The Grenada TV Jeremy Brett series showed Holmes with his briar pipe, clay pipe, and his cherrywood churchwarden, all described in the ACD stories.
I was disappointed by the Cumberbatch series using that bent briar in the Xmas special. It honestly felt like they sent someone down to the props department to get a pipe, any pipe. Given that series' multiple allusions to the ACD canon, as well as the brief camera shot/theme song (panning across Baker St to settle on the second floor of 221b) homage to the Grenada/Brett series in the Xmas special, I was also rather surprised by that embarrassing whiff on detail.