I am continually impressed by the seemingly endless array of pipe shapes out there - Billiards, Pots, Bulldogs, Apples, Rhodesians, Canadians, Blowfish, Ramses, Cavaliers and so many more! "Pure", or easily classifiable, pipe shapes are fascinating enough; then there are the many crossover or hybrid shapes that seem to encompass characteristics of several classic pipe… Continue reading Another New Shape – Freshening a 1990s Vintage Brigham 360
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Freshening an Andreas Bauer Gourd Calabash
Sharp-eyed readers will have picked out this Gourd Calabash pipe in the picture of my recent estate lot purchase. Hollywood has ensured that the Calabash will be forever linked to the great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, and indeed many Holmes fans buy a Calabash pipe just to display next to their Arthur Conan Doyle book… Continue reading Freshening an Andreas Bauer Gourd Calabash