what is your latest pipe purchase

[Ropey]

Thought this was pretty funky. Pigskin-wrapped, meerschaum-lined Dr. Hardy from at least 20 years ago. Unsmoked. Never seen anything quite like it. ~$40 shipped.

[NeverBend]

No idea what they are, but at less than $20 each, I couldn't resist.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/estate-tobac...vip=true&rt=nc

Hi Warren,

Looks like a nice lot of pipes. The two on the right look like Alpha made (Israel) that were good values in the 1980s (perhaps when these guys are from). The one on the left (sandblast, full bent) appears to have a hallmark so you should be able to date that it you wish and this site might be helpful:
http://www.925-1000.com/

Please let us know how they smoke and when the hallmarked pipe was made (if you discover the date) and enjoy them.

Pete

[NeverBend]

Thought this was pretty funky. Pigskin-wrapped, meerschaum-lined Dr. Hardy from at least 20 years ago. Unsmoked. Never seen anything quite like it. ~$40 shipped.

Hi Ropey,

I don't know the brand (Hardy) but it looks like a nice find and at a good price. Please let us know how it smokes and enjoy.

[NeverBend]

I swear that I'm no longer bidding, I have PAD but it's under control but it wasn't as evidenced by close to 30 pipes waiting for restoration so you guys understand the depths of my sickness. Had to buy a car, had to stop the PAD. Done.

No more bids but on eBay some auctions last a week or more. I knew that I had bid on the Jacopo (below) but I completely forgot that I had a low 'place-holder' bid on this Barling and I'd forgotten about it until I got an email saying that I purchased it. Had to man up and pay for it, wait for the pipe, restore it and smoke it. PAD destroys. I like destruction but I promise that my PAD is under control from now on. Really, I do.

Yes, there is one other item that i will bid on but that's an excepton. No more PAD.

[JustTroItIn]

No more PAD.

I remember saying that. Nice Barling!

[Ropey]

I don't know the brand (Hardy) but it looks like a nice find and at a good price. Please let us know how it smokes and enjoy.

Thanks. Dr. Hardy pipes used to be seconds for the Lorenzo factory. Apparently they stopped making Dr. Hardys in the mid-1990s from what I've read.

The leather- and pigskin-clad look was a fad in the 1960s and 1970s, but I'd be surprised if this one were that old. Most of those were brown-leather wrapped and usually made in France. I've never cared much for the brown leather wrapped ones, but this one is black and unlike any pipe I've ever seen. I was looking for a meerschaum-lined pipe and this was one of the least expensive new ones on ebay (the estate ones looked terrible).

I'm not even entirely sure if the wood is briar since the seller didn't describe it very thoroughly. Will have to see what it's like when it arrives.

[Branzig]

I swear that I'm no longer bidding, I have PAD but it's under control but it wasn't as evidenced by close to 30 pipes waiting for restoration so you guys understand the depths of my sickness. Had to buy a car, had to stop the PAD. Done.

No more bids but on eBay some auctions last a week or more. I knew that I had bid on the Jacopo (below) but I completely forgot that I had a low 'place-holder' bid on this Barling and I'd forgotten about it until I got an email saying that I purchased it. Had to man up and pay for it, wait for the pipe, restore it and smoke it. PAD destroys. I like destruction but I promise that my PAD is under control from now on. Really, I do.

Yes, there is one other item that i will bid on but that's an excepton. No more PAD.

Excellent Barling Pete. Unexpected, but I am sure it will be money well spent.

If you need me to buy you out on this, or put that Coral sticker on that Jacopo stem for ya, let me know

[Alligator Gar]

Excellent Barling Pete. Unexpected, but I am sure it will be money well spent.

If you need me to buy you out on this, or put that Coral sticker on that Jacopo stem for ya, let me know

If either one of you come across a decent bent apple I'll help you make bank. Any condition other than broke (the pipe, not the buyer.)

[BryGuySC]

Got this pipe stand and four pipes for under $25. Couldn't pass up at least one bid. Won with the one minimum bid.
Looking forward to restoring them.

[NeverBend]

This was the exception that I mentioned, and I'd have bought it even if I were destitute.

Savinelli Fitsall Reamer


The rest of the lot is, literally, garbage but the Fitsall Reamer is an item has great meaning to me. I looked for one for so long that finally just stopped looking until last week when a kind gent pointed me towards this one on eBay..

I signed onto Puff forum in 2009 but I didn't stay long. When I returned in 2014 my first post was to ask if anyone knew where I could get one of these reamers and though no one knew anything about them, I did hang around long enough to meet @Branzig and @freestoke and I feel fortunate to have stayed to meet the rest of the good folks, now here on Cigar Bum.

Happens to be the best reamer I ever used and I've probably reamed over 1,000 pipes with one. I had two of them (if it's good - do it twice) but my former partner made off with them (that's the least of what he made off with) but it's like getting a little piece of myself back.

So I've come full circle here on Cigar Bum. Brandon, this is what I was looking for.