Show Us The One Pipe You Will Never Part With

[Dshift]

I will start by immediately braking the one pipe rule

Peterson spigot from 1971:

Peterson SPORTS 6:

this one was just meant to be - I received it, two weeks ago, as a non listed bonus in a lot I got on Ebay. They never mentioned it because it had no stem, but of course when I checked in a bag of miscellaneous spare parts I bought a month ago, I found the original stem

 

[Waning Embers]

Though most of my pipes are commissioned artisan pieces, this Savinelli Alligator 904 is completely immune from being thrown away. My youngest daughter picked it out for me when she was four years old and my dad smoked it the last time I spoke to him before he passed away.

 

[Dshift]

Though most of my pipes are commissioned artisan pieces, this Savinelli Alligator 904 is completely immune from being thrown away. My youngest daughter picked it out for me when she was four years old and my dad smoked it the last time I spoke to him before he passed away.

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First of all, it is a gorgeous pipe, but with a story like that - I am taking it with me in the casket

 

[JoburgB2]

Though most of my pipes are commissioned artisan pieces, this Savinelli Alligator 904 is completely immune from being thrown away. My youngest daughter picked it out for me when she was four years old and my dad smoked it the last time I spoke to him before he passed away.

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That is special.

 

[wyfbane]

I bought this cob the day my mom died. I had driven 2 hours to meet up with my dad and brother. I forgot a pipe in my state. My brother took me to get one. I smoked this pipe all day and drank a fifth of Bushmills. It is now the pipe I use for Crooner. I think of my mom and mellow tunes when I smoke it.

 

[Sobrbiker]

My dad’s Sven Lar 1FS. I rarely smoke it, but I’ll never be rid of it.

 

[ssjones]

I have a lot of Rhodesians that are near and dear to me. I'm not that big of a Dunhill fan (I own three), but this 747 Root Briar has become my new favorite. This is the only example of the shape number that I have seen. I love my GBD 9438's, this is slightly larger in all dimensions. Smokes like a dream and is perfectly balanced.

 

[PaulRVA]

Savinelli Autograph

 

[pappymac]

I have at least seven pipes that I will never throw away because they were all gifts that my late wife bought for me or picked out and told me to buy.

All seven are in my weekly rotation and are enjoyable smokers.

 

[agnosticpipe]

I got this Ashton just after my wife passed away because it reminded me of her. Small and pretty.

 

[ak2000]

This was the first "good" pipe I purchased in my beginning days as a pipe smoker. It was an estate purchase at the time and it still smokes as well as any of my more expensive pipes, if not better. Savinelli Hand Made dual finish

 

[keith929]

The only permanent members of my pipe collection are these two leather covered Bradberrys.
They were a birthday gift from my late mother for my seventeenth birthday.

 

[anotherbob]

not a great pic but that is my oldest pipe and I've owned it longer then about half of my co workers have been alive.

 

[Brad H]

 

[Sea Lord]

I have a lot of Rhodesians that are near and dear to me. I'm not that big of a Dunhill fan (I own three), but this 747 Root Briar has become my new favorite. This is the only example of the shape number that I have seen. I love my GBD 9438's, this is slightly larger in all dimensions. Smokes like a dream and is perfectly balanced.


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The grain..................The graiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!!!!

 

[Sig]

I don't believe I'll ever get rid of most of my pipes. There are not any pipes of any special significance, except for a few.
20+ years ago when I really started getting into pipe smoking, I joined the old "Smokers Forums".
There was an old guy, Trucker Chuck, who at the time was in his 80s. Him and I talked a lot due to similar interests. One day he asked if he could send me a package. Of course I said yes, with no idea what was coming. It turns out he was at the end of his piping days but had nobody to pass his small pipe collection to. I recieved a box with a number of slightly to moderately, to heavily used pipes. He had all of them professionally cleaned before sending them.
He told me to smoke them, sell them, gift them or chuck them....it was my choice. We continued talking for the next year or so, then he disappeared. Months later a family member let us know he passed.
The box contained.....5 Peterson System pipes. 3 Dunhills, a Celius Root Pawn, a Masta Patent, a 1936? Peterson Billiard, a Barling Guinea Grain, another Barling, two Sassini 2 dots, a couple Stanwells and several others including Savinelli, Upshall and some old Kaywoodies.....and a Charatans Make.
Now I know this sounds terrible, but him and I talked about this. I sold a few and gifted a few.
The Celius, a birth year Dunhill the Charatans and the Peterson Billiard and the Masta are among my best and favorite pipes, they arent going anywhere. I sold the other 2 Dunhills and the Barlings. The rest are here or gifted away.
I post pictures of the Charatans Make, the Peterson and Celius here often, they are daily smokers.

 

[woodsroad]

There are a few things that I own that I am sentimental about, my grandfather’s watch, my father’s tools and paintings, my mother’s cookbooks, but my pipes are not among them. Maybe if I’d been a pipe smoker earlier in life there would be more associations with personal milestones. There aren’t even cameras I’m attached to, probably because I was never able to afford it, always having to sell one to afford a new one. I still have my Leica CL from the mid-80’s, but I’ll probably sell that soon, too.

Now, if this thread was titled “Show Us the One Gun…”

Which reminds me, I have a lot of pipes that I never smoke.

 

[wyfbane]

Now, if this thread was titled “Show Us the One Gun…”

All mine died in a fishing accident.

 

[woodsroad]

All mine died in a fishing accident.

Not to hijack the thread, but…
I’d been thinning the herd and every time I sold something (all milsurp), values rose by 30% within a year or two. So I’m waiting until I retire to dispose of more.

 

[Dshift]

I don't believe I'll ever get rid of most of my pipes. There are not any pipes of any special significance, except for a few.
20+ years ago when I really started getting into pipe smoking, I joined the old "Smokers Forums".
There was an old guy, Trucker Chuck, who at the time was in his 80s. Him and I talked a lot due to similar interests. One day he asked if he could send me a package. Of course I said yes, with no idea what was coming. It turns out he was at the end of his piping days but had nobody to pass his small pipe collection to. I recieved a box with a number of slightly to moderately, to heavily used pipes. He had all of them professionally cleaned before sending them.
He told me to smoke them, sell them, gift them or chuck them....it was my choice. We continued talking for the next year or so, then he disappeared. Months later a family member let us know he passed.
The box contained.....5 Peterson System pipes. 3 Dunhills, a Celius Root Pawn, a Masta Patent, a 1936? Peterson Billiard, a Barling Guinea Grain, another Barling, two Sassini 2 dots, a couple Stanwells and several others including Savinelli, Upshall and some old Kaywoodies.....and a Charatans Make.
Now I know this sounds terrible, but him and I talked about this. I sold a few and gifted a few.
The Celius, a birth year Dunhill the Charatans and the Peterson Billiard and the Masta are among my best and favorite pipes, they arent going anywhere. I sold the other 2 Dunhills and the Barlings. The rest are here or gifted away.
I post pictures of the Charatans Make, the Peterson and Celius here often, they are daily smokers.
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Amazing pipes... not better than the story though.