What's your oldest pipe

MLBbreton · Dec 15, 2024

As you have probably guessed I love old pipes. They make me feel something I don't get with a new one. Don't get me wrong. I have two new pipes I'm lusting over, but not yet. They require disposable income

. Well truth be told so do the old ones.

So as the title says...What's your oldest pipe (pictures please) and tell us it's story. Any little tid bits that you can recall. How you came about owning it. What do you smoke in it and when do you smoke it.
I'll grab mine out of the gun safe tomorrow and post a picture.
I can't wait for this thread to start posting.

AlphaWarrior · Dec 15, 2024

Mine is a CPF bulldog with gold accents and a replacement ebonite orific stem with push tenon in the toffee color. I'll have to get a proper picture, but didn't want to leave you hanging.

Matt

MLBbreton · Dec 15, 2024

AlphaWarrior said:
Mine is a CPF bulldog with gold accents and a replacement ebonite orific stem with push tenon in the toffee color. I'll have to get a proper picture, but didn't want to leave you hanging.

Matt

Thanks can't wait to see the picture.

Singed · Tuesday at 8:22 AM

I can't be sure when I purchased this figure meer but I know it precedes 2000. The only other I have from that period is my Tomato meer which I received as a gift for completing my M. A. in 1998, several years after I bought the Figure meer.

peter cornbriar · Tuesday at 9:13 AM

MLBbreton said:
As you have probably guessed I love old pipes. They make me feel something I don't get with a new one. Don't get me wrong. I have two new pipes I'm lusting over, but not yet. They require disposable income . Well truth be told so do the old ones.

So as the title says...What's your oldest pipe (pictures please) and tell us it's story. Any little tid bits that you can recall. How you came about owning it. What do you smoke in it and when do you smoke it.
I'll grab mine out of the gun safe tomorrow and post a picture.
I can't wait for this thread to start posting.

Pictured for your consideration:
Swiss Jaeger or Hunter pipe. Also known as Bohemian pipe and one other name.
Owner may have been purchased in souvenir shop or tobacco shop.
Age of pipe is hard to say, I figure 60-70 years old. Was smoked, I figure just once or twice.
I do smoke in it. The hole at he bottom of bowl is not redeemed out properly, I get a lot of tar build up if I do not meticulously clean it after each smoking session.
Got it free as an extra, along with a handsome meerschaum carved face pipe when I purchased an older, all - in - one pipe stand with glass tobacco jar with lid in middle off Craig's List. If one has good vision one can see it's swiss made with stamp under brass ring on top, maker's mark in oval stamp reads B.B.K. One can see from the photos that the stem tip has been worn down by myself after only smoking it a few times, which leads me to believe the stem is natural material, perhaps deer horn. Notice how meticulously the chain is attached to the functional pipe top cap and the stem on the opposite end.

OK, MLBreton, will that do?

Idlefellow · Tuesday at 12:05 PM

Oldest actual age-wise or collection-wise?

MLBbreton · Tuesday at 3:06 PM

peter cornbriar said:
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Pictured for your consideration:
Swiss Jaeger or Hunter pipe. Also known as Bohemian pipe and one other name.
Owner may have been purchased in souvenir shop or tobacco shop.
Age of pipe is hard to say, I figure 60-70 years old. Was smoked, I figure just once or twice.
I do smoke in it. The hole at he bottom of bowl is not redeemed out properly, I get a lot of tar build up if I do not meticulously clean it after each smoking session.
Got it free as an extra, along with a handsome meerschaum carved face pipe when I purchased an older, all - in - one pipe stand with glass tobacco jar with lid in middle off Craig's List. If one has good vision one can see it's swiss made with stamp under brass ring on top, maker's mark in oval stamp reads B.B.K. One can see from the photos that the stem tip has been worn down by myself after only smoking it a few times, which leads me to believe the stem is natural material, perhaps deer horn. Notice how meticulously the chain is attached to the functional pipe top cap and the stem on the opposite end.

OK, MLBreton, will that do?

Heck yeah thanks for the post

MLBbreton · Tuesday at 3:07 PM

Idlefellow said:
Oldest actual age-wise or collection-wise?

Age wise please. Don’t forget the story.

Idlefellow · Tuesday at 4:45 PM

MLBbreton said:
Age wise please. Don’t forget the story.

Probably this Peterson billiard. Although I really have no idea of its actual age, it's obviously been around a while. Found it at a flea market; the bowl has been over-reamed, all the stampings are nearly worn off, the silver band was rolling around loose on the shank, and it has a crack at the back of the bowl. Despite all that it smokes great and is a favorite...

MLBbreton · Tuesday at 4:46 PM

Idlefellow said:
Probably this Peterson billiard. Although I really have no idea of its actual age, it's obviously been around a while. Found it at a flea market; the bowl has been over-reamed, all the stampings are nearly worn off, the silver band was rolling around loose on the shank, and it has a crack at the back of the bowl. Despite all that it smokes great and is a favorite...

That’s so cool. It sure looks happy now.

RudyN · Tuesday at 10:42 PM

My oldest Pipe is a Peterson from 1930/31. I don't have the history for the pipe as I bought it as an Estate Pipe on Ebay.

Timbo · Tuesday at 10:53 PM

Mine is a smooth Pete 317 stamped "made in Eire" which dates it to 1937-41 or thereabouts.

Surrey · Wednesday at 12:43 PM

This BBB pipe has the silver hallmarks of Birmingham UK dated 1911. The pipe is a dream to smoke.

Swede · Wednesday at 1:28 PM

Mine would be this Yello-Bole Honey Cured Briar 2213B (a precusor to the 13B?) which is supposed to be from the 1920's to 1930's time period. I sought this out after reading @JimInks post about old Yello-Bole pipes, and I found it on xBay. It came from near Knoxville, TN. To me, it is one of the best examples of the author shape. It smokes wonderfully.

Balisong · Wednesday at 6:23 PM

I think this is my oldest pipe,

Marked as an Irish Made K&P Peterson 999.

D.L.Ruth · Wednesday at 7:32 PM

Balisong said:
I think this is my oldest pipe,
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Marked as an Irish Made K&P Peterson 999.

Looks to be in good condition for being made way back in 999. Boy they knew how to make things that last

Timbo · Thursday at 4:02 AM

Forgotten about this meer as it was tucked away. Jesse guessed this one to be from 1880 to 1920 or so. No stampings so no info on it but it's a great smoke and feels really nice in the hand. The stem I think is glass, it is too hard to be amber and doesn't generate static electricity.

ralphmcculley · Thursday at 10:49 AM

My oldest pipe is one of the first runs of the Linkman pipes from Chicago. I had it completely restored.

ReB · Thursday at 3:56 PM

My oldest pipe is this meer figure of an Egyptian queen with the crown of cobras. I bought it new from a little pipe shop in Providence, RI while a student at URI about 1969, making it about 55 years old. It's been back and forth to McMurdo Station Antarctica 6 time while deployed as a photographer's mate during Operation Deepfreeze 1972 thru 1974. It is and excellent smoker that I usually reserve for my goto English/Balkan blends.

Timbo · Saturday at 1:26 AM

Some lovely pipes on display people.

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