That's a recent development. If it sticks I may have to go back to being a cigaretter.
Lost Pipes
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Nice to hear most of you have few pipe losses 
I have lost many fine pipes. A nice daily rotation lot, when my suitcase was stolen, on a tour with the brass band. Didn’t care so much about the pipes though, as my late grandpa’s fine shoes were also in that suitcase! Several pipes lost in a very modest summer house, which we sold, when we bought another house. I had forgotten some pipes there and the house was sold, as is, with furniture, etc. In connection with moving, I have also lost pipes/tins, which I however found many years later. The cellar in the new house at that time had such perfect humidity (for tobacco), that the tobacco still tasted like EMP, about ten years after opening the tin? I think I still have another pipe and opened tin somewhere... Still wonder where my W.Ø. Larsen, which I bought in the then famous WØL shop, many years ago, is...
I have lost many fine pipes. A nice daily rotation lot, when my suitcase was stolen, on a tour with the brass band. Didn’t care so much about the pipes though, as my late grandpa’s fine shoes were also in that suitcase! Several pipes lost in a very modest summer house, which we sold, when we bought another house. I had forgotten some pipes there and the house was sold, as is, with furniture, etc. In connection with moving, I have also lost pipes/tins, which I however found many years later. The cellar in the new house at that time had such perfect humidity (for tobacco), that the tobacco still tasted like EMP, about ten years after opening the tin? I think I still have another pipe and opened tin somewhere... Still wonder where my W.Ø. Larsen, which I bought in the then famous WØL shop, many years ago, is...
Just one. I left it on the bumper of my car. Luckily it was a cheap MM hardwood. I still haven't learned my lesson, I put stuff on my bumper all the time.
Ah, The Treachery of Images! Hear a lot about Maigret on this site, but this is (surprisingly) the first I've seen mention of Magritte!
nope never lost a pipe. Gotten a few rehomed. Sacrificed one of them (long story) o.k. I was trying to quit smoking cigs and knew at that time I couldn't switch to over to pipes without getting stupid cigs involved. That sucked though cause the one Tyrolean that is labeled as not really for smoking, that turned out to be a great smoker. Oh well.
Never lost a pipe but instead over the years have had broken tenons/split shanks more than I would like to admit ,
Lost track of quite a few. Most recent was Sunrise full bent and Ser Jap Gepetto . The Sunrise returned by my sister and I am still searching for the Gepetto, a $37 steal. I think it could still be in the back of SUV I borrowed.
Same except for the “fairly soon” part. Good grief! I only smoke on the back porch or in the garage, and my pipes are racked in the office. How can I misplace a pipe?
Almost every time I go fishing on vilano pier I leave a cob up there. It usually gets returned to me when I see the guy that found it. This is why I only take cobs fishing now. Years ago I left a brand new Peterson Irish army up there and never got it back. I was pretty bummed for awhile
I've lost two pipes in my life, both were favorites. Both kind of bug me to this day.
One was a Tinderbox Napoli 1/2 bent billiard. The other was a Ben Wade 1/8 bent Skater.
Losing the Tinderbox was my own fault. It fell out of my coat pocket into the snow outside a restaurant, without me realizing it. By the time I reached into my pocket for it, it was too late. It wasn't an expensive pipe but I liked it a lot and being young, with funds being what they were at the time, it was upsetting.
The loss of the BW was another matter, It was stolen off the hood of my car along with a leather tobacco pouch. Again my fault....Years ago the wife and I took our toddler son to a park one Sunday afternoon, as was pretty common for us to do. I got distracted and left the pipe and pouch on the hood of the car. By the time I realized the pipe and tobacco were not on me, about 15 minutes had gone by. I then went back to the car to retrieve the pipe and found that it was gone along with the preteen, brats that were tossing a football around in the parking lot earlier. That loss was and still is, kind of irritating.
But hell, they're just pipes, right?
One was a Tinderbox Napoli 1/2 bent billiard. The other was a Ben Wade 1/8 bent Skater.
