Not at all! I've never seen a pipe like that one before. It's beautiful in a scary sense! It's very cool actually. Wish I knew more about it.
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Oh no ! Au Contraire !
Thanks for posting.
Quite bizarre
Waiting for Jesse (@sablebrush52 ) to chime in
Looks like a meerschaum to me.
We don’t see many pipes as unusual as yours. Thanks for showing us!
Whatever the hell it is it’s certainly interesting.
It’s possible that Barling made it. It’s possible that someone got hold of a Barling fitment and used it. Whatever it is, it’s not standard issue. Cheroot holder seems a best guess.
Commission piece for the royal order of crab men?
It’s possible that Barling made it. It’s possible that someone got hold of a Barling fitment and used it. Whatever it is, it’s not standard issue. Cheroot holder seems a best guess.
Commission piece for the royal order of crab men?
Now I am thinking it's a Franken-pipe. Nice hallmarked Barling fitment, stem from some where, and the "stummel" could be bone, meerschaum or plastic. EDIT: I didn't remember the OP said it was a crab claw. Sunday, November 26, 2023
Can you ID if those bumps are applied, or part of the original?
Can you ID if those bumps are applied, or part of the original?
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Could be I suppose, still think it’s a pipe myself. A better photo of the chamber would help determine but looking at this photo, charring suggests tobacco use, not cheroots?
Also the shape itself, that type of horn shape was quite popular in the late 19th & early 20th centuries. Here’s a ‘Smokarol’ pipe, used to incorporate a pre packed bowl of tobacco.
The charring itself doesn’t necessarily means it’s a pipe—just that it was used as one (if it is a cheroot holder); the popularity of the horn shape makes for a more compelling argument that it’s a pipe, though.
Let’s buy it and find out. We can gift it to sablebrush after our curiosity has been satisfied. I’m sure he’ll smoke it everyday if it’s from us?
The plot thickens...... Definitely?
Don’t get me wrong, I'm not saying that it's not & if anyone was capable of oxblooding a crabs claw & lining it with something, it would of been the victorians.
I've seen cheroot holders lined with amber before now, if it's a genuine crabs claw, be interesting to see what the chamber has been lined with. Hopefully the OP will return & grace us with more photos.
Definitely.
Alaskan (and North Atlantic) king crab, if I’m not mistaken
Looooove shellfish - crabs, lobsters and prawns. And molluscs.
Sydney (indeed, all Oz) is a cornucopia of sea‘s bounty.
I’ve been waiting to see if the historians are going to chime in on this one! I think it’s meerschaum?
Nothing to apologize for. Can you get additional photos? I still stand by my guess of a Franken-pipe or cheroot holder.
@RaoulDuke
Cheers,
I found the photos online but it’s at a shop just down the road from me.
I’ll try and pop down there during the week for a closer look and get some more photos.
I don’t think I’ll buy it, like I said, not really my cup of tea. They want about US$270 for it.
Definitely an unusual and interesting piece though.
You might ask them why they think it's so valuable. With no provenance, it seems very highly priced.
It’s at an antique store so I imagine they have it priced so high because it’s old, you know what antique stores are like, hah. They have it advertised as late 1800’s. I will ask about it though.
I’m pretty sure @sablebrush52 doesn’t have one in his collection.
He may offer more for such a unique piece.
Now if it only had a white dot
