Top 5 Pipes You Own.

[fishnbanjo]

Here is a twist, I know we all have different tastes in our pipes we actually wouldn't be human if we didn't see things differently, i.e. the old saw beauty is in the eye of the beholder. So here is what I am aiming at to see

(photos if possible please) the following 5 pipes you own.
1. Your most elegant pipe.

2. Your most perfect to form, i.e. classic shape, pipe

3. Your most unique pipe.

4. Your most smoked pipe.

5. Your oldest pipe.
I will refrain for the moment but I think this will be fun and give both new and old pipester's alike a fresh look at how we see our pipes. :D

 

[northernneil]

1. Most elegant pipe: Caminetto Business Mustach 1/2 bent dublin

2. Perfect Form: Brigham Acadian #62 - Prince

3. Most Unique: Chacom Royal 389C (I think it is a paneled acorn)

4. Most Smoked: Aldo Valintine (can't remember proper spelling) tulip sitter

5. Oldest pipe: Chacom Royal 389C. Pipe was harvested in 1949, cut in 1999 and finished in 2009.

 

[pruss]

Banjo! Great thread.
1. Most Elegant - Sandahl Pipe Two-Stem Cutty/Egg



2. Most Perfect to Form - Savinelli DeLuxe Milano Lovat



3. Most Unique Pipe - S. Yanik Figural Meerschaum



4. Most Smoked Pipe - Philip Trypis Twin Bore Billiard



5. Oldest Pipe - Kaywoodie 5151S Lovat 4-Hole Stinger (est. early 1940s)


Can't wait to see everyone else's answers!
-- Pat

 

[mso489]

Most elegant: Ser Jacopo blast curvaceously bent Dublin

Perfect Form: Chacom straight billiard Exquise in forest green

Most unique: Jerry Perry pot/poker Mountain Laurel

Most smoked: Joh's freehand tomahawk

Oldest: Tinder Box St. Ives bent pot smooth sitter

 

[rmason]

1. Most Elegant- My GBD Ebony

2. Most Perfect Form- GBD Ebony

3. Most Unique- My Green Colored Duke from Dr. Grabow

4. Most Smoked- GBD Ebony

5. Oldest- Colored Duke.
I've got a lot of other pipes I just really like my GBD.

~Ron

 

[fishnbanjo]

I just edited to post photos if possible, thank you pruss w/o a photo that owl would have been lost, it's superb!

 

[pitchfork]

Great idea, banjo. I'll post my pics later this evening -- looking forward to seeing everyone else's.

 

[voorhees]

1. Your most elegant pipe. / My GBD Sovereign Liverpool with the chair leg stem.

2. Your most perfect to form, i.e. classic shape, pipe / BBB Dublin

3. Your most unique pipe. / Neerup Classic Bent Apple

4. Your most smoked pipe. / LVC Meerschaum

5. Your oldest pipe. / 1926 Dunhill Double Patent/ Bent Billiard

 

[jgriff]

Elegant: Don Carlos 3 Note

Perfect to Form: Peterson 268 Deluxe. The definitive zulu shape to me.

Unique: Butz Choquin Origine Unie.

Most Smoked: Weber Blackthorn Lovat is my traveling workhouse. It smokes a little of everything and smokes it well.

Oldest: Peterson 309 System pipe from 1943. I may have some older floating around but it's the oldest that I can document.

 

[fishnbanjo]

Elegant: 9 1/2" Chris Askwith Morta Cutty

Perfect to form: Jack Howell Dublin

Unique: Wallenstein Nosewarmer

Smoked: Tsuge Tankard with over 500 under its belt in under a year

Oldest: 1917 Group 1 Dunhill Shell with real Ivory Spot

 

[warren]

1. My new Millville. When John made this his eye was perfect. Well balance and proportioned, large bowl, slightly truncated to the stem. Vaguely free-hand and yet, still a nice formal shape. A couple more bowls and it'll be nicely broken in.

