What's Your "White Whale" Pipe?

[gnatjulio]

@Uber-as I was scrolling on my phone I thought that was a beer. LOL. A nice tall perfectly poured beer.
As a pipe I would really like. I dig the Bruce Weaver Sandblasted pipes.

 

[ssjones]

Nic, that Howell you posted again really pulls at my heart strings, and I usually don't care for shapes like that. What a blast and finish.

 

[hfearly]

Oh by the way - I forgot to attribute the picture of the Howell clam. It's from Neill Archer Roan's (http://www.apassionforpipes.com/neills-blog/2010/9/23/what-a-blast.html) blog. He is a great master of pipe photography.

 

[weezell]

Birth year 1956 Dunhill(sigh) :worship:

 

[keith929]

My Moby Dick would be any pipe by this deceased master.
http://pipedia.org/index.php?title=Sixten_Ivarsson

 

[cigrmaster]

I am on the hunt for my birth year Dunhill a 1957. It has to be all original, no replaced stems or that kind of thing. It has the be a group 4 or 5 and shape is important. The finish I prefer is shell but will settle for others. I have yet to see even one that is original at any dealer or on ebay. This could take a while.

 

[sjfine]

Enough said.

 

[madmick]

Nording Freehand Highgrade #20. Just so hard to lay down that much coin and even more difficult to smoke it. Its a work of art.

 

[seakayak]

Here you are. It's a Becker and Musico...made in Rome by Paulo Becker. The pipe has always been large on the outside, but small on the inside. Too chunky to clench properly so it requires a free hand. Still, it's a beauty and one of my fat favorites.

 

[uberam3rica]

but also in some way difficult to obtain:

I'd say mine fits into that category. It's part briar, part calabash. It was $145 on ebay, but I didn't have the cash at the time. I would have bought it without thought if I had the money

 

[pipeshark]

A yanik reverse skull. There is one up on his eBay currently. I have seen others that are maybe prettier (ahem... $700 lattice eagle claw there as well), but that skull is about the most figural that I would trust myself to handle and smoke. If you get a chance to check it out it would not be a waste of your time. Admittedly I am on a meer binge currently though so I may be partial. ::

 

[flmason]

The pipes made by Mike Butera and Bo Nordh would be what I desire but could not afford. Plus they are sought after by many and hard to find on the estate market.

 

[rigmedic1]

Been trying to get a Dunhill Cumberland for awhile; that's the one that keeps getting away on the auction sites. I am looking for an Armellini Sumerler pistol grip freehand, but that is more like a unicorn than a white whale.

 

[austinxpipe]

A little clarification on the 'White Whale' idea for me. Would this 'white Whale' be a pipe that would be impossible to find OR impossible to afford relative to us? Both could cause our own destruction, but both could be different pipes...
Edit:
For expensive, I'd say anything by Talbert. Far out of my budget (at least yet!)

 

[shaintiques]

Anything by S. Bang

 

[topd]

I think I may have just got mine.... gotta wait 'til it's shipped.
Pic's later.

 

[oldredbeard]

I got that 1962 (birth year) Dunhill Root Briar I wanted, so I guess my white whale would be any Jess Chonowitsh. Every one I have ever seen was beautiful and way out of my price range. Ahhhhh, maybe some day.

 

[irishsmoker]

Any dunhill would be mine. Every time I find one I can afford it gets just out of reach!

 

[foggymountain]

A Dunhill English Bulldog, which is a bent billiard with a flip back silver cap in the shape of a bulldog head. I very much enjoyed the link about Sixten Ivarsson, above.

 

[joshwolftree]

right now my white whale is somewhere in a house about an house from me that is unlived in and contains three houses worth of stuff...My grandad aparantley smoked a dunhill the entire way through the korean war...it has a fragment of a the mortar round that gave him his purple heart embedded in the side of the bowl. My dad knows it's in the house somewhere but has no idea where. He says pop used to smoke it even after the war so I would assume it's still smokable. we just can't seem to find the dang thing. theres also a dented as hell zippo with his name and unit on it somewhere in the house too. It's not going to be expensive but finding it well thats gonna be the hard part. Trip up this Thursday to help dad out with some stuff needs done up there...maybe this trip I'll find it,sigh...