Pipe, Tobacco, and E-Bay Acquisitions

[Requiem]

Originally Posted by louistogie

How do you find this stuff on ebay?

Not on e-bay, but on a trip to Spain.
You can see more details in here: --» Self review: Requiem
as well as some images of my newest aquisitions.

[sounds7]

Yep, Orlik Dunhill is still available in Europe. Sucks that i havent been there in 3 years. I have got to get a ticket.

[MarkC]

Woohoo...got my winnings from my first venture into eBay pipe lot bidding today! Three no-name pipes (a prince, a cool freehand sitter that is marked Israel (Shalom Pipes, I guess; isn't that the only pipe manufacturer there?) and a butt-ugly bent billiard that's part smooth, part rusticated (probably end up being the best smoker, right?). Plus a nice St. Ives (Tinderbox) bent bulldog (I love bent bulldogs for some reason) and *tada!* a Savinelli Oscar that I guess is kind of a square-shanked billiard. All for less than half the price of a new Savinelli Oscar! That went well. I should probably never try this again and stay ahead of the game...

[KevinV]

Originally Posted by MarkC

Woohoo...got my winnings from my first venture into eBay pipe lot bidding today! Three no-name pipes (a prince, a cool freehand sitter that is marked Israel (Shalom Pipes, I guess; isn't that the only pipe manufacturer there?) and a butt-ugly bent billiard that's part smooth, part rusticated (probably end up being the best smoker, right?). Plus a nice St. Ives (Tinderbox) bent bulldog (I love bent bulldogs for some reason) and *tada!* a Savinelli Oscar that I guess is kind of a square-shanked billiard. All for less than half the price of a new Savinelli Oscar! That went well. I should probably never try this again and stay ahead of the game...

Nice job...glad you're happy with your score! It's always a good feeling to get a good deal.

I love getting pipes on Ebay and then restoring them. I got one in the mail myself today and de-oxidized, sanitized, cleaned, and polished. The bowl is now getting the alcohol/salt treatment for the next 24 hours. I also redid a pipe I did a not so good job on a while back...it still had an off taste to it.

Ebay has some problems, but you can get a pretty good deal when you look.

[IHT]

well, my dumbass forgot about a bid i wanted to place, didn't use hammersnipe either (or i would've won it).

there was a tin of A&C Petersen Premier Cru up for auction... the big 100g tin (not 50g pouch)... it went for $12.50.
i was a little pissed, but nobody to blame but myself.

Originally Posted by louistogie

How do you find this stuff on ebay?

you do a search in the "pipe" portion of ebay for the word "tin"... there's also a section for "tins", but majority of those are just very old and empty tins of Carter Hall and Bugler, etc.

i would post a link for ya, but ebay is blocked here at work.

[louistogie]

Originally Posted by IHT

well, my dumbass forgot about a bid i wanted to place, didn't use hammersnipe either (or i would've won it).

there was a tin of A&C Petersen Premier Cru up for auction... the big 100g tin (not 50g pouch)... it went for $12.50.
i was a little pissed, but nobody to blame but myself.


you do a search in the "pipe" portion of ebay for the word "tin"... there's also a section for "tins", but majority of those are just very old and empty tins of Carter Hall and Bugler, etc.

i would post a link for ya, but ebay is blocked here at work.

Pipe portion? Not to sure where to put that but I'll give it a try.

[MarkC]

Here's what I do: go to collectables, then pick tobacciana or whatever the word is. Then search for pipes. Then, in that search, search for tins. Then search for sealed, making sure that you first check the box that extends the search to include the descriptions. I can't say whether or not this gives you all the tins on eBay, but it sure gets a bunch, plus seems to eliminate the empty Prince Albert cans, etc. I have a feeling some people read that disclaimer about the tin being collectable and worth more than the contents, believe it, and think they've got a gold mine with empty tins. I think eBay is doing a real disservice with that rule, but I would imagine they feel they have to to avoid legal bs.

[Requiem]

Here's my american loot:

[commonsenseman]

Whoa great baccy from America Gustavo. I especially like the Westminster, tasty stuff!!!

[Hendu3270]

Nice haul! That freehand poker lokks like it would hold a ton of tobacco.

[Mr.Lordi]

I just bought this pipe from Frenchy: WO Larsen Bent Blast Hand-Made - Estate


lol, like the 7th or so pipe I've bought this Summer.

Plus I finally had the extra dough to do a nice large order at 4noggins.

[Crazycoonass]

Hi I just started smoking pipe a couple of weeks ago and have since fallen in love with it, i just went on a spending spree on ebay and bought a few moderatly priced briar estate pipes. The ones of most note though are the two sterling silver medico pipes i bought, one was 30$ for an unsmoked strait shaft and 41$ for a lightly smoked bent shaft, they are beutifull with silver egyptian overlay, but since i dont know much about pipes in general my question is, did I get a good deal? How good a smoke are medico, lol, and should i even smoke out of the Mint condition pipe or put it on a shelf and just admire it.

[RHNewfie]

Nothing major but got 3 pouches of 5 Brothers and a tin of SG St James Flake in the mail yesterday.

[DubintheDam]

Just bought this one tonight...$77 for a Pete, with a normal retail price of $225 (125 on Iwan R). Unsmoked from Judd. A p-lip which ain't my favorite but it's a no. 15 which is a small english style. I do like small pipes these days.

Judd's UNSMOKED Peterson Deluxe Pipe w/Sterling Silver - eBay (item 120466225097 end time Sep-11-09 118:19 PDT)

[MarkC]

Well, I fell victim to eBay today, and picked up this one:
2007 STANWELL UPCA CHICAGO PIPE **UNSMOKED** - eBay (item 370258389686 end time Sep-20-09 14:55:00 PDT)

I have no idea if I did well or not; it looks like a Stanwell Classic Blast, which means I did pretty good, but I guess it isn't, so who knows. Oh well, if it smokes well, I'll be happy! Strangely enough, this will be my first normal billiard...