Antique Pipes That Are Not Bulldogs

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A Frank Bakelite pipe with silver lattice screw on bowl. These things looks pretty. But the metal gets hot when the pipe is smoked.

 

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A Frank Bakelite poker with case.

 

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Frank cased screw bowl pipe. The bowl and base are briar. The stem is Bakelite. I suspect that it is a replacement for an earlier amberoid stem.

 

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Frank sterling Bakelite bent billiard. I had this one converted to a push stem and smoked it for a long time before selling it off. It's a classic for the era.

 

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Here's the Frank version of a well pipe. This one is pretty but I don't like smoking well pipes.

 

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French Briar scoop with some bling and an amber stem.

 

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XB Hand Made brand billiard with some art nouveau jewelry and an amber stem.

 

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XB Hand Made brand billiard with some art nouveau jewelry and an amber stem.

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Never seen that style of bowl topper before. That's cool.

 

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KB&B all Bakelite with what I believe is a molded wood insert.

 

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KB&B Blueline Bakelite Bent. Beautiful pipe! It didn't hang right for me.

 

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KB&B Blueline Bakelite large full bent with a sterling band suitable for engraving.

 

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KB&B Bakelite cased, bent screw on bowl.

 

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Lindbergh commemorative pipe with a horn stem. Made in France.

 

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A nice capped and banded bent Manhattan.

 

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MLC Redmanol bent pipe.

 

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This is an outstanding collection, and you have posted too many good things in the past day for me to comment on all of them individually.

Several of these pipes look like things I would actually smoke myself. Antiques that you still want to use a hundred years later are the best kind, right?

What I really wanted to ask: How are you getting these great photos?

 

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What I really wanted to ask: How are you getting these great photos?

I have a Sony 5 megapixel camera I bought when those things were new. It has manual settings and takes pretty nice pics. The ones with the darker background are taken using a light box. I used to struggle getting the light and focus right. The light box has solved those problems.

MLC Redmanol Sterling with a screw on bowl.

 

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NPW Cutty with a horn stem.

 

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NPW Italian Briar Dublin. The stem is hard black rubber. Probably a 1920s pipe.

 

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NPW French Briar small scoop. I think the stem on this one was molded celluloid.