Your Least Expensive Pipe?
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My least expensive pipe would be a Bent Wellington similar to the pipe Lee Van Cleef smokes in Good Bad and the Ugly.i bought it for $30 when I first started pipe smoking.
My least expensive pipe is a $4 BARI Opal Made in Denmark 8421. I bought it at a garage sale recently. I like the shape, and I'm just breaking it in. The book is Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm, for $2 at the same sale. Great book.
Mine is a Kaywoodie I bought for less than $10. I don't know much about it other than it says June Lane on it and it smokes good.
I won an estate for a couple no names and the person thru in this blue ceramic, so I guess that's the cheapest. All my pipes are cheap but this one I use for samples people send that has Latakia in it. This way I can give it a good clean for the next sample. I do have a pipe for my light Latakia blends, but always make sure I don't hit it with a Lat bomb. Couple friends tried to sneak some in on me, and has proved a good pipe.
This is my least expensive pipe(not counting the cobbs, the Grabows and such). It's a old Stanwell I picked up on the bay for less than 15$. It smokes pretty well too.
The least expensive pipe I've bought new (a slightly different category maybe) is a compact bent billiard
from Iwan Ries, which I think was $34, a group 3 and a fine little smoker. Christmas my wife gave me a fine
extra large IR that cost $36. These are not losers. They smoke in rotation and enjoyably with some
handsome Savs and Petersons.
from Iwan Ries, which I think was $34, a group 3 and a fine little smoker. Christmas my wife gave me a fine
extra large IR that cost $36. These are not losers. They smoke in rotation and enjoyably with some
handsome Savs and Petersons.
I went to a tag sale back in the early 1970's on the last day and the sign said everything is half price.
I spotted a Muniemaker cigar box with a bunch of pipes in it that was marked $4.
I immediately spotted the white dot on the stem of one of the pipes, looked through the rest, stayed suprisingly calm and whipped out $2.
I bought home six pipes, a Clean and Ream reamer, a cigar holder and two bottles of Deniclean cleaner.
One pipe was a Wilke oil finish pot. The rest were all black sandblasts. They were a Dunhill 1966 group 4 billiard, a Dunhill 1966 group 4 pot, two Charatan Lane era pots, probably the same age, and a Wally Frank White Bar pot.
I don't smoke the Wilke that much, but the rest are all great smoking pipes.
If you count just the pipes, they came to 33 1/3 cents apiece!
I spotted a Muniemaker cigar box with a bunch of pipes in it that was marked $4.
I immediately spotted the white dot on the stem of one of the pipes, looked through the rest, stayed suprisingly calm and whipped out $2.
I bought home six pipes, a Clean and Ream reamer, a cigar holder and two bottles of Deniclean cleaner.
One pipe was a Wilke oil finish pot. The rest were all black sandblasts. They were a Dunhill 1966 group 4 billiard, a Dunhill 1966 group 4 pot, two Charatan Lane era pots, probably the same age, and a Wally Frank White Bar pot.
I don't smoke the Wilke that much, but the rest are all great smoking pipes.
If you count just the pipes, they came to 33 1/3 cents apiece!
An estate Kaywoodie Billiard I bought at the Richmond Pipe Show years ago for $8 (second down on right side of pic). I originally bought it thinking I would try my hand at refurbishing and reselling on ebay but decided to smoke it after cleaning it and now I would place it as one of my best smokers.
These antique store and yard sale Dunhill stories drive me nuts. All my antique stores and yard sales sell are end tables
and chipped pottery, and when I ask about pipes the expression on the owner's face is as if I had asked to buy a
machine gun. I guess people in my area just don't have a history of pipe smoking. It's cigarette country. Moan.
But keep on telling those stories about the $2 box of Dunhills etc. For me, sweet dreams.
and chipped pottery, and when I ask about pipes the expression on the owner's face is as if I had asked to buy a
machine gun. I guess people in my area just don't have a history of pipe smoking. It's cigarette country. Moan.
But keep on telling those stories about the $2 box of Dunhills etc. For me, sweet dreams.
Thanks -- or not! -- to the Internet, I think we may be seeing the end of these kinds of finds, unless you happen to find yourself at an estate auction. If anything, I think a lot of folks -- and especially antique stores/malls -- are overpricing (or "accurately" pricing) their pipes based on what they see offered on eBay and other sites.
I am constantly on the lookout for pipes at antique stores, and I have yet to find a real treasure that's offered at a bargain price.
Bob
Mine would probably be the $15 saddle bit billiard basket pipe I'm smoking right now lol. I mostly use it as a car pipe but, it smokes very well considering the price and the hell I've put it through over the years.
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