White Bowl Pipe ID

[buddyc01]

Hi,

Got a pipe from an estate recently and I'd like to know just what I got? It has a wood bowl but on the outside it's white and has a yellow stem. If it's like the other pipes from this estate it may be late 50's/early 60's. No marks that I can see.
Thanks

BuddyC

 

[voorhees]

Looks like meerschaum to me.

 

[warren]

What makes you think the bowl is wood? Looks like a run of the mill meerschaum to me also.

 

[gloucesterman]

Ditto on the meerschaum.

 

[buddyc01]

Ok... probably right. Meerchaum was may initial thought but maybe it's just the way the rim is stained it looks like wood

 

[Chasing Embers]

Scorching and tar around the rim. Definitely meerschaum.

 

[buddyc01]

The plainness of the pipe also tricked me. When I think Meerchaum I always thing of carved shapes and figures

 

[jvnshr]

Meerschaum is mineral that meerschaum pipes are made of, it is not a pipe shape or style. If it is wood, you know how it feels like, if it is meerschaum it will feel like a soft rock.

 

[israel]

Does it say "Austria" inside the bowl?
This looks like it.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Meerschaum. I have one quite like that in size and shape.
You can clean off the rim by carefully scraping it. If it were a valuable pipe, I wouldn't do that, but that pipe is not extraordinary.

 

[jonasclark]

Yes, meerschaum. My guess is it's probably made in Austria in the 1950s. Plastic stem. Nice, simple meer and probably a good smoker, already starting to color. Enjoy it!