Your Top 5 Pipes

[telescopes]

Choosing my top 5 was not easy. But, for today, anyway, here they are.


1) Your most elegant pipe


For simple elegance, I have many, but today I choose my Savinelli HCA with a Zulu like bowl. She is a great smoker and has never given me reason to curse her.


or, sure, the Medico. It is always The Pipe. A family heirloom, she came to me during my father and mother's bitter divorce. She smokes HOT< HOT< HOT.

2) Your most true to form (ie classic shape) pipe


Seriously, a Savinelli Bulldog, 32 with saddle stem and straight mouth piece.

3) Your most unique pipe



Most likely my oldest pipe, but also ties for most unique that I own. A CAO Calabash Meerschaum.

Or the Zenith...


4) Your most smoked pipe



A Peterson Limerick, I purchased this pipe from M Cahill, in Limerick. I am saddened that the pipe shop is closed.

5) Your oldest pipe




Not quite my oldest, by close to it. Yes, a Dunhill. I won it in a smoking contest. My first pipe contest at that. I wish I had treated it with a bit more respect through the decades. She saw saw some inter dimensional smokes. A pipe whisper, I always was in the top two.

 

[OzPiper]

Great looking bunch of pipes so far.
I'll have to upload some photos when I get home so I can post.
Keep them coming.

 

[OzPiper]

Choosing my top 5 was not easy. But, for today, anyway, here they are.


1) Your most elegant pipe

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For simple elegance, I have many, but today I choose my Savinelli HCA with a Zulu like bowl. She is a great smoker and has never given me reason to curse her.

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or, sure, the Medico. It is always The Pipe. A family heirloom, she came to me during my father and mother's bitter divorce. She smokes HOT< HOT< HOT.

2) Your most true to form (ie classic shape) pipe

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Seriously, a Savinelli Bulldog, 32 with saddle stem and straight mouth piece.

3) Your most unique pipe

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Most likely my oldest pipe, but also ties for most unique that I own. A CAO Calabash Meerschaum.

Or the Zenith...View attachment 70007


4) Your most smoked pipe

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A Peterson Limerick, I purchased this pipe from M Cahill, in Limerick. I am saddened that the pipe shop is closed.

5) Your oldest pipe

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Not quite my oldest, by close to it. Yes, a Dunhill. I won it in a smoking contest. My first pipe contest at that. I wish I had treated it with a bit more respect through the decades. She saw saw some inter dimensional smokes. A pipe whisper, I always was in the top two.

The Stanwell HCA cutty/belge is a very elegant shape, evocative of the tavern pipes of old.
I have a Stanwell 1992 POTY which looks very similar except for the shorter stem

 

[OzPiper]

My selection :-
1) most elegant : Charatan supreme cutty
2) most true to form : any of my "classic" Bulldogs
3) most unique: ornate Ivory pipe bought in the 1970s when I knew nothing about pipes

 

[OzPiper]

4) most smoked pipe: Georg Jensen - on of the first pipes I bought


5) oldest pipe - a 1884 spigot with diamond shank

 

[OzPiper]

Sorry for the out of sequence and double photos. Doing this on an old I-Pad with a tech-challenged brain - no easy feat !

 

[alaskanpiper]

View attachment 700824) most smoked pipe: Georg Jensen - on of the first pipes I bought View attachment 70083


View attachment 700835) oldest pipe - a 1884 spigot with diamond shank

Have you smoked the ivory pipe? I hear they can emit a sort of burnt hair flavor.

 

[OzPiper]

Have you smoked the ivory pipe? I hear they can emit a sort of burnt hair flavor.

The drilling is so poor that I have not smoked it for 40 years.
I keep it as a reminder of my folly as a youth - form over function is a costly mistake !

 

[Kottan]

My selection :-
1) most elegant : Charatan supreme cutty
2) most true to form : any of my "classic" Bulldogs View attachment 70080
View attachment 700793) most unique: ornate Ivory pipe bought in the 1970s when I knew nothing about pipes

Where did you find the charatan? This is a pretty rare specimen. When it was made, the ‘Supreme‘ was still top of the line until Herman Lane started inventing more and more grades.

