I see things like this and it reminds me of the people who look at a pricing guide see what something sells for mint and it's impossible to explain that when they let the dog use it as a chew toy it lowered the price quite a bit.
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Quite of few of you around here are probably familiar with some of my dubious projects. But these seem to be some of the worst I've tried to bring back to life, and succeeded for the most part. Not all are high end pipes either. Go figure, I'm a glutton for punishment I guess.
1950 Dunhill, how this happened I can't even imagine.
Peterson's Sherlock Holmes with Dr. Grabow Omega stem.
Carey's Magic Inch. Why? I don't know.
1950 Dunhill, how this happened I can't even imagine.
Peterson's Sherlock Holmes with Dr. Grabow Omega stem.
Carey's Magic Inch. Why? I don't know.
Here’s a 1963 that was plugged and rescued. George Made the new stem.A delightful idea for a thread--thank you mikethompson! At least from what I've seen on Ebay in recent months, I suspect Dunhill is going to be the hands down winner for incinerated, well-chewed wrecks covered in fowl smelling filth presented as rare collectibles in auctions with ludicrously high opening bids, or let us say optimistic buy-it-now prices.
My own favorite is this sad case, a dark root 1936 pot missing its stem:
VTG USED DUNHILL PIPE 352 MADE IN ENGLAND, as is hole at bottom no stem | eBay
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Of course what makes it potentially interesting--at least for a master restorer such as georged--is that it appears to have a Vernon tenon with all four of its prongs that might be salvaged to repair another pipe. This even if this one is both stemless and totally toast.
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I'm a classic dabbler. A do-it-yourself kinda guy. No way I'm a glutton for that kind of punishment.
I had an ebay vendor tell ME the 904s were made with short crowns one year due to lack of large briar availability.
It’s unfortunately not unbelievable what some eBay sellers will write up to Polish a Turd and Spin a Sows Ear into Gold.
Have you been hanging out with that nice Mr Thompson??
I'm gonna use this thread as a confessional - fellow pipers please forgive me as I once exchanged a portion of my not so well performing tobacco of mediocre quality for another's of excellent smokability - shame on me ??
as an FYI - always check Negative ebay feeback - on one ebayers it said something like "the late arrival cannot be blamed on the seller but the CRACKED bowl is surely his fault"
Warning. You keep posting these and I'm going to end up buying one.
The worst offenders I've seen have been cobs. The percentage of markup on some of those old crusty burnouts just cause they are vintage is hilarious.
Can’t believe they’re letting that Orc Testicle with a pregnawed stem go for a mere $233!
I assume this was done to dissapate heat. Not sure if this comes from the factory like that.
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