Unsmoked Pipes in your Collection?

[JackOrion]

Title edited for caps. Rule 9. I have a few. Just need to find a round tuit.

Who else has unsmoked pipes in their collection?
I think I have almost as many unsmoked as are in regular rotation. Most of them are Ser Jacopo’s that I paid decent money for. I’m not considering selling these, yet if I did I would think they would hold higher value if in new condition.
If I’m honest this is what’s keeping me from loading ‘‘em up.
Can anyone relate to this mental hurdle that’s preventing me from enjoying them other than just looking at them?

 

[onestrangeone]

Nope, if I buy it I smoke it.

 

[verporchting]

I have only a few unsmoked pipes and that’s just because I haven’t gotten around to them yet. I think maybe five recent purchases? They will be smoked whenever I get around to it. Seems like the pipe carver would be sad to know their efforts weren’t being fully appreciated.

 

[LeafErikson]

I’ve never bought a pipe and not smoked it the same day I received it. Pipes are beautiful and I would understand the inclination to keep a few as a display piece. However in your case I can’t relate as you do plan on smoking them but are hesitating for whatever reason. Maybe in your subconscious there’s something about them you don’t like so you want them unsmoked/easier to sell? I say load em up and smoke em. If you want to sell them I’m sure you’ll still get good money for them as a private seller as opposed to trading them in.

 

[monty55]

If you live long enough, say 60 more years, then they might be worth more than they are now, but I wouldn't abstain from smoking a pipe because I want it to stay in NOS condition.

IMHO, a pipe needs to be smoked. It was thought out and created to be smoked.
If you don't smoke from it, your doing it an injustice... it can't become what it was meant to be...

 

[seanv]

I have a few unsmoked pipes that I intend to smoke. I have too many at the moment so I am in the cull the herd stage. It is difficult but needs to be done

 

[kcghost]

Not if I can help it.

 

[Hillcrest]

Who else has unsmoked pipes in their collection?
I think I have almost as many unsmoked as are in regular rotation. Most of them are Ser Jacopo’s that I paid decent money for. I’m not considering selling these, yet if I did I would think they would hold higher value if in new condition.
If I’m honest this is what’s keeping me from loading ‘‘em up.
Can anyone relate to this mental hurdle that’s preventing me from enjoying them other than just looking at them?

Sell them here and eliminate the problem.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

Until about 10 minutes ago I did!

This post reminded me a NOS Kaywoodie caught my eye in the SP estates a few months ago, so I went and found it and holy cow what a nice draw and easy smoking pipe - again, asking myself why I have more expensive or even very many other pipes, haha.

 

[Deano]

Until about 10 minutes ago I did!

This post reminded me a NOS Kaywoodie caught my eye in the SP estates a few months ago, so I went and found it and holy cow what a nice draw and easy smoking pipe - again, asking myself why I have more expensive or even very many other pipes, haha.

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I ask myself the same thing everytime l smoke a cob.

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

I ask myself the same thing everytime l smoke a cob.

Someday ..............

 

[TheIronMonkey]

I have a number of older pipes that have survived unsmoked in original packaging and are more interesting because they’re like little time capsules, in the condition they were when first issued so many years ago. They’re a lot more interesting and rare that way—smoking them will just turn them into used pipes, nothing special. There are plenty of pipes that can be smoked instead, or the same model that is not pristine can be gotten and smoked instead if need be.

 

[warren]

Of course not! I'm not one to buy a pipe simply to buy a pipe, not a collector. I'm a smoker and pipes are simply smoking tools. I like having them in my jaw or fist.

 

[didimauw]

I have 3 new unsmoked pipes. One Is a cob that is a backup. One is a Kaywoodie I traded a for a different Kaywoodie, and one is a Meer. Both arrived after I purchased my altinay, that I've dedicated an entire year to. So in December I will be firing both of those up. Probably not at the same time though.

 

[Briar Tuck]

I have only a few unsmoked pipes and that’s just because I haven’t gotten around to them yet. I think maybe five recent purchases? They will be smoked whenever I get around to it. Seems like the pipe carver would be sad to know their efforts weren’t being fully appreciated.

Same here. The only unsmoked pipes I have are recent estate buys that I haven't cleaned up yet. I smoke all of my pipes.

 

[Grangerous]

I can understand the OP perfectly. When I joined this forum, I had baskets, cobs, kaywoodies and Grabow’s and I thought nothing about collecting pipes.

Then… it began. I’m building a 7 day set of BBB’s. I have five. I’ll likely do the same with GBD. I’ve already done so with old factory Stanwells and honestly, I just don’t get around to smoking them. I will eventually. That’s a certainty. But I get the OP.

That part of this I’ll call a hobby.

 

[NomadOrb]

I have a couple of back up cobs I haven't smoked yet, but anything serious I buy is getting smoked early and often.

 

[OzPiper]

The only one I have is a cased 1917 BBB bent billiard that is unsmoked
It may be worth more in an unsmoked condition, but it's not worth a whole heap.
Just waiting for the right occasion to smoke it.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

I have a number of unsmoked 100+ year old pipes. CPF, WDC, KB&B. They’ll stay that way as long as I own em.

 

[ashdigger]

I’ve had unsmoked pipes. I’ve either then smoked them or passed them along.

I currently have one unsmoked Pre-Republic Peterson System 0 that will dance with fire, but not today