Your Most Expensive Pipe?

[cigrmaster]

What is your most expensive pipe retail wise, not what you paid for it and is it your best smoker?
My most expensive retail wise is a Jody Davis Cardinal grade that would retail for around 1200.00 or so. I bought it as an estate pipe that was barely smoked and paid 400.00. I do love this pipe and it is one of my best smokers and I rank it in my top tier( I consider my American artisan pipes as my top tier) pipes like my Rads, but I certainly do not think it smokes 3 times better than my brand new Rads. I do feel that I did get a good value at the price I paid, but if I had spend the 1200.00 that it went for new, I would not be a happy camper. So do you guys feel that your most expensive pipe is your best smoker or do you have pipes in your collection that smoke better?
Here are a couple of pics of the pipe.

 

[rmbittner]

Mine seems downright humble by comparison: A smaller-bowled Kai Nielsen that I bought, as an estate pipe, from SmokingPipes.com for $250.00.

If it's not my best smoking pipe -- and it may well be -- it's in the top two. I would definitely snap up any other Kai Nielsens that cross my path. (Plus, I think it's gorgeous.)
Bob

 

[numbersix]

Good topic Harris. Generally speaking I am not a big fan of bamboo on pipes, but that's a beauty. Looks really comfortable to hold too.
The most I paid for a pipe would be my "Bing", a Stanwell 2010 POY designed by Tom Eltang for $200. Happens to be an excellent smoker:

The pipe that is most valuable (both to me and estate market prices) is my Dunhill 835 ODB (paid $157, have seen this pipe sell used for over $300, unsmoked for over $600). It is by far my favorite smoker - this thing practically smokes itself! ::

 

[puffy]

I have two Dunhills.One retailed for $525 the other for $650.Those were 1990 prices.That's when I got them.Of I didn't pay that for them.

 

[philobeddoe]

I have a beautiful high grade Il Ceppo bent apple that I received as a college graduation gift from my mother, so you could say that pipe cost me around $50,000. And yes, it smokes wonderfully.

 

[tbradsim1]

Becker Chubby Morta, 675$, love that stubby shape, just like me. The old Cajun

 

[brassonly]

Hey Cig , that is a very beautiful pipe. I'm still a beginner so don't have much in pipes. My most expensive pipe so far & favourite smoker is a Peterson St. Patricks Day 2012 model.

 

[yadan]

My most expensive pipe is this Kirsten:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Kirsten-estate-metal-pipe-RX-/251219042050?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWNX%3AIT&nma=true&si=wDEjvXwzwWXpF5G3MUtBn9BAa%252Bw%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc
...but it is far from my best smoker, which is this Koolsmoke:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200877057058?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

...costing 1/5th the price!

Just goes to show you...

 

[fishnbanjo]

The Sixten Ivarsson, it cost more than my Jess Chonowitsch and Teddy Knudsen.

and no, I won't say how much it cost......

 

[voorhees]

I'm guessing this little patent Dunhill from 1926. Seems the value could be up to $300.

 

[cigrmaster]

fishnbanjo, is your Ivarsson your best smoker?

 

[trailspike48]

Bradley, is that big pipe a morta? It's a beauty.
This is my highest priced pipe and the one I paid the most for. I bought it as an estate pipe, had it cleaned and polished by Mike Myers, at Walker Briar Works. And now it intimidates me, and I haven't smoked it, YET. It is a Savinelli Autograph grade 000. I paid about 1/5 or less the cost of a new grade 000. It is a pre 1883, no filter and a vulcanite stem.

I suppose I'm a wussy for not lighting it up, I'll light it some day, just not today.

 

[fishnbanjo]

cigrmaster,

It's in the top 5, actually top 3 if you disregard the Morta's it would be my Rainer Barbi, the Anne Julie and the Sixten Ivarsson. It would be hands down the most comfortable followed closely by the Tsuge Tankard, both just hang w/o the need to clench.

 

[philobeddoe]

Trailspike, that's a beautiful pipe, there's no hurry, smoke it when your ready.

 

[alexl]

This one.
Nothing special,though. After this I do not buy Savinellis.

 

[erichbaumer]

So far, it's just the Peterson System 312, bought new for just shy of $100, so nothing special. When I'm out of college, though... Let's just say this thread's got me thinkin!

 

[teufelhund]

My most expensive pipe is an heirloom ivory calabash that I inherited. I know nothing about it whatsoever other than it is a very large calabash, is made of ivory, predates WW1 and has never been smoked that I know of. It sits in a cabinet at my mother's house because I did not see the need to disturb it, but the weight of the ivory alone makes it more valuable than any of my pipes. Needless to say it is not my best smoker, (I heard they don't smoke very well anyway) but it sure is pretty to look at.

 

[peckinpahhombre]

My most expensive and best pipe is my Asshton Pot pipe. $12,000 new. I love it though because it makes the Mixture 79 I love so much actually smell better. Pic below.

 

[hfearly]

My most expensive and best pipe is my Asshton Pot pipe. $12,000 new. I love it though because it makes the Mixture 79 I love so much actually smell better. Pic below.

:rofl: :rofl: :laughat: :crazy:

 

[teufelhund]

That is a great pipe peck :rofl: