Lowest Price Briars

[mso489]

What is the least you have ever paid for a new briar pipe, and how did that pipe work out? Remember, briars

only. No other woods, and no cobs, clay pipes, Brylon, etc., only briars. I guess we have to have two categories,

long ago, and in the past five years. Long ago, I bought a Tinder Box pipe for about $16, and I still have it and it

smokes great. It's a bent pot with a saddle stem, and it's a sitter, a very unusual and pretty pipe. Recently, I

bought a Chapuis-Comoy zulu for just over $30; it seems to be breaking in really well. I'm not sure how they

do briar pipes of this quality at this price, but I'm glad to get in on it.

 

[captainsousie]

If you count pipes that are unsmoked estates, I recently got 2 unsmoked Wally Frank briar pipes and paid $20 for the pair. The one is a meerschaum lined briar so that one may not count.

 

[puffy]

This is a complicated question because it can depend on when one started buying pipes.When I started some 42 years ago I could buy a new Falcon for 7 dollars.Dunhills were not much over 100 dollars.About 25 years ago I paid 30 dollars for a new Bjarne.It's probably the best bargain I've gotten in a pipe.I still enjoy smoking it after all these years.

 

[warren]

I think it was $2.00. I don't know where Bob (owner of the "Alaska Pipe Cache") got it but he had big tub of briars he purchased from a vendor with a sign stuck in the middle that said "rejects $2.00." There must have been fifty of them, all the same, a small apple bowl with a slightly bent stem. They were indeed briars but I believe the bit was something other than rubber. Plastic?
As I remember the pipes were about the size of standard MM, thin walled little suckers that smoked okay. Easy to overheat. I don't remember if it broke, I lost it or simply trashed it as it really wasn't much of a pipe.

 

[nachman]

It does depend on the time frame. When I started smoking a pipe, Kaywoodies were about five dollars. In the last couple of months, I bought a couple of Savinellis at $24.95 each.

 

[petes03]

About $25 for a little no name bent apple nose warmer. After I broke it in, it became a decent smoker. I still have it.

 

[mso489]

nachman, where'd you find new Sav's for $24.95 recently? I've seen them, unfinished, for as low as $44, but

that's as low as they go. Good buy!

 

[billypm]

Careful ebay shopping has gotten me two Custombilts, each for under $20 shipped. And that 60 year old Algerian briar is second to none to me. If you can stand the way they look, they can't be beat.
OOPS. Sorry. I didn't catch the "new" pipe qualification. I mean, they were new to me...

 

[pruss]

One of the best way to buy NOS briar pipes is through the purchase of collections. I have a couple of NOS Trypis pipes in my collection for which I paid $12.77 each (when you break out the cost on a per pipe basis). They are wonderful smokers of good old briar; they are hand made and burn very, very well.
-- Pat

 

[bobpnm]

I paid $19.95 for the package deal from E.A. Carey. Got a rusticated billiard and 4 ounces of tobacco. It is a good deal. I like the pipe. Takes some getting used to the "Magic Inch" but when you do it works very well, especially for Aros.

 

[weezell]

+1 bobpnm on the Carey's...

 

[smokeytay33]

I just paid 10 bucks for a brand new briar. I am still working on it, but it's working out pretty good.

 

[jkenp]

My rotation probably averages around $15. Cheapest was 7.95. All are old wood and 90% Algerian. They all came off of Ebay in the last 6 months. It is the wood of Charatan, old Dunnies, and Barling. I smoke English shapes so they look as good as the grain allows and some of them are very nice. A few are Mastercraft but an equal amount were Sidney P. Ram pipes.
Going way back in time, there is a pipe by my bed that I bought at Iwan Ries in the 60's or 70's. He had unfinished stummels in a paper bucket at 3/10. Great little Dublin.
Here is one -- an Edward's -- that in the rotation. It was $10.

 

[durham270]

I've only been smoking pipes for over a year now and the cheapest first pipe was a Savinelli Duca Carlo Lumberman. $48.00. The least I ever paid for estate pipes would be an eBay win of 36 pipes and my winning bid was 32.00. So, that makes each pipe less than 1 buck? I ended up selling them all for quite a bit more than I gave.

 

[cigrmaster]

The least I paid for a brand new pipe was 90.00 for a George Jensen. It was the biggest piece of shit I ever bought. It smoked incredibly hot and wet. I have bought estate pipes for less than half that were ten times better smokers.