what I wanted it for. Always a next time!!!
SASIENI SPECIALLY SELECTED PATENT DOUBE ONE DOT PIPE 1920's RARE | eBay
MARKED: SASIENI SPECIALLY SELECTED PATENT. 1 PIPE OR ENTIRE COLLECTIONS. MAKE SURE TO SUPER SIZE THE PHOTOS FOR A BETTER VIEW. WEIGHT: 1.2oz.
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Harris' hopes for a drop in pipe prices seems to be safely DOA. Take this recently concluded auction for this Barling 251 in a special grade:
It went for a cool $800.
I own one of these which I bought about 4, maybe 5, years ago. Mine is crisp, super clean, and is also a special grade.
I paid $250 for it.
Generally these go for between $250 and, maybe, $450, tops.
I had spotting the bidding duel about a week ago. The bidding is interesting, especially when you look at the number of bid retractions one of the duelers has, 89 in the past 6 months. That doesn't sound legit to me.
Then the pipe sits for several days at $710 before a new bidder jumps in with 15 minutes left in the auction.
WTH?
Were I one of the two who had originally bid this pipe into crazy land I would have been ever so grateful to have gotten out from under whatever insanity had propelled me to overbid that much, but no, one of the duelers keeps going. And when the hammer falls, the pipe is at a lofty $800.
I could understand this if this model was a rarity, but this particular model was very popular, and I've seen a lot of them. It's a good smoker, but $800 worth of smoker? BTW, I like the 252, with the saddle stem, much better.
BARLING'S MAKE SPECIAL 251 EXEXEL PIPE PRE-TRANS CRISP | eBay
MARKED: BARLING'S MAKE SPECIAL 251 EXEXEL. 1 PIPE OR ENTIRE COLLECTIONS. MAKE SURE TO SUPER SIZE THE PHOTOS FOR A BETTER VIEW. LENGTH: 6 1/2". WEIGHT: 2.2oz.
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It went for a cool $800.
I own one of these which I bought about 4, maybe 5, years ago. Mine is crisp, super clean, and is also a special grade.
I paid $250 for it.
Generally these go for between $250 and, maybe, $450, tops.
I had spotting the bidding duel about a week ago. The bidding is interesting, especially when you look at the number of bid retractions one of the duelers has, 89 in the past 6 months. That doesn't sound legit to me.
Then the pipe sits for several days at $710 before a new bidder jumps in with 15 minutes left in the auction.
WTH?
Were I one of the two who had originally bid this pipe into crazy land I would have been ever so grateful to have gotten out from under whatever insanity had propelled me to overbid that much, but no, one of the duelers keeps going. And when the hammer falls, the pipe is at a lofty $800.
I could understand this if this model was a rarity, but this particular model was very popular, and I've seen a lot of them. It's a good smoker, but $800 worth of smoker? BTW, I like the 252, with the saddle stem, much better.
I was involved in helping a friend sell one of these pipes ~ 2014 (not the same pipe, I just checked). We sold it for half again as much. Chinese buyers were much more involved in buying collectable English pipes at the time.This went for IMO an astronomical sum! Four times of what I saw a double one dot sold for in eBay last time I watched.
I was bidding on this, but went higher than what I wanted it for. Always a next time!!!
SASIENI SPECIALLY SELECTED PATENT DOUBE ONE DOT PIPE 1920's RARE | eBay
MARKED: SASIENI SPECIALLY SELECTED PATENT. 1 PIPE OR ENTIRE COLLECTIONS. MAKE SURE TO SUPER SIZE THE PHOTOS FOR A BETTER VIEW. WEIGHT: 1.2oz.www.ebay.com
The one you helped a friend sell, was it a “Specially Selected” too? With the box?
(I just saw that you said it was not the same pipe. Too early in the morning).