I've never sold any of my pipes. But I did misplace a Stanwell Featherweight Straight Brandy recently, and I really hope I find it.
What Pipe would You Like to have Back? Why?
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I haven't smoked pipes long enough to have gotten rid of any yet. But I would love any Peterson Patent Era pipes from past.
There was a particular Dunhill I sold way back when funds were tight. It had a beautiful blast & silver ring on it. I regret it to this day.
An early Luigi Viprati "rocce" natural finish Hungarian/Oom Paul that I only smoked a few times. It was actually a fantastic looking and smoking pipe.
The one that you made me, that got ripped off by porch pirates yesterday.
They got that and the one I made. Two authors gone. To console myself I bought a new Imp.
I haven't been in the game long enough, or I suppose amassed enough pipes to have had to let any go. I really hope I never get to the point.
The dr grabow grand duke that was the second pipe I ever bought. Shank cracked and I didn’t know about banding so I tossed it. It was the first briar pipe I ever bought so I wish I had it for nostalgias sake.
You just can't trust those damn 55 and up kids these days!
I agree although it has to be said I've never had that many anyway. Plus, I buy cheap to keep so I'm under no pressure to get rid of them. The missus doesn't say anything which must be good.
My grandpa basket briar , i tossed it with my lunchbag accidentally at work one day , he is the reason i started smoking a pipe , i hope he can see me perpetuate his hobby even i don’t care for his beloved Borkum Riff .
Only one....a Rad Davis sandblasted Zulu with Cumberland stem. I was downsizing several years ago and never smoked it because I feared scorching the beautiful smooth rim because I couldn't see the rim when I lit it the way it slanted away. It was a beautiful pipe and smoked like a dream. I'd smoke the heck out of it today if I still had it.
I'm in the same camp as mortonbriar. The first pipe I ever bought was a Stanwell second called a Danish Sovereign. I bought it back in 1971 from a local tobacco shop. Exactly 20-years later in 1991 I accidentally left it on the table at a restaurant (back when you could still smoke a pipe after a fine dinner). I went back an hour later when I discovered what I had done but the pipe was gone and never recovered. And here it is 40 years after buying that pipe that I still tear up thinking about losing my first ever pipe!
Maybe they will turn up on a shelf in an antique store sometime...wait, did you start your consignment store purely to find back the lost sheep? Playing the long game, that's commitment!
A Peterson Aran bent billiard with a p-lip, it was my one and only p-lip, hated its guts so i sold it. Now I wonder from time to time would I still hate the p-lip as much as I did before, and it would be nice if that ones around so I can know for sure, yet am not bothered enough to get another lol.
My best smoking, most loved pipe of all time was a Jean Lacroix Diamant straight billiard of perfect size, replete with typical (for the marque) straight grain and a fill or two. I could smoke garbage in it and it would taste great. Lost it somewhere in the Adirondacks around 1978 and the pain still hurts. I still look for it once in a while, but hope is beginning to fade.