Interesting Find...

Londy3

So I was running errands today and I found something interesting in a consignment shop. Can anyone identify where this came from? How old is it? What is the value? Is it a knock off from something else?

motie2

I put Gora Pipes into google and came up with similar items.

Here’s one.

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-carved-wood-pipe-bruyere-gora-252772919

Londy3

Crap I have to sign in I to see anything.

thebadgerpiper

Even if it isn't smokable, you've found an awesome mantle piece. That's honestly a cool find.

PappyJoe

@Londy3
I have a similar one. 

1 They are smokeable. The bowl part is briar and the wooden stem is cherrywood. It probably has Bruyere Garantie stamped on the stumble somewhere. That is French for Briar Guaranteed - the European way of saying "genuine briar."

2. I've seen them called Bavarian or Tyrolean pipes. Most often they are referred to as Tyrolean after the Tyrol region of Europe which stretched between Germany, Austria and northern Italy. It is a style of pipe that was popular in Europe in the late 1800s - early 1900s. {There is also a similar type pipe called a Hunter, but they are shorter and are sitter pipes with a metal cap. Those bowls are also briar and it has a cherrywood stem.)

3. If it is stamped Czechoslovakia then it was definitely made after 1918. That's when Czechoslovakia declared its independence from Austria. From the information I researched by talking to antique shop owners and in discussions with older pipe smokers (so take it with a grain of salt) the briar Tyrolean and those made with porcelain bowls found in the U.S. are almost impossible to date because they were mass produced after World War II and sold to U.S. soldiers as souvenirs - like the wooden cuckoo clocks. 

4. The Tyrolean pipes are considered to be the forerunner of the Cavalier style pipes.

Here are two links to blogs talking about Tyrolean pipes:
https://rebornpipes.com/tag/german-tyrolean-pipe/
https://briarfiles.blogspot.com/2008/02/tyrolean-another-kind-of-full-bent.html

A photo of mine. I've only smoked it once after I cleaned the bowl. Now it's just a display pipe.







My two Hunter pipes. The one on the right is a Mr. Brog pear wood pipe. The one on the left is a briar one from Czechoslovakia.

AnantaAndroscoggin

 I've seen the "foot" from one of these pipes listed on eB as an entire pipe, seller having no clue that is is but one piece out of the four that make up a Tyrolean pipe.

Londy3

Cool stuff guys. Thanks for posting. I like learning about interesting finds and the history. 

ghostsofpompeii

I'm pretty sure I've seen the town Burgomaster smoking a pipe like that in an old Universal Frankenstein movie.

motie2

Londy3

What have you found that is really unique and has an interesting history?

thebadgerpiper

I don't have a picture of the pipe, but online I've seen a WW1 briar with the battles it had seen carved into the wood.

motie2

Classic example of hoof and mouth?

RockyMountainBriar

@motie2
Looks like a classic “Speared Fish” to me🙂

Montecristo

Yeah,that works, too. Eye of the beholder, ya know?