Holy shitskapoli that thing is yugeJust finished a bowl of Klondike Gold and remembered that I needed to weigh the pipe. So I haven't been keeping track of how many bowl have gone through this but a rough guess would be ball park 250 / 300 . 80 grams is what I was thinking it weighed new so no weight change.View attachment 214841
Pretty standard for an IMP reverse calabash.
That's how mine is too.It sits nicely off the clench, hardly noticeable.
Mama mia that’s another big papasan.
I've heard of custom cobs, but not commissioned cobs....I'm intrigued.
Mac Arthur sized freehand, carved into a skull, with a meerschaum shank, horn inlay, vulcanite stem?
Not all Bauer Calabashes sported the AB cartouche it was dependent on the year of production . His trademark was the thimble joint made out of Briar.
Well it is documented that they all weren’t stamped with his cartouche. Do you realize how easy it would be for a forger to make up an AB stamp and put it on any similar pipe
