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Take away the gold band & the white spot and it doesn't have that much on my Sasquatch.

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I haven't seen your Sas, but that Dunhill has spectacular angel hair straight grain
 
Well, it does say " 1 of 1" on the shank so you'll have a true one-off that no one else would have . Got to sty up with ones priorities in life :twisted:  :twisted: 
 
Whatever you think of the pipe, wouldn't it suck to be the guy who apparently got outbid by $.01 on a $6,100.00 pipe?
 
That Dunnie is a super nice piece of wood. Very, very finely grained. 6000 bucks worth? Well, someone thinks so.
 
Yak":vwcuzq0f said:
Very strange.
I went back just now to find the threads & link to them.
In this thread
http://brothersofbriar.forumotion.com/t23822-todd-bannards-let-s-see-em
I posted a link to this thread
http://brothersofbriar.forumotion.com/t23265-sasquatch
When I click on it, what comes up is
The topic or post you requested does not exist
The second thread has been similarly erased.
Somebody here must like me even more than I suspected  :lol: 
Or else he's got a grudge with Sas ?  :scratch: 
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I don't think anyone's messing with you Yak. That post was in the midst of the "New Editor for Forumotion" surprise for the forum last month when everything got screwed up and the format got tweaked. . I lost a pic I had posted at that time too.
 
I agree it's a gorgeous pipe, and I wasn't Dunhill bashing (I like em well enough), but you could see the bidding frenzy coming a mile off on this one.

One of one, made specially for Iwan Ries for an anniversary. I don't know if the shop stamping on the gold band helps or detracts from the value, honestly. The grain is pretty damned nice. Pipe is probably worth close to a grand without that white dot and those stars.

Definitely a collectors pipe. I'd smoke it and ruin it.
 
Puff Daddy":t2f3vqot said:
Definitely a collectors pipe. I'd smoke it and ruin it.
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Same here :twisted:  But then we are Pipe Smokers, not Collectors :twisted:  :twisted: 
 
DR (Dead Root) Dunhills almost always bring outrageous prices. Unsmoked DR's don't show up very often. Like Sas said, wonderful pipe - but $6k wonderful? Only to the right collector. I suspect this one will never see a match.
 
riff raff":qyu7bsrn said:
...this one will never see a match.  
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I'd have Kyle christen it with his beloved Borkum Riff. If you're going to deflower and defile something, do it with some authority.
 
Puff Daddy":oktiiwcj said:
BTW, this collectors chaser special shouldn't go unmentioned.

First Ashton ever carved
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I was following this one, just out of curiosity, it went for a bit over 3K. As far as the Dunhill, I would think the Iwan Reis detracts from it a bit. Some people can spend 6K on a pipe like I spend $50, doesn't matter.
 
I agree the selling price of this pipe was ridiculous. It was a tremendously grained piece however and probably the nicest Dunhill I ever saw, but still. I do not understand how someone could buy a pipe with no intention of ever smoking it. There are cooler useless objects of art you could frivolously spend your money on if you just want to look at them. A pipe is a tool for smoking tobacco.
 
The gold band (check the fit !)* is guilding the lilly, IMO. Like eye-catching jewelry on a woman so beautiful she doesn't need it.

In the traditional aesthetic, silver (and more often, nickel silver) bands were put on exceedingly plain and/or rusticated pipes to make them look like they had something going for them.

Grain that nice doesn't need attention distracted from it.

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*Not only is the shank not quite round (gap), but the band's applied over it, which is the way you do a repair band.

The shank end under a band made integrally is turned down by the thickness of the band, with the result that there's no step up at the edge of it.
 
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