Oh thank you. I was starting to think I was the only one. They have some that I find o.k. but...
You added some extraneous words in there. Take out the "the pot" and it is still as accurate. The 55 is a disgrace to shape.
Looks like something that dung smoking guy had.
Right. I’ve looked at those and discussed them with my wife. Her early sort of classic pipes are fetching. One thing that seems true about her is that she’s not all over the place squeezing every dime she can? I mean even though the prices on her pipes are through the roof. She doesn’t seem like she makes a lot of pipes anymore? I don’t think her pipes are ugly as something else, as objects to look at - maybe it’s just context that matters. They’re certainly interesting. Again, if I were rich, I might buy one to look or to talk about with friends. As pipes some of them verge on ugly.
I don't like the look of carved vulcanite at all. In terms of art objects, or whatever, I think I get the point. I just don't personally want a pipe as an art object. I'd definitely rather spend $9000 on a fine oil painting and buy a pipe that I intend on smoking. Of course the prices have something to do with her connection to pipe history and all that. But I'd rather own an estate Sixten Ivarsson if I were shelling out that kind of cash. But, anyway, I'm not rich. Somebody buys those pipes, because I've seen them sell. I think they're objectively ugly but that's just my subjective opinion. To each their own.
I see what you mean. If it’s a choice between that and a Marc Chagall or something, yeah, it’s no contest. Maybe I’m just musing about money I don’t have. In the end, it is hard to image who DOES buy them. I agree about pipes too. I might be more interested in a pipe with historical connections than name recognition.
I always thought those looked like a droopy diaper.
In my opinion the Castellos are lovely -
I like it too !
I didn't want to throw fire bombs in the OP, but since you asked...the latest Todd Johnson drop at SP. $4K for a pipe that has bald grain, a MASSIVE pit right where you would see it while smoking and God knows what hiding underneath that awful leather shank cover. The stitching isn't even either. I get the people who buy the ODD pipes. It turns their cranks and who am I to judge? But...that pipe...I would look past the timber in my own eye and judge the leather wrapped mote in theirs.Do you have a Platonic ideal example to share?
