I have an extensive collection I’ve collected over the past twenty five years. I will only post three random items for now, not my rarest, but two are definitely rare. 

The first is quite rare, an unused late 19th century French cigar holder in the shape of a cutty pipe. It’s made out of real amber and sterling silver which by itself makes it pretty cool, but the most interesting thing about that I’ve never seen elsewhere, is it has an early filter concept. The silver ball in the center unscrews and you put a small wad of cotton in it as the filter, change as needed. I need to polish the silver on this some day. 

The next item is a complete replacement meerschaum bowl display. Difficult to date exactly but I will say circa 1910. I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the only complete example left in existence. 

Lastly for now, one that’s not super rare, but speaks to my enjoyment of gadgets. A Phil-O-Matic combination pipe tobacco pouch and automatic bowl filling/packing device. Complete with some old dried out tobacco still in it. Circa 1950’s. 

I think mine is an old pipe I found at a flea market.  I looked it up, it’s called The Doodler. https://pipedia.org/wiki/The_Doodler

The other is an old pipe lighter made by the Nimrod Bolt Co.  This isn’t mine, but looks like this:

 

I have this pipestand which is also an ashtray. My girlfriend found it at a thrift store for €1,50

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This is the pipe of a famous Hungarian author, Istvan Fekete, who I'd describe as the Hungarian Jack London, since he wrote naturalist stories about animals. Unfortunately, they haven't been translated into English, but they are available in German. I was gifted this by his daughter-in-law who was settling the estate, and for some reason museums didn't want his pipe collection. This is the only smokable one, the rest were decorative and probably gifts. There was a massive cake in this pipe, and you can see on the bottom that the vulcanite melted on something hot. I don't know the age on this pipe, but it could be approaching a hundred years old since he started writing in the '30s, however I'd guess it was purchased during the 40's since it's hardwood and the War caused a briar shortage. He put it to great use, and I like to smoke it from time to time for literary inspiration. 

These are the others. The ceramic pipe I would love to smoke, but the stem is long lost and I am not sure where I could go about finding a replacement. The huntsman was poorly constructed with the nails used to attach the metal cap poking out, which is why it is decorative for me. The old man pipe is definitely a work of art, i tried smoking it and it was clear that it wasn't meant to be actually smoked. 

I purchased this little Billiard at an antique store when I was somewhat new to the pipe and was getting cheap estates to learn some restoration. I bought this one for $16. The nomenclature wasn't at all legible, but when I started cleaning it up, I was able to glean the faded Sasieni stamp with the florid "i", the London Made stamp, and the almost entirely lost remnants of a patent number. One Dots weren't around long in the US. Nearly identical to the Dunhill white spot (Sasieni spots were pale blue), Dunhill took action. Trademark Laws being tighter in the US, the One Dot was replaced with other dot configurations in the US market while remaining in the UK. Based on what I can vaguely make of the PA number on mine, it's a US One Dot from the early 20s. If not, pre-WWII British market One Dot—less rare but still quite a find, especially for the expense!

This is a CPF (Colossal Pipe Factory) pipe and it has a stamp on the bowl that says "Patented 1885". I looked up pipe patents from that year and found it. It was portrayed as a design for a pipe that would be easier to clean. To me it seems more like a calabash concept, but whatever. I assume it's from 1885 and wasn't made after the first batch since it seems unnecessarily complicated.

One of my favorite antique meerschaum cutty pipes which I acquired out of a pipe museum’s collection in Switzerland. Italian, approximately 1880. While I have a lot of meerschaum cutty pipes, this one stands out for a few reasons. It’s 14 inches long (about 35cm) and has a genuine red amber stem, the rarest kind of amber. I really like the raked bowl as well. One of these days I will get around to lightly restoring it and use it. 

Okay @Ted, we’re ready to see the next wonder from your personal museum. Don’t hold out on us. 🤠

Here you go @Joseph, here’s two more uncommon pipes. 

This first one is an unsmoked Lancashire Captain Warren/General Dawes pipe, briar with genuine meerschaum bowl. The design was born in the 1920’s to get the best results of a calabash but in a standard size pipe. 

Next, this is my oldest and definitely my favorite to look at (I haven’t smoked it) gourd calabash. It of course has a meerschaum bowl, silver fittings and a real amber stem, all in amazing condition for its age. It’s English. The hallmarks on the silver date it to 1890. 

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Lancashire Captain Warren

...that's very interesting. I wonder if there are more modern (and affordable) examples available. I'd like to get something like this. I'm a fairly wet smoker, and this would definitely keep all the moisture in the bottom chamber below the meerschaum.

Amazed at that very beautiful 1890 meerfschaum, too. Such elegant lines. Perfect, really.

 

Probably the last item I will post in this thread for a while, I would need to start digging through boxes for more, I don’t have most of my collection out on display. 

This is a French briar cutty with Albatross bone and horn stem and nickel fittings. Likely pre-WWI. I have other bird bone stemmed pipes but they are packed away right now, but this is a presentable example. 

I'm impressed with everyone they're showing, it's great that NachO came up with the topic "rare object related to tobacco"

Thanks for sharing these wonders 

Bought this at the Newark pipe show years ago. Not sure what Era it's from but I collect stuff like this when I can find it. It has never been used.

 

Flea market find.