Is There a Name for This Ivory Smoking Pipe?

[hanzilavoka]

Does anyone know about this ivory smoking pipe?

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Is there a name for this Ivory smoking pipe? How much it cost in the market now? Any expert?
Edited by jvnshr: Title capitalization (please check Rule #9)

 

[sumusfumus]

Are you sure it's a pipe, or not a fancy cigarette holder of some sort? An ivory tusk would probably burn and crack from heat, and most certainly would stink when burned by the hot tobacco.
I'm probably wrong, and curious to read the answers.
Frank

NYC
Did a quick search. If there is a brass tip in the fat end....I think it might be for resins/hash etc?

 

[pipestud]

LOL!
Yes, there's a name for it but this is not that kind of forum.

 

[aldecaker]

That's what I was thinking, too, but I didn't want the Internet Avenger to come ridin' for my scalp again.

 

[irishearl]

Yeah, it's a cigarette holder. I have a number of old things my great uncle accumulated in the first quarter of the 20th century including 1 just like that. Also, have his kirasu and metal box from the Phillipines where he had a plantation following WWI which appeared to have held opium judging from the white residue. :lol:

 

[workman]

Was it the stud part of pipestud that answered? I was thinking the same LOL

 

[btp79]

I think it's called a "personal massage device" That hollow part in the end is for batteries not tobacco. I'd probably avoid putting it in your mouth :wink:

 

[akfilm]

As others have said, looks like a cigarette holder. I've paid $40 bucks for a nice meerschaum one, If this is actually ivory,(hard to tell by this photo), I'd pay upwards of $75 for walrus and mammoth more if it was something more rare.

An ivory tusk would probably burn and crack from heat, and most certainly would stink when burned by the hot tobacco.

I have a hard time burning ivory with a blowtorch right on it, doesn't burn easy. There is someone with a beautiful ivory straight pipe in the smoke club here.

 

[sumusfumus]

WHAT!!! I feel like a dope....and it's not the first time either.
So really...cigarette holder, hash pipe, sex aid...what is it? ))
Frank

NYC

 

[irishearl]

Frank-it's a cigarette holder. My mother used to occasionally use the 1 I've got to smoke her cigarettes. Mine is ivory. Have never been a cig smoker myself.

 

[sumusfumus]

Irish.....
Thanks.
Frank

NYC