Show Off Your Straight Billiards Here!

[sparrowhawk]

Great topic! Here below are my humble offerings as my favorite billiards. The top pipe is an estate Ashton, and probably, next to my freehand Ashton, my favorite pipe out of my modest collection. It's about a dozen years old, has an outstanding pebble grain sandblast with a cumberland mouthpiece: the stain is something the seller (SP) called ox's blood, and really has to be seen to be able to be appreciated. I wouldn't sell this pipe for a thousand, it looks and smokes that well. The second pipe is no stranger to most I would think: a billiard from Peterson's Dracula series. This is not just a novelty pipe--it is a fantastic smoker.

 

[petes03]

Nice ones guys! Keep em' coming!

 

[sparrowhawk]

I think we need to take up a donation fund for Irish; he doesn't look like he has enough pipes. :D

 

[sparrowhawk]

One good pipe deserves another: this is, arguably, the kind of pipe someone means when they say "pipe." It is the Peterson Irish Harp, a good stout straight billiard, with thick wood walls on the bowl and a beautiful silver--not nickel--ring band that displays the Peterson name along with an engraving of a harp. The kind of traditional pipe you'd want with you if you were stuck on a desert island (with lots of tobacco).

 

[glpease]

Some beautiful billiards! Tinpan, that Charatan is really stunning. One of the nicest I've seen! Billiards getting some much deserved love. Who'da thunk it?

 

[sparrowhawk]

@glpease. What a great set of pipes! And I loved your article on billiards, too, GL.

 

[glpease]

Thanks, sparrowhawk.
Here's one of my oldest, and a favorite. This is a 1915 SCB that came in a nice fitted case.

And, as a fan of the "chubby billiard," a couple of Radices.

A bowl detail shot of one of my old Drucquer/La Croix pipes. Love that blast!

Finally, a GBD Prehistoric that's been polished and ported, and smokes like a dream.

 

[jguss]

a 1915 SCB that came in a nice fitted case
that's a beauty, greg; a very nice example of an early singleton & cole.

 

[sparrowhawk]

Wow, GL, what great pipes! You willing to sell them? Hehe. Especially the chubby billiards--I need to get one of those.

 

[numbersix]

Great pipes Pete03 and everyone. Big fan of the straight billiard.

This is a 1915 SCB that came in a nice fitted case

Gotta say, that is a beauty!
I will try to share some of my favs shortly.

 

[petes03]

Greg, those pipes are gorgeous! Especially the SCB and the GBD!

 

[moses]

It's huge, plateaued, has a subtle bend in the stem, and is totally inappropriate for outdoor winter smoking in Maine, but this is my Grade 7 Trypis from pruss. NOS Trypis pipes for the win!

 

[misterlowercase]

Well damn, I been meanin' to get off my lazy rump and click some pix for this thread and I finally got inspired by all the fine specimens herein.
It is a task to photograph pipes, at least for me it's very difficult, I look at some other peoples pix and marvel at how beautiful they are, how the image evokes a little more than just an object, and I wish I had those skillz but I ain't, yet I keep trying anyways...
...and since The Dark Lord Baccalchemist has posted here, I gotta stray momentary to say thank you for writing all you write for sharing, it is very much appreciated. I like to print 'em out in little zine booklets, the Ask column and From the Ashes, and read them over and over.

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Now, to the billiards.
I got this WDC because it's a great example of a well-done oldschool American sandblast, and the name Kerly Briar grabb'd my gonads, plus they were very proud to be using Dunlop vulcanite, one of my fave tire makers and conjure daydreams of zinging all arms 'n elbows fullthrottle under gran prix arch bridges 'n suchlike...

Next, an oddball Comoy 2nd, a Piccadilly Square 185.

A Savory's Argyll 286 LB type shape.

Another oddball 2nd, I'm pretty sure it was crafted by the trippin' hippies at Charatan, they did some amazing blasts and many of them ended up as house pipes, this one is a Churchill, and it's also a LB type shape.

I'm in the middle of a resto with it, I really like the drab brown stem oxidation and wish I could keep it, but it tastes yucky. I think I'd like to commission a billiard with a stem similar to the olive color that Manduela likes to use...

 

[petes03]

Here's my newest addition, a Peterson "86" Outdoor. It's a birthday gift from the wife!

 

[natibo]

My favorite:

 

[misterlowercase]

All those stout Pete's are making me want one really bad, they look great. I've yet to get myself a Pete, I want a Kapruf but it seems most of them have Plips...does Peterson still make the Kapruf series?
A few more billiards,

this ain't a great picture, but it's a great pipe.

My best performer and it's about as perfect as I could ask, I really love it.

Wayne Teipen classic billiard

1962 Dunhill 252

1956 Dunhill 60

Late production Parker Baron slim billiard

 

[lestrout]

I heard that a proper classical billiard isn't exactly 90 degrees, bowl to shank. Something about that slight angle providing a balanced look to the eye.
hp

les

 

[jcsoldit]

Here are a couple of mine...

My Old Nellie



and one from Rich Lewis...

 

[lostandfound]

I'm not really a "grain" kind of guy, JC; but that Lewis is a stunner.
Come on six, we're all waiting...

 

[lonestar]

There are a couple of absolutely stunning billiards in this post !