roth, awesome looking Morta, love the shape, the cool looking stem and the silver work is really unique. Congrats on a great addition to your collection. I am sure you will enjoy it for many years to come.
Roth, I don't know if you're much of a poetry reader, but since you're fascinated by the age of the tree used to make your pipe, I should mention that Seamus Heaney has a number of poems on bogs and bog oak (most of them are probably on the web somewhere):
"Bogland"
"Bog Oak"
"The Grauballe Man"