What Pipes Do You Wish You Had?

[wyfbane]

So I have a lot of pipes. I actually bought waaay too many and should have quadrupled down on cellaring. But still, there are some pipes I wish I had gotten before I became impoverished. I was compelled to write this because I have seen at least 4 of these for sale and cannot buy them. lol

In no particular order:

1. A Walt Cannoy Suede finish. Not super particular on the shape.
2. A 1989 Ashton Pebble Grain.
3. A Dunhill in the 120 shape, preferably a shell. Older the better.
4. A meer of a guy smoking a pipe that looks like a guy, smoking a pipe that looks like a guy. (3 guys)
5. A Trevor Talbert pipe not a Ligne Bretagne. That one he did that looked like the alien from Alien will always be the pipe that got away.
6. A Northern Briars Sea Urchin.
7. A Jørgen Larsen pipe, mid-grade or higher.
8. A Bertram Safferling pipe.
9. And my final guilty dream...an S. Bang.

 

[Hillcrest]

Vintage Peterson 01 House pipe like Charles Peterson's.

 

[wyfbane]

Vintage Peterson 01 House pipe like Charles Peterson's.

Ah, dang! I want one of those, too!

 

[bullet08]

Peterson bog oak pipe. You know the one. Clover carved one. That's about only pipe I would want at this point.

 

[Chasing Embers]

A catlinite Falcon bowl.

 

[Hillcrest]

Ah, dang! I want one of those, too!

Maybe they'll do a commemorative !

 

[coming to_falling too]

I've always wanted a Tsuge Ikebana, but I'm not sure if I can justify spending that much on a pipe. Maybe if I come across an estate one of these days that's reasonable.

 

[coming to_falling too]

A catlinite Falcon bowl.

That would be interesting... Have you tried finding someone to work one up for you?

 

[Ahi Ka]

Pretty much anything everything from @ashdigger collection

 

[The Libertine]

Any gourd calabash pipe.

 

[sablebrush52]

Weeeellllll...

Though I'm pretty well set with my little collection, there are a couple of things that I would like to have, but not enough to spend the pile of money required. The first would be a Sixten pipe, as he's the most significant carver of the 20th century, kind of like what J S Bach was to music when Bach created the well tempered scale. His pipes are well above my pay grade.

The other is a "one that got away", a beautiful Barling companion set dated to 1915, my father's birth year. I got into a bidding war with a buyer from Singapore and went to $2800 before coming to my senses and dropping out. That bastard may have "won" but he paid well in excess of twice the market value at that time.

Since then I've acquired a very nice Barling billiard from 1915 that George Dibos restored. Still, that set would have been cool to own.

 

[wyfbane]

Peterson bog oak pipe. You know the one. Clover carved one. That's about only pipe I would want at this point.

Oh, yes. I do know those. That is an excellent choice!

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Were there a pipe I obsessed about, I'd buy it. I'm at a point where I primarily see a pipe as a tool to smoke my tobacco. I certainly enjoy having that tool be a very nice one but the tobacco is more important than the pipe.

 

[Pipke]

An Uncanny?! Materials Sea Witch Oom Paul and an Ardor Volcani whatever...

 

[OzPiper]

A Sven Knudsen swan.

 

[shanez]

Too many to list.

 

[jpberg]

Everyone already knows this, but I still want this Tokutomi that he made from a Bo block.
Yeah, fat chance.

 

[SBC]

I'm more than content with what I have, and now smoke less frequently than I once did, such that I could realistically get by with fewer pipes than I keep.

Still, if you're asking what strikes my fancy just for the fun of it:

• A Peterson 03 bent apple fishtail in Donegal Rocky. This of course is an easily obtainable pipe, I just don't try to justify new pipes anymore.
  
  
• Every time JimInks posts one of his old, long-shanked, silver-banded Peterson Canadians, I feel a unique attraction, and imagine that in another life I might have focused on collecting those.
  
  
• Or for something not obtainable, a dark Manduela bent bulldog with a blue stem, like the one @Ben.R.C has. Just nifty as heck.

But I'm pretty committed to not buying another pipe.

P.S. If I may indulge in a flight of fancy: if there were ever any way of stealing a pipe that had once been owned by C.S. Lewis, I might risk limb and liberty to do so, and then request his intercessions towards my forgiveness.

 

[Bassman65]

1) Peterson Sherlock Holmes 9mm
2) Dunhill Birth Year
3) Vauen Aeunland
4) Stanwell HCA 9mm
5) Rattray Bagpiper
6) Figural 9mm Meerschaum

 

[huntertrw]

What Pipes Do You Wish You Had?​

Any of my late paternal grandfather's pipes. He passed when I was just 10-years-old, and they were simply thrown in the trash. My favorite memories of that man all involve him smoking his pipes. I can still conjure in my mind the delightful aromas of his favorite Half-and-Half and Prince Albert pipe-tobaccos.