Mac Baren Dark Twist Roll Cake in a legend corncob
It looks more like sedimentary rock rather than Meer, beautiful, absolutely beautiful.Looks familiar...
Just my 2¢: photo showing the incredible difference between two similar period late 19th cent. meerschaums - one heavily smoked and the other unsmoked . . . as for the likelihood of a heavily smoked meer of that period still possessing its original amber stem I'd say that's pretty slimIt looks more like sedimentary rock rather than Meer, beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
It amazes me the color these things get. Also equally amazing is that it takes multiple lifetimes to get there. I wonder what that pipe has seenJust my 2¢: photo showing the incredible difference between two similar period late 19th cent. meerschaums - one heavily smoked and the other unsmoked . . . as for the likelihood of a heavily smoked meer of that period still possessing its original amber stem I'd say that's pretty slim
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I won it in a pipestud auction, so these are photos he took.Do you have more photos of this pipe?