Losing the Tinderbox was my own fault. It fell out of my coat pocket into the snow outside a restaurant, without me realizing it. By the time I reached into my pocket for it, it was too late. It wasn't an expensive pipe but I liked it a lot and being young, with funds being what they were at the time, it was upsetting.
The loss of the BW was another matter, It was stolen off the hood of my car along with a leather tobacco pouch. Again my fault....Years ago the wife and I took our toddler son to a park one Sunday afternoon, as was pretty common for us to do. I got distracted and left the pipe and pouch on the hood of the car. By the time I realized the pipe and tobacco were not on me, about 15 minutes had gone by. I then went back to the car to retrieve the pipe and found that it was gone along with the preteen, brats that were tossing a football around in the parking lot earlier. That loss was and still is, kind of irritating.
But hell, they're just pipes, right?
I was thinking that I had never lost a pipe, but if theft counts, then yes, I lost two MM Hardwoods, an MM Eaton, and an MM Morgan when someone snatched a parcel that the post woman left by my door during the week I was away having surgery. It was only $40 but still. Having to reorder bugged me.
Like @mso489 I mostly smoke at home, so I don't have much opportunity to lose pipes. They are usually on a pipe rack, in my tobacco cabinet, or on my wooden smoking tray. I also keep all my current rotation cobs in a cool little rustic animal print tin can that originally contained a bunch of carmel popocorn. I did leave a cob at a friend's house during a pool party a couple years ago. That's the only pipe I've lost, and I think he might actually still have it.
You make living in LA sounds awesome...you seem to have great moments to share...always cracken me up!
Sir, excuse me... are you happy to see me or that my chruchwarden in your pocket!
Two things casinos do is (1) always win back the money and (2) video-tape or otherwise film surveillance footage of literally everything that happens on the casino floor.
I think if you'd gone to the security department the moment you couldn't find your pipe they might have been able to rewind the footage fairly easily and identified the person who took/stole it.
There's a chance that it might have been custodial staff too. They're always browsing the floor and dumping ashtrays and otherwise keeping the area clean.
Sorry for your loss. I got very drunk once several years ago and lost a nice Savinello Porto Cervo. Now I leave my fancy lighters and expensive pipes at home if there's even a remote chance I'll go anywhere that alcohol is served. I have functional "beaters" for everything in the smoker's kit. Or even if I plan to take public transportation home after work (Minneapolis has some hairy neighborhoods between work and home).
I think if you'd gone to the security department the moment you couldn't find your pipe they might have been able to rewind the footage fairly easily and identified the person who took/stole it.
There's a chance that it might have been custodial staff too. They're always browsing the floor and dumping ashtrays and otherwise keeping the area clean.
Sorry for your loss. I got very drunk once several years ago and lost a nice Savinello Porto Cervo. Now I leave my fancy lighters and expensive pipes at home if there's even a remote chance I'll go anywhere that alcohol is served. I have functional "beaters" for everything in the smoker's kit. Or even if I plan to take public transportation home after work (Minneapolis has some hairy neighborhoods between work and home).
Back in1982 I was stationed at Incirlik Air Base in Adana, Turkey. My wife was back in the states and broke her ankle and was alone with my 2 yr old son. I was able to do a family hardship move back to the states. I had an incredible meerschaum collection and some beautiful briars that I had brought with me shipped back to the states. Only one meer I physically took with me when I left because it is of the highest quality meerschaum and it is flawless. None of the other shipped pipes were ever returned. The military said that they assumed they were stolen. 31 pipes were gone. But I still have my perfect meer in its original case and it is still unsmoked. In 1985 it was appraised at $350. I have no idea what it is worth now. But at least they didn't get that one.
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So far there's only been one lost pipe and a few worn out, but it's the one that irks me the most. It was my very first pipe, that my dad gave me at 16. It was an inexpensive blue painted grabow billiard. Being young and dumb, it got misplaced or picked up by one of my brothers, never to be seen again. Since then, I've broken or worn out a few cobs and basket briars. But that one, is the most felt.
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