Tax Time PAD

[captainsousie]

I know I've been incredibly lucky with pipes and recently a change of fortunes has made it possible to get a couple pipes I never thought I would get. I have been searching for the following pipes for a short 5 months. One has not come up at all so when I saw it and got my tax refund the same day, I knew it was meant to be. My wonderful wifey agreed. I probably overpaid but it smokes so well and looks so good I don't care. The other one has come up a lot but for quite a bit of coin and this one came up for relatively little money (Brog money) so I got double lucky for these two pipes. I think I will put PAD to rest for a few months and spoil the wifey instead.
Top is a pre-transition Barling's make YOW Fossil EL. Haven't smoked it yet but it's clean and drying for a few days.

Bottom is a 1930s (I think) Comoy's Extraordinaire 499 with both the original stem and a lucite "smoking stem" with a 3 piece C.
Dave's happy. (sorry for the bad pic quality)

Thanks for looking.
EDIT: I know the stem on the Barling is pretty bad but it doesn't worry me much as I buy them primarily to smoke. After that, if they aren't to my tastes, my other option for them is to sell.

 

[batdemon]

Both of those look great. Congratulations! :clap:

 

[alex87]

Those are some nice pieces, congrats man. I especially like the patterning on the right side of the Fossil, reminds me of contour lines of a map...the map to happiness haha

 

[numbersix]

Congrats. I've been bitten by the PAD bug myself recently — always good to score some nice pipes.

 

[captainsousie]

Thanks for the responses. The hunt for the 499 is all thanks to Al who got his not too long ago and gave me hope and Marty Pulver for having a great stock of pipes.

 

[uberam3rica]

I like the Comoys. All my tax money is going towards a car.

 

[captainsousie]

Oh yeah, another problem with the Barling is the stamping is pretty light and some is almost gone but again, I'm a smoker, not a collector.