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Dear brothers, It is with a sad and heavy heart that I must inform you of the passing of Pieter Claasen a.k.a. SpeedyPete. Pieter was diagnosed with colon cancer in late March and underwent surgery on 17 April. He never fully recovered and passed away in hospital earlier today. It was on this...

Greetings, all. I picked up this Barling’s make locally for a shade over 30$ recently. No visible fills, and it cleaned up nicely with little effort. It had some minor damage on the outer rim and a small stem/shank gap issue which I managed to largely sort out by taking shade off the end of the...

Thanks to the expansive generosity of a man I am very proud to call a friend, my second Goussard. Tell me fellas (and I ask you very confidentially) aint she sweet????

Just read the above, a lovely insight into Eurasian rail travel in the early 1970's. Paul Theroux is father of author and television presenter, Louis Theroux, and more on topic for this forum, a pipe smoker. I found it a great relaxing read, with such gems as: "Mr Bernard brought me to the...

Greeting brothers. An appeal to your greater experience: Being of necessity a buyer of estates, it sometimes happens that I purchase a pipe which does not have a perfectly flush stem fit. By this I mean that when held up to the light either side on or from above or below, there appears a...

Well, don't quite know what else to call it. I picked up a nice little GBD straight prince at my local market for a shade under 4$ on the weekend (Stop! Thief! I hear you cry). Brass insert in the stem and linear "Made in England" stamp peg it as a pre transition. Oddly, for me in my vast...

A while ago I bought some pipes from a lady in my area, included in which was Dr Plumb straight stemmed Prince. It was pretty beat up with a badly battered rim, a bit of a gouge on the left of the bowl (