I have a friend with a huge collection of pipes that I am helping with. Many need restored and he wants to sell them. In response to my help thus far he let me pick a pipe from his collection and this is what I chose. It is a gorgeous pipe. I chose it because it is an interesting shape and it is very light weight. An effortless clencher. At the time I didn't know about Larsen or the long list of master carvers that worked for them back in the day. Voorhees mentioned something about it and as I began to research and thus discovered that it is probably a pretty valuable pipe. The chances that this pipe was carved by Tonni Nielsen is pretty good based on my research thus far. In any case it doesn't matter. It was a sweet gift from my friend that I will cherish. I will be sitting down with him this week for a bowl in it. Escudo will be the inaugural bowl. What shape would you guys say it is?
