The story with this pipe was I had my eye on a churchwarden that was like 40 bucks or something. The owner of the pipe shop refused to sell it to me until their march sale (50 percent off most pipes). I go in the day the sale starts and he says someone bought it. I was not surprised and he offered me this one for the price of the one I wanted to buy (pre sale price) and I've never gotten what the price was going to be out of him. It' a Brebbia by the way, feel free to figure out what a deal I got on it.
Other thing. Years ago I quit tobacco for a year (stupid mistake, should have just quit cigs), this pipe literally survived the cull. It was too precious to get rid of. I did lose a tyrolean that actually smoked great. One question for brebbia why did they stop using the smoking gnome. He was cool and everyone loved him.
