Another flea market maybe 29 years ago.

Hey Lee  .... i noticed you haven't share none of your rare gems here in this thread, my friend.
The community want to know what is your old/precious/strange pipe related object. 

Don´t hide them from us mate!

Probably not rare but more curiosities, I recently bought these two pipes from Dutch Marktplaats (marketplace, everyone slings all sorts on it 🙂 )

They look, of course, unfinished but they were stained and polished all over so that would point to the maker wanting them like that.

Or perhaps they were rejects he didn't want to finish and somebody else did the staining/polishing...who knows.

The inscriptions read "Pipe de Roi" on one side and "A.P. Bourgeois, St Claude" on the other and Google came up with some information about it:

https://pipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_de_Roi

I started smoking the blond pipe and it is fine, shame it doesn't easily pass the pipe cleaner test.

The dark one is as yet unsmoked.

I paid only €45 for the two, not bad

Since I just got a new addition to my collection, which I posted in the new pipe thread, I pulled out my now three unsmoked Ehrlich custom ordered unsmoked meerschaum pipes. These were made in the late 1960’s to early 70’s. These pipes are generally rare to begin with but these are incredibly rare shapes. I have eleven vintage Ehrlich’s now. It’s taken me 25 years to collect them. I regularly smoke a couple of them, a Canadian and an apple, but these are unused and I don’t know if I’ll ever bring myself to smoke them, although the cutty calls to me often. 

Just something fun, an African whole gourd calabash. If I ever run across the right gourd, I’m going to make one like this for kicks. 

My childhood was filled with Sherlock Holmes- I even had a costume complete with my first pipe. Definitely a huge influence on my picking up pipe smoking later on. I just found on old cassette collection featuring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in a box under the stairs while I was looking for something else. I imagine that it is fairly rare and it is tobacco related to me, at least. 

Once we got a lot of new members let see what they can bring to this thread.  

Well that seems like a challenge! 😃

I reached into a box and pulled out two pipes. This first one is a French meerschaum swan neck, with amber stem, likely 1880’s. Aside from swan neck pipes being uncommon, (difficult to make) this one is huge. I put an Orlik next to it for size comparison. The Orlik is on the larger size at 6 1/2 inches long. 

The second is a massive German pipe, likely turn of the century, UNSMOKED. Complete with clean out tap. It’s about 26 inches long total.