Meerschaums - Post your Pipe - I can't get rid of the Darn Things!!!

[pdmus]

I have 2 -

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[smoker]

Here are my 2 meers

 

[ssjones]

My first and only. I'm still warming up to the smoke and am definitely not ready to put down the briar.

A pretty simple shape, but a perfect size.

 

[fred]

Thanks Cyndi. These are both large Pipes that are good for up to a 2 hour smoke..., which they perform well with.

 

[cyndi]

Wow, I didn't think the lady and hounds one was that big. The IMP looks like a monster. On a tangent, I have an odd hankering for any sculpture of Artemis (Diana in Greek) who was often in the company of hound dogs.

 

[unclearthur]

One of my favorite classical deities.

 

[cyndi]

This is what got me started: She was sometimes known as Cynthia, from her birthplace on Mount Cynthus on Delos. I just see myself in a lot of the mythology surrounding her. Mom purposefully named me Cynthia Dawn so that my name would mean "a reflection of light before the sun comes." Then God brought me a child named Alyssa Dawn which means exactly the same thing, but hers is an Arabic form of the name. She was the only one of our kids we didn't rename when we adopted them.

 

[baronsamedi]

Beautiful that you chose to adopt. Between yourself and Bootleg I have no doubts they are happy!

 

[kennerth]

Any special tricks to cleaning a meer bowl?

 

[baronsamedi]

I just use the dry paper towel twist after each smoke and gingerly pick at any cake with the spade on my Czech tool. Once in a moon, I'll soak a paper towel with Everclear and clean it, but less is more IMO. Of course, I take it light on purpose since I have an uncanny knack for obliterating fragile objects.

 

[baronsamedi]

One day, I wish to have an incredible collection of Meerschaums like fred or unclearthur. I have a feeling if I hang around here enough, it will happen.

 

[pstlpkr]

Kennerth welcome!
Mr. Fred Bass one of our members is an authority on the subject of Meerschaum pipes. He is modest, but knows his stuff.
Try this on for size:
Slave to the White Goddess

 

[baronsamedi]

Yep. We all pretty much defer to Fred.

 

[kennerth]

Thanks for the info and great pictures. My first estate meer in in the mail!

 

[jcsnaps]

Don't have many meers. Typical Calabash with meer bowl, maybe I'll carve Artemis and some hounds and sell this one to Cyndi, a meer lined Hilson Fantasia from the '70s and a small meer for sampling odd tobaccos, and short smokes

 

[classicgeek]

Happy, happy, joy, joy! :D I now join the ranks of proud meerschaum owners. Yesterday was my anniversary, and at breakfast my wife presented me with... some beeswax. When we went out for a nice dinner last night, we wandered to both of the downtown Victoria B & M's and chose this beauty:

Not a very fanciful shape, but it crossed two things off the bucket list: a meerschaum and a Canadian shaped pipe.
Simon

 

[portascat]

I might like to get a Meer one day...

 

[jaybird]

It's nice to have friends like that...one day I'll pick up a meer, for now I'm content with looking at all these beautiful pipes.

 

[bubbadreier]

I have one Meer and I like it, I just have to get rid of the ghost it is carrying with it!

 

[expatpipe]

I just got my first, Tanganyika block. The collection and range of shapes you guys have are amazing! But, those skull ones I'll keep clear of, they give me the heeby jeebies.. :D