Tempted By An Extraordinary Set

[BingBong]

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As an investment piece, it sure is tugging at me a little. I've never seen such a thing before, but that's youthful innocence for you.

What do our experts think?

 

[Chasing Embers]

Keep in mind that it'll be quite small as it is a cheroot holder. They pop up fairly frequently on ebay.

Necessary to Smoke Erotic Meerschaum Pipe XIX Century / Smoker | eBay

NECESSARY TO SMOKE EROTIC IN ITS CASE comprising: a carved meerschaum pipe representing a young woman with a bare bust, one arm raised and one arm folded under her chest. Its two legs in amber and sea foam forming cigarette holders, the foam carved into a curved leg. The set is presented in a...

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[sablebrush52]

With the pillow off, the set looks like one would be obliged to suck off a hermaphrodite.
A nicely carved hermaphrodite to be sure, but still a hermaphrodite.

 

[huntertrw]

Tempted By a More Extraordinary Set:

 

[BingBong]

With the pillow off, the set looks like one would be obliged to suck off a hermaphrodite.
A nicely carved hermaphrodite to be sure, but still a hermaphrodite.

That aspect did occur to me and reminded me that I would not actually smoke it!

 

[woodsroad]

That aspect did occur to me and reminded me that I would not actually smoke it!

C’mon.
Live a little.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

I don't remember a cross-dressing character in The Three Musketeers . . . not sure how appreciation in the value of the investment would be measured, please don't tell me.

 

[georged]

Go back in time...

Before sex robots, before the Internet, before mass distribution magazines, before anything but flesh-and-blood reality, how did weirdo creepy perv types that everyone ran from on sight get their Happy on?

That's right.

Meerschaum cigar holders.

 

[condorlover1]

@georged : Hello little girl. Would you like to sniff my 'cutty' pipe? Creepy perv circa 1870 hanging out with Lewis Carroll!

 

[TheIronMonkey]

The amber shoes are often broken or missing on these—it’s nice to see them intact, but that explains the price.

 

[BingBong]

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The amber shoes are often broken or missing on these—it’s nice to see them intact, but that explains the price.

Yes, the whole set looks very intact. I've shied away from it; it's priced at three gold Sovereigns at current values and I think the gold would be the better bet.

 

[Briar Lee]

I have a theory on who bought that stuff.

A gentleman of the means to afford it, couldn’t risk his wife to see it.

Those just about had to be kept at the rooms of Forty Dollar Sadies who wore their hair tied with a blue velvet band.

Sing one, Hy Lo Brown!

For extra credit, explain a Forty Dollar Sadie to a child with their mother in the same room.

(My grandmother had to explain it to me. She said you know those girls of Miss Kitty’s on Gunsmoke? They cost two silver dollars. Miss Kitty cost two Double Eagles. )

 

[BingBong]

I have a theory on who bought that stuff.

A gentleman of the means to afford it, couldn’t risk his wife to see it.

Those just about had to be kept at the rooms of Forty Dollar Sadies who wore their hair tied with a blue velvet band.

Sing one, Hy Lo Brown!

For extra credit, explain a Forty Dollar Sadie to a child with their mother in the same room.

(My grandmother had to explain it to me. She said you know those girls of Miss Kitty’s on Gunsmoke? They cost two silver dollars. Miss Kitty cost two Double Eagles. )

I just read that Forty Dollar Sadie was none other than Mrs Wyatt Earp!

 

[Briar Lee]

I just read that Forty Dollar Sadie was none other than Mrs Wyatt Earp!

It’s disputed, and the lady herself demurred.

Speaking of Forty Dollar Sadies.

My cousin has the 1919 wedding photos of that good old grandma who explained the cost of women to me.

There grandma was, over six feet in her heels, 21 years old, waist length raven black curly hair, and there grandpa was, little fella, bald headed, 38, suit and tie, grinning like a possum.

Grandma was so proud of that photo.

She’d say I looked down out of my window as the bonfires burned to celebrate the Armistice and there was the cutest man I’d ever seen.

She would put up the photo and while she was out of earshot, my mother would say it didn’t hurt his looks any his wife had just died, he had a new car and new buggy both, 2,000 acres of bottomland and $2,000 in the postal savings.

 

[Sobrbiker]

The title reminds me of how my second marriage started…

 

[Zamora]

Keep in mind that it'll be quite small as it is a cheroot holder. They pop up fairly frequently on ebay.

Necessary to Smoke Erotic Meerschaum Pipe XIX Century / Smoker | eBay

NECESSARY TO SMOKE EROTIC IN ITS CASE comprising: a carved meerschaum pipe representing a young woman with a bare bust, one arm raised and one arm folded under her chest. Its two legs in amber and sea foam forming cigarette holders, the foam carved into a curved leg. The set is presented in a...

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I see them in antiques shops often as well