Pipe evaluation

[Coreios]

So I bought this pipe a few days ago off Ebay. I didn't pay much for it at all. Wondering what it's worth. I know a little bit about WDC but not a lot. I think this is a system pipe. It's a Wellington. I don't normally purchase a pipe without knowing these things first, but as I said it was really cheap, and the seller had a lot of sells and still at 100% satisfaction . I haven't gotten the pipe yet so these aren't my pictures.

I'm wondering what it's worth and how old it is. Thanks.

 

[monty55]

idk about the age. But it's worth exactly what you paid for it

 

[Coreios]

idk about the age. But it's worth exactly what you paid for it

Sadly I kinda figured lol. Thanks.

 

[Briar Lee]

So I bought this pipe a few days ago off Ebay. I didn't pay much for it at all. Wondering what it's worth. I know a little bit about WDC but not a lot. I think this is a system pipe. It's a Wellington. I don't normally purchase a pipe without knowing these things first, but as I said it was really cheap, and the seller had a lot of sells and still at 100% satisfaction . I haven't gotten the pipe yet so these aren't my pictures.

I'm wondering what it's worth and how old it is. Thanks.
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Based entirely on the color of the briar, and since you don’t see imported briar stamped on it, that’s a pre 1940 pipe, but post WW1.

The Wellington was WDC’s mainstay pipe.

It was made of specially cured French (Algerian) briar, and came with a lifetime guarantee against cracking and burnout. Algerian briar is that color tan.

Those triangle carvings on both sides were machine done, and are sort of a trademark.

There’s no pipe on this earth capable of being a better vessel to smoke tobacco.

But they made so many millions of them, all of them but the most extremely high grades are cheap.

Nice find.

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

If you end up loving it, it's priceless. You'll determine what's it's worth.

 

[Coreios]

If you end up loving it, it's priceless. You'll determine what's it's worth.

no truer statement could be made!

 

[Coreios]

Based entirely on the color of the briar, and since you don’t see imported briar stamped on it, that’s a pre 1940 pipe, but post WW1.

The Wellington was WDC’s mainstay pipe.

It was made of specially cured French (Algerian) briar, and came with a lifetime guarantee against cracking and burnout. Algerian briar is that color tan.

Those triangle carvings on both sides were machine done, and are sort of a trademark.

There’s no pipe on this earth capable of being a better vessel to smoke tobacco.

But they made so many millions of them, all of them but the most extremely high grades are cheap.

Nice find.

That is awesome! I can't wait to put some Autumn Evenings through it! What great history!

 

[Chasing Embers]

Sadly I kinda figured lol. Thanks.

That's the same for any pipe you buy. If you felt like shelling out the money you did for a pipe, that's exactly what it's worth.

 

[Coreios]

That's the same for any pipe you buy. If you felt like shelling out the money you did for a pipe, that's exactly what it's worth.

My father used to say, "Everything is worth what it's worth to the buyer.". You are right sir.

 

[orvet]

I recall seeing Wellington in the 1980s, usually they were pipes customers were smoking.
Although I do seem to remember seeing them I some of the mass market pharmacies like Walgreens and Rite Aid. They were carded and hanging on racks in the tobacco section of the stores, as I recall.
Now days those stores carry a few tobacco products, mostly cigarettes and chew, if any tobacco at all.

I never owned a Wellington but had some customers that liked them because of their well the trapped the moisture like the Peterson system pipes. From my recollection they were not an expensive pipe in the 1980s. Those that sold on cards and Walgreens were probably in the $10 to $15 range to the best of my recollection.

 

[Coreios]

I recall seeing Wellington in the 1980s, usually they were pipes customers were smoking.
Although I do seem to remember seeing them I some of the mass market pharmacies like Walgreens and Rite Aid. They were carded and hanging on racks in the tobacco section of the stores, as I recall.
Now days those stores carry a few tobacco products, mostly cigarettes and chew, if any tobacco at all.

I never owned a Wellington but had some customers that liked them because of their well the trapped the moisture like the Peterson system pipes. From my recollection they were not an expensive pipe in the 1980s. Those that sold on cards and Walgreens were probably in the $10 to $15 range to the best of my recollection.

I thought they went out of business in the 1970's.

 

[orvet]

You may be correct about when they went out of business, I don't know.
The time when I went to Drug Stores for tobacco and pipes was in my college days, in the 1970s. The one pipe store I knew went out of circa 1975 so I was forced to shop at the large drug store chains in my college town.
Sorry I was not clear with the timing.

 

[ADKPiper]

Nice pipe.
The only possible own side with buying estate pipe is that sometimes they are ghosted.
I've found that it eventually smokes out, but it can be a bit disgusting for while.