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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 šŸ˜. 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.
 
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
 
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.
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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 šŸ˜. 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.

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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?
 
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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
 
Age wise please. Donā€™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...

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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...

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Thatā€™s so cool. It sure looks happy now.
 

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