2. GBD Stardust, bent, small apple. Balanced shape and feel. Easy on the jaw.

3. Unnamed Russian, possibly birch root. Carved somewhere in the Far East (Magadan Region most likely) gulag 70 years ago or so. Black, poorly stained, flat bottom large bowl which is flattened on the sides, rusticated front and sides, smooth back, and fits the hand and a pocket very well. A treasured gift.

4. Any of the meers, 2 or 3 bowls each evening.

5. See #3.
Side note: My favorite smoker is a Peterson Silver Cap which never makes it all the way through the rotation. It gets fired up 2 or 3 days a week, 4 to 6 bowls each day when I'm out behind the lens.

 

[pitchfork]

1. Most Elegant - Stanwell 70
Not conventionally "elegant," perhaps, but there's an elegance to me in the simplicity of the design (by Sixten Ivarsson).

2. Most True to Form - Kaywoodie Apple

3. Most Unique - LHS Purex All Briar Bulldog

4. Most Smoked - Elliott Nachwalter Horn/Dublin
It has a strange, funnel-shaped bowl that took me a while to figure out (I almost sold it), but now it's my absolute favorite pipe for burleys. Wide at the top and very narrow at the bottom, it naturally packs by the air pocket method, giving it a cool, calabash-like smoke. This is usually my "early morning pipe."

5. Oldest - Salmon & Gluckstein Bent Billiard (1896)

 

[pruss]

:clap:
Keep 'em coming friends!
@Banjo I've always loved the unique pipes you posted, and while your nosewarmer is certainly unique, I remember a pipe you posted a couple months back that was all organic-angles, from bit to rim... I love that pipe
@Voorhees that GBD Sovereign is OUTSTANDING I've not yet seen a GBD like it. What a cool combination of design elements.
@Pitch I can't wait to find a Nachwalter like yours. The plateau top makes that pipe for me. Looking down into the bowl is kind of like looking into a caldera. Lovely lines on that pipe.
-- Pat

 

[captainsousie]

Ooh, this looks fun. I had to cheat a little as there were quite a few choices on some of these.
1. Elegant: This was tough but my Cris Morgan Bing won out.

2. Perfect: Again, tough but the Upshall P Grade is a fantastically made bent billiard

3. Unique: This one was impossible so I chose 2. Tanganyika rough meer and Tsuge metal blowfish. There were a few other contenders.

4. Most smoked: Hands down my Savinelli Punto Oro bulldog.

5. Oldest: Pre-kaywoodie (pre-1919) KB&B Sicilia.

 

[pitchfork]

Thanks, Pat. I'm sure you'll find your Nachwalter before long. I won't buy Nachwalters if they have fills (a good many do), but this one's got 'em. Seven, if I remember correctly, including a fairly large one on the other side. But now I wouldn't sell it for anything.
Just in the few posts so far, I find that people's most smoked pipe isn't always their "best" in terms of looks, fit and finish, resale value, etc. And yet, we spend hours thinking about how we like the look of this or that pipe, the hand feel on some other pipe, and so on. I'm sure there's some kind of philosophic wisdom to take from this (huh?), but it is kind of funny in a way.

 

[pitchfork]

Nice selection, Captain. Great "uniques." How do you like that Tsuge metal blowfish, by the way? I think it's cool as all get out.

 

[captainsousie]

Thanks pitch. The Tsuge is a truly tiny pipe, a standard tamper won't fit so I use a nail, but I love it if I only have 15 minutes before bed and want a pipe. It smokes quite well even though it's not broken in yet...and the looks don't hurt at all, the black metal with dark wood is tops.

 

[voorhees]

Pruss, thanks for the compliment on the GBD. You are the second person on here to say the they had not seen one like it and how unusual it was.

 

[captainsousie]

I do have to say, the pipes posted so far are very nice. I'm having a hard time picking a favorite.

 

[sallow]

Salmon & Gluckstein Bent Billiard (1896)

That is one handsome little pipe you have there, pitchfork. The combination of the grain and the lines on that piece are noteworthy.