@PappyJoe If I had that many good looking pipes put in front of me every month, I'd have to come out of retirement to get extra cash to cover the debt I would accrue...
@KA9FFJ LOL. I posted the photos on Facebook and my wife sent a message asking, “Did you pick out a pipe you want?” Second message was what price range and that she doesn’t like the “bumpy” ones.
She then asked, “Christmas or birthday?”
She decided I will get the Peterson Sherlock Holmes Original as a present in either December or January.
Ah @PappyJoe obviously your wife's a keeper. Maybe you should push the situation and tell her you were thinking of TWO (Christmas AND birthday) rather than just one. You never know, a good mood day and she might go along with it. Knowing my wife, I kind of doubt it though...😏
@PappyJoe Hey, just tell her the “Mycroft” and “Baskerville” are part of the set, and like with rescue animals sometimes, the should stay together🙂. I’d hate to have you push your luck though, it’s great your wife supports you pipe collecting🙂
The first year I started this journey one of the local shops “Stogie’s” had a pipe openhouse (I guess that’s what it would be called?)…anyway a tep was there with L’Antra pipes, the were both humongous and expensive fir someone just starting out anyway. I did not get one. I did win a door prize of a black crackle Zippo pipe lighter and brought home several tobacco samples. I remember it is where I first tried “Beacon” and “Beacon Extra”. I liked “Beacon” and soon after ordered a tin. Oh how I wish I had ordered more😢. I conserve it and smoke it sparingly. I still have some of that tin left, it’s been jarred nearly 10 years. Since I open it occasionally, it has not aged as it would in an unopened tin, but it keeps getting better each time I smoke it.
@PappyJoe Yes, I understand that, I pretty much re-drill the airway, chamfer the tenon, taper drill the stem, do something, to every Pete I get. That Barley Spigot I have still pisses me off every time I see it. It does smoke very well now after I straightened it out…literally. I wish I had not chamfered the bowl rim though. I like the look, but after topping the rim to get it “squared up” with the shank/stem, it lost a bit of chamber height, chamfering the rim exacerbated it😖. It’s a much “shorter” (pun intended) smoke than it should be.
@opipeman I did not "buy" one myself. My wife did authorize me to spend the money to buy a Sherlock Holmes Original with Sterling Silver band. If I behave myself she will either put it under the Christmas tree for me or give it to me for my birthday in January.
@RockyMountainBriar - Which is why I only have two Petersons in my current collection - an old Peterson Kapp-Royal sold as a store pipe by Iwan Ries (I hate autocorrect. Had to type that three times.) and a Peterson Fermoy - which was a birthday present two years ago.
I finally got them all! I bought this WDC store display six years ago. I then realized that I had one or two of the pipes that belonged in this case in my collection already. I have just this week, completed the full six pipe set. All of these pipes are WDC Milano with the “Hesson Guard” (Patent Dec. 22, 1925) that have threads in the wood of the shank (no aluminum insert) and the one piece aluminum “Hesson Guard” in the stem, the white WDC Triangle Stem Logo is on the top of the stem. Later models (which are still probably from the 1940’s or earlier) have a threaded aluminum insert in the shank, and the stem logo is on the side of the stem. This display, and these pipes are probably from the the late 1920’s to the mid/late 1930’s? I wish the store display still had the gold foil edging on the glass, and the decal that is missing, top center of the display…but hey, it’s getting close to 100 years old. I have collected a few pipes from the same series as well. The medium straight billiard 1524, the large straight billiard (the number and most of the stampings have all been buffed off, or nearly so, there is still a faint WDC inside the triangle logo on the left shank), the bent Zulu has had all of the stamping buffed off, but I believe it to be a 1547, the stem bend may have relaxed slightly over time, the bend is there, but not as pronounced. The little bent billiard is a 1557 duplicate.
@RockyMountainBriar Outstanding and happy for you brother. What a great collection! So happy to see you got my Christmas gift early. I'll send you my mailing address and I'll pay for the postage...😏
I didn't know if you saw this or not; he recommends owning 730 pipes...two for each day of the year, plus you need 2 for leap years...so, you'd better get on it
@vtgrad2003, @RockyMountainBriar; 730 pipes? I won't live long enough to buy that many pipes, let alone smoke each one. Besides, my bride would have me committed, as well she should.
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Those are beauties. Good to have you back, continue to heal up, Brother.
If I had that many good looking pipes put in front of me every month, I'd have to come out of retirement to get extra cash to cover the debt I would accrue...
LOL. I posted the photos on Facebook and my wife sent a message asking, “Did you pick out a pipe you want?”
Second message was what price range and that she doesn’t like the “bumpy” ones.
Maybe you should push the situation and tell her you were thinking of TWO (Christmas AND birthday) rather than just one.
You never know, a good mood day and she might go along with it.
Knowing my wife, I kind of doubt it though...😏
Hey, just tell her the “Mycroft” and “Baskerville” are part of the set, and like with rescue animals sometimes, the should stay together🙂. I’d hate to have you push your luck though, it’s great your wife supports you pipe collecting🙂
It's blessed you are to have such a fine wife. By the by, which one did you buy for myself?
Yes, I understand that, I pretty much re-drill the airway, chamfer the tenon, taper drill the stem, do something, to every Pete I get. That Barley Spigot I have still pisses me off every time I see it. It does smoke very well now after I straightened it out…literally. I wish I had not chamfered the bowl rim though. I like the look, but after topping the rim to get it “squared up” with the shank/stem, it lost a bit of chamber height, chamfering the rim exacerbated it😖. It’s a much “shorter” (pun intended) smoke than it should be.
I did not "buy" one myself. My wife did authorize me to spend the money to buy a Sherlock Holmes Original with Sterling Silver band. If I behave myself she will either put it under the Christmas tree for me or give it to me for my birthday in January.
@RockyMountainBriar - Which is why I only have two Petersons in my current collection - an old Peterson Kapp-Royal sold as a store pipe by Iwan Ries (I hate autocorrect. Had to type that three times.) and a Peterson Fermoy - which was a birthday present two years ago.
It's a cold hearted man you are.
From my discussion with the Laudisi rep last night, you may not be that far off.
I have collected a few pipes from the same series as well. The medium straight billiard 1524, the large straight billiard (the number and most of the stampings have all been buffed off, or nearly so, there is still a faint WDC inside the triangle logo on the left shank), the bent Zulu has had all of the stamping buffed off, but I believe it to be a 1547, the stem bend may have relaxed slightly over time, the bend is there, but not as pronounced. The little bent billiard is a 1557 duplicate.
Outstanding and happy for you brother.
What a great collection!
So happy to see you got my Christmas gift early.
I'll send you my mailing address and I'll pay for the postage...😏
Well done Lad!
Not exactly a tobacco pipe, but interesting non the less.
Very interesting...
Very interesting, especially the statistics that indicate the sale of meerschaum pipes will continue to go up.
Tnx again...
How many pipes *should* you own?
730 pipes? I won't live long enough to buy that many pipes, let alone smoke each one. Besides, my bride would have me committed, as well she should.
@vtgrad2003
I have not added a bunch of new and “new to me” pipes to my list yet. I gotta be close.