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[desertpiper]

I was going through an antique store with my wife in Cotton Wood, AZ on a camping trip last week. When a came across a pipe that caught my eye. It is a Ben Wade, Golden Walnut. Good pipe maker right? Any way I paid $8.00 for it and took it home. Out of curiosity I looked it up on eBay. And what do I find, The same pipe, The shape is almost the exact same (I included a pic of the eBay pipe as well). This pipe is listed at $179.00 either this pipe is over priced or I made a great find (I'm thinking great find). Let me know what you think.





and now the eBay pipe:


I know my pipe needs some TLC, But all things considered, it's in really good shape. I thought maybe the rim was damaged, but the eBay pipe is the same way.

 

[dkj42]

Areally great find - especially for $8. :cheers:

 

[Steveaux]

You win.

 

[Slide]

Great Find definately

 

[Harlock999]

$8 bucks is a pretty good snag!

 

[Richard Hester]

I would have to say you won :cheers:

 

[Briar Spirit]

Gorgeous grain and a very pleasing hint of plateaux on the bowl rim, you got yourself a heck of a find right there, congratulations on a marvellous find.

 

[Jers]

Looks like a win brother - congratulations! :cheers: :cheers:

Fraternally

Jers

 

[kaiser83]

Awesome find, Ben Wade's smoke darn well too. Congrats.

 

[user 2031]

No way I would have passed that up! Nice find! :cheers: :cheers:

 

[Boulder&Briar]

Amazing find brother! Congrats! I'm still searching in all the small old antique stores hoping to find a dunhill, pete, stanwell, a Downie or a RAD would be a dream come true. :lol!:

 

[docwatson]

That's a super find at the right price. There's a significant collector base out there for Preben Holm and Ben Wade pipes, this particular pipe was probably made by Preben. I suggest you go to eBay and check out the completed auctions check the box on the lower left side of the page to see exactly what prices were realized for a Golden Matt pipe. This should give you a comparative price value. Congrats on a nice Wade.
Doc

 

[Growley]

Yeah, that's a great find. I got my Ben Wade the same way, but I paid $20 for mine if I remember right. Mine smokes terrible, probably the worst gurgle offender I have. It must have been a "friday" pipe. Hopefully yours was made like on a Tuesday or Wednesday

She'll buff up nicely too. With a little elbow grease you could make that beauty shine! Man, now I might have to go hit the antique store today....

Nice find!

Brian.

 

[Ocelot55]

Yeah, that's a great find. I got my Ben Wade the same way, but I paid $20 for mine if I remember right. Mine smokes terrible, probably the worst gurgle offender I have. It must have been a "friday" pipe. Hopefully yours was made like on a Tuesday or Wednesday

She'll buff up nicely too. With a little elbow grease you could make that beauty shine! Man, now I might have to go hit the antique store today....

Nice find!

Brian.

"Friday pipe": now that's funny. Oh, and Brian, please hit up some antique stores. We all remember what happened lat time when you did! :mrgreen:

 

[desertpiper]

Every time my wife wants to go to an antique store I'm more than happy to go. I'm always looking for pipes and pipe stuff there. There's usually a good chance they don't know what they have.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

The antique stores here are awful. It's glorified thrift garbage for ten times the price. I usually find Dr Grabow pipes with stems chewed in half for $50. ale: Once in a while I'll find a lighter or some cool old casino ashtray, but it's pathetic around here.

Those of you with sweet finds, enjoy them while they last: people are getting hip to the pipe collectability, and you'll say to yourself, "...man, I never see anything except Dr Grabow pipes with stems chewed in half for $50..." :lol:

8)
(missed the estate pipe boat here...)

 

[desertpiper]

There were three other pipes there. Those three had there stems chewed through. and looked like crap. But behind them, I found this one. persistence counts. I haven't had much luck in Tucson either.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

There were three other pipes there. Those three had there stems chewed through. and looked like crap. But behind them, I found this one. persistence counts. I haven't had much luck in Tucson either.

Anywhere there's a significant hipster populous means slim-pickin's in the junk stores. :| Kind of sad, but meh. Persistence is pretty key. I have a couple of no-name pipes that I managed to find, but many of them I gave to guys to interest them in pipes.

8)

 

[Anonymous]

You guys are in the wrong kind of places, probably. By the time your locales started getting really populated, the old farts who smoked pipes were either starting to vanish, or stayed home.

:cat: :face: :study:

 

[desertpiper]

I live in an area where the snow bird season is now in full swing. Which means we're flooded with golden oldies. And the nearest town is pretty much a retirement only town. Still hard to find good pipes in antique stores.