The bad thing about buying pipes in antique/collectible shops, flea markets and street fair, is the funky smell in the pipes. I don’t know if the vendors just pipes stored for 10 years in a box filled with dirty socks but they stink. I have actually declined to buy a pipe because it smelled so bad. Yes, I sniff the …
It was a relatively nice and unassuming day when we walked into the antique mall. I wasn’t expecting to find anything. My wife and I were mainly looking to get away from the house for a while and maybe expand her salt and pepper shaker collection. There, in the very back of the building, I found a booth festooned with …
One of my four sisters likes to shop flea markets, street fairs, antique/collectible and junk shops. She recently found a Royal Danish 991R which she gifted to me as a restoration project. In researching the pipe, I’ve found that it is a Ukulele shape designed for Stanwell by Sixteen Iversson. Royal Danish is one of the “seconds” brand of Stanwell …
(In an earlier post, I wrote about buying estate pipes in various types of shops. This is a follow-up to that post.) Collecting estate/used pipes can be frustrating at times when shopping antique and collectible shops. It’s even worse when the shops claim to be antique but are really junktique and flea markets. If you want to purchase a good, …
Here’s the question. When shopping at antique/collectible/flea market/junk shops, how much is too much to pay for a pipe? Of course, the final answer is, “It depends on how much the buyer is willing to spend.” But other than that, how do you determine if the pipe you’re looking at is a good value? I look at different factors when …
This is a cautionary tale about buying “estate” meerschaums at antique/collectible/junk shops… As mentioned in an earlier post, we like to walk around antique/collectible/junk shops, malls and flea markets. I also said most of those pipes are overpriced. I’ve seen briar pipe so dirty you would have trouble fitting a toothpick into the bowl and priced upwards of $75. Look …
I’m one of those pipe smokers who loves shopping for “estate” pipes. The wife and I enjoy walking around so called antique/collectible shops, malls, flea markets and street fairs. I like being able to pick up the various pipes I find and try to identify the maker and age. I have probably 25 rescued pipes I’ve bought from these shops. …
By New Year’s Day, everyone has made a number of New Year Resolution they swear they will keep all year. By January 2, they have ignored those resolutions. This year I made a resolution to not be like everyone else. I resolved to only make pipe smoking resolutions that I know I will or can keep. (Since this is 2018, …