 

[ssjones]

1) Your most elegant pipe: James Upshall B Grade Silver Spigot

2) Your most true to form (ie classic shape) pipe - 1950 GBD 9242 - Rhodesian

3) Your most unique pipe- Charatan Countryman

4) Your most smoked pipe - 1998 Ashton Pebble Grain - I've owned this one longer than any others in my collection.

5) Your oldest pipe - Hallmarked 1937 GBD

 

[OzPiper]

Where did you find the charatan? This is a pretty rare specimen. When it was made, the ‘Supreme‘ was still top of the line until Herman Lane started inventing more and more grades.

I found that online from a shop in Italy. Love that graceful shape.
A lot of Lane era Charatans were "clunkers" (just my opinion)

 

[OzPiper]

1) Your most elegant pipe: James Upshall B Grade Silver Spigot
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2) Your most true to form (ie classic shape) pipe - 1950 GBD 9242 - Rhodesian
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3) Your most unique pipe- Charatan Countryman
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4) Your most smoked pipe - 1998 Ashton Pebble Grain - I've owned this one longer than any others in my collection.
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5) Your oldest pipe - Hallmarked 1937 GBD
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Al, I love that GBD 9242.

 

[tzinc]

1) Your most elegant pipe... Castello 55
2) Your most true to form pipe...Rossi Canadian Smooth
3) Your most unique pipe... Nording Freehand
4) Your most smoked pipe... Rossi Canadian Rusticated
5) Your oldest pipe... 1963 Dunhill Prince

 

[Donb1972]

1 My most elegant pipe, a Ropp Honore de Balzac cutty churchwarden


2. My most true to form, my Grandfather's no-name billiard


3. My most unique, my Grandfather's Aristocob


4. My most smoked, my Mr. Brog Morta


5. My oldest is probably the same as either 2 or 3, I'm not sure which is the oldest.

 

[tklee]

Wow..... this dragon pipe is beautiful...... ??? Is it meer pipe?

 

[OzPiper]

Wow..... this dragon pipe is beautiful...... ??? Is it meer pipe?

100% ivory from HK in 1975. Ivory was not a banned material in those days.
It's a folly from my youth.
This pipe is so badly drilled, I have not smoked it in >40 years.
I keep it to remind me that good looks don't = good function.

 

[tklee]

1) My most elegant pipe
2) My most true to form (ie classic shape) pipe

I don't have many pipes. So far, my Peterson I think is the most elegant and most classic shape pipe that I have ?

3) My most unique pipe


4) My most smoked pipe

This category is hard to choose. This is my most smoke pipe at the moment, but it will change after a while ?

5) My oldest pipe

14 years old Big Ben mini pipe. Given to me by my colleague ?

 

[tklee]

100% ivory from HK in 1975. Ivory was not a banned material in those days.
It's a folly from my youth.
This pipe is so badly drilled, I have not smoked it in >40 years.
I keep it to remind me that good looks don't = good function.

? Ivory.... what we called elephant tusks. Back then, everything that made of ivory is very elegant and expensive ?
Yeah.... good look might not functioning well ?, but it's a very beautiful pipe indeed, very. ?

 

[Chasing Embers]

100% ivory from HK in 1975. Ivory was not a banned material in those days.
It's a folly from my youth.
This pipe is so badly drilled, I have not smoked it in >40 years.
I keep it to remind me that good looks don't = good function.

I had a similar straight pipe from Tsuge in the mid nineties. Tasted awful.

Back then, everything that made of ivory is very elegant and expensive

Carvers sometimes still use pre-ban elephant ivory for accents,


wooly mammoth ivory,


and sometimes even hippopotamus tooth.

 

[gamzultovah]

I’m gonna bump this thread so that some of the newer members can chime in. This was a fun topic.