Tekin Meerschaum Coloring Updates
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The coloring on that pipe looks great. The coloring is very even which doesn't always happen, and really gives it a nice look. I'm more impressed that you've been keeping track of your smokes this whole time.
Check out the coloring on this old meerschaum from the 19th century.
Thanks man. Yeah it’s a great pipe.
It was the only pipe I smoked for about 6 months and I smoked 2-4 bowls a day, averaging right around 3 bowls a day for 6 months. That made keeping track easier. It’s harder to keep track now that it’s not the only pipe I smoke so I’d say it’s an estimate for sure.
To my eye that looks like a pipe that was fumed and then pre-colored. I’d need to see better pictures but there’s a chance that this pipe was lightly or potentially never even smoked.
Compare it to Jefferson Davis’ claw meerschaum from the 19th century. The splotchiness, uneven coloring, uneven fuming. It all looks much more natural.
You are right that it looks almost too uniform. Thanks for the comments and the photo of Jeff Davis's pipe.
@LeafErikson are you still building up cake in your meerschaum? It’s always been my understanding you don’t want cake in meerschaum, that it supposedly takes away from what it does already naturally, and that you should wipe the chamber out after smoking and never build any cake in it.
And when you allow it to get thick like you did, with the heat it expands and when cooling down contracts, it could crack a meerschaum from the expanding/contracting.
Supposedly from professional meerschaum carvers, cake in a meerschaum is considered bad.
Maybe @Said.ALTINAY can express some thoughts here.
And when you allow it to get thick like you did, with the heat it expands and when cooling down contracts, it could crack a meerschaum from the expanding/contracting.
Supposedly from professional meerschaum carvers, cake in a meerschaum is considered bad.
Maybe @Said.ALTINAY can express some thoughts here.
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We've already been through this less than a year ago and it ended with you apologizing to me. I don't want to get into this again with you. The best apology is changed behavior.
Things have been crazy lately, not sure how I forgot this post… hmm
By the way, the pipe looks like it’s colored really nice…
Enjoy it!
Those ancient heavily colored and heavily caked meerschaums would disagree. A few of us have debunked that meerschaum myth and a few others over the past couple of years.
Many of them don't smoke.
The growth of the lighter colored area around the rim is curious, any thoughts?
I have a theory.
There were a few days in July/August that were extremely hot and I was smoking outside. It was actually so hot that the pipe essentially would start perspiring wax. I wiped off some excess from around the rim, as that's where it was sweating the most. I think that's where those spots came from but I'm unsure.
Well, I bought it from a reputable antiques dealer and he told me it was mid 1880's - 1890's. I do not have any written provenance to substantiate.
If you have any data that would refute it, my feelings won't be hurt as I did not mortgage the farm or anything when I bought it.
No, none at all. It looks as if it could have been made in this century. But looks can be deceiving! Still, a lovely pipe regardless.
While on the topic of Meerschaum coloring, here is another very old meer. I have always loved the coloring of this one as it is very rich and deep. I do not know the age.
Note: The stem is made of a cherry tree branch.
Note: The stem is made of a cherry tree branch.