Pipe, Tobacco, and E-Bay Acquisitions

[freemansrus]

Originally Posted by freemansrus

My new Mario Grandi arrived off ebay this morning - i think its beautiful, what do you guys think?

(dont have a good enough camera to take my own pic)

hmm image didn't work...

its about 5.5inches long to get a perspective

[mighty]

Hey all, Ive never used ebay to order anything...ya its true...but I wanted to look at ebay to see what pipes are being offered. Are there certain search terms you prefer to use. I started with Pipe, and got back metal pipes for plumbing and all that, then tried smoking pipe with a little more success but Im sure there is a better way to search for the Pipes we use.

Any thoughts?

Also @ Free, that is a very nice looking pipe!

Mighty

[Hendu3270]

Mike,

When I first started searching for pipes on Ebay, I used "tobacco pipe" and "smoking pipe" as my searches. Then just weeded through the results and have found a few sellers that have stores with pipes that I like. You'll see certain pipes that are repeated over and over again in the results and those are from places in China I think and are like 9.99 with free shipping. You probably aren't looking for those pipes LOL. You can also search "Peterson Pipe", Bjarne", "Dunhill", etc. and get some good results.

[mighty]

Chris, good to know. Ya those China pipes are super tiny if you look at their measurements. Im not sure if they are just trying to sell them based off their image or what.

Thanks again.

Mike

[Mad Hatter]

Here's the link I always use

eBay – stanwell pipe, radice pipe and ferndown pipe items on eBay.com. Find IT on eBay.

To narrow it down and remove a lot of the junk you can click estate on the left hand side or you can search terms like Peterson, Savinelli, Hardcastle (any brand name) or shapes like dublin, billiard, bulldog, etc.

[Mad Hatter]

I ordered the following from marscigars today

1 lb Treasures of Ireland - Limerick
1 lb Hamborger Veermaster
1 lb MacBaren Club Blend
1 lb Kendal Cream Flake
1.5 lb Peter Stokkebye Luxury Twist Flake
1 2oz tin Esoterica Peacehaven
1 100g tin MacBaren Symphony

[mighty]

Originally Posted by Mad Hatter

I ordered the following from marscigars today

1 lb Treasures of Ireland - Limerick
1 lb Hamborger Veermaster
1 lb MacBaren Club Blend
1 lb Kendal Cream Flake
1.5 lb Peter Stokkebye Luxury Twist Flake
1 2oz tin Esoterica Peacehaven
1 100g tin MacBaren Symphony

Looks like a good amount of variety there MadH. Is that Kendal Cream an aromatic? Which of those, or others do you find yourself preferring on a more of a daily basis?

Mike

[DubintheDam]

Just picked this one up....1921...unsmoked silverbanded London made...mint condition...$100. It is a unknown name but it reaks of quality and there aren't to many unsmoked mint condition 1921 pipes around these days....I bought it from a highly reputable ebay seller...James Upshall, no less.

http://www.btinternet.com/~jamesupsh...ilver1w114.jpg

1921 HAND CARVED LONDON MADE KCB BILLIARD S/BAND NOS NR - eBay (item 360153870504 end time May-19-09 09:33:32 PDT)

[Mad Hatter]

Originally Posted by mighty

Looks like a good amount of variety there MadH. Is that Kendal Cream an aromatic? Which of those, or others do you find yourself preferring on a more of a daily basis?

Mike

Some people call KCF an aromatic but I consider it to be a burley blend with a light top flavoring (I'm not much into the "light aromatic" philosophy). I find myself rotating through my tobaccos, normally by the brand but sometimes by the family of tobaccos. I'll smoke a lot of MacBaren blends for a while and then I'll start smoking Sam Gawith for a few weeks or get on a kick for Tillbury, Stonehaven, LTF or other tobaccos.


Great looking pipe there Dub. That's a piece of history for ya!

[KinnScience]

[QUOTE=DubintheDam;2625409]Just picked this one up....1921...unsmoked silverbanded London made...mint condition...$100. It is a unknown name but it reaks of quality and there aren't to many unsmoked mint condition 1921 pipes around these days....I bought it from a highly reputable ebay seller...James Upshall, no less.

QUOTE]

90 yrs old and in that condition? Wow!

Looks like a winner there. You are right, it looks like quality. Seems a few other thought so too. Congratulations on the win.

[commonsenseman]

Originally Posted by DubintheDam

Just picked this one up....1921...unsmoked silverbanded London made...mint condition...$100. It is a unknown name but it reaks of quality and there aren't to many unsmoked mint condition 1921 pipes around these days....I bought it from a highly reputable ebay seller...James Upshall, no less.

http://www.btinternet.com/~jamesupsh...ilver1w114.jpg

1921 HAND CARVED LONDON MADE KCB BILLIARD S/BAND NOS NR - eBay (item 360153870504 end time May-19-09 09:33:32 PDT)

Great looking pipe, I'm jealous!

By the way, love your videos, I've used your salt treatment on several of my e-bay acquisitions!

[DubintheDam]

Many thanks all....I not exactly overloaded with invoices these days...but I just had to go for this one...I couldn't find anything about the maker....but this really was on par with a Dunhill. I highly recommend you take a look at the James Upshall site on ebay...he has seriously good English pipes in great condition.

[Mr Mojo Risin]

nice lookin puffer you found their Dub.
Brian..

[DeadFrog]

Originally Posted by DubintheDam

Just picked this one up....1921...unsmoked silverbanded London made...mint condition...$100. It is a unknown name but it reaks of quality and there aren't to many unsmoked mint condition 1921 pipes around these days....I bought it from a highly reputable ebay seller...James Upshall, no less.

http://www.btinternet.com/~jamesupshallco/KCBsilver1w114.jpg

1921 HAND CARVED LONDON MADE KCB BILLIARD S/BAND NOS NR - eBay (item 360153870504 end time May-19-09 09:33:32 PDT)

She's definitely a beauty, congrats on the new addition!

[smurph]

Originally Posted by dj1340

I have ordered a few pipes from Italy, Poland and Greece. I've had nothing but good luck with my orders. It took on average 15 days to get them shipped but they showed up in great shape. Shipping was reasonable, I think @$12 maybe on most

Thanks DJ. Good info