Stanwell pipes - input?

[F. Prefect]

Originally Posted by Nutiket_32

Does anyone have one of the stanwell HCAs? How do they smoke for the price?

I have 2 of them, both smooth, and both smoke very well. One has some very distinctive flame grain covering most of the bowl, while the other has some excellent birdseye on one side and straight grain on the other. I probably use the churchwarden stem about 90% of the time, but they smoke equally well with the shorter stem. Since they are an older model, they have the silver colored metal band rather than the gold colored in use today.

When you can pick them up on sale I think they are an excellent buy. Almost 2 for the price of 1.

F. Prefect

[Arizona]

The best price I've seen them for is $112 so ya I think I did good.

The seller told me he bought it in London in 1993 and it had two stems, however the long one was confiscated by the Homeland Security nazis at O'Hare airport last year cuz he had it in his shirt pocket and "it could be a blowgun"... HUH???

[IHT]

you can get NEW stanwell HCA's for around $100.
http://www.knoxcigar.com/sthachanivsa.html

[Arizona]

Here's my pipe from the pics the owner took...

[F. Prefect]

Originally Posted by IHT

you can get NEW stanwell HCA's for around $100.
http://www.knoxcigar.com/sthachanivsa.html

I would say 100.00 would be about as cheap as your going to find 'em now.
smokingpipes.com has the smooth priced at 132.50 and 119.50 for the rusticated, but they've had them on sale in the 100.00 range. Very nice pipe(s).

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[IHT]

for those of you with a hankerin for a churchwarden...
check out this page on Frenchy's website, down at the bottom.
http://www.frenchyspipes.com/index.php?crn=211&start=3

[Nutiket_32]

the one second from the bottom on the right looks pretty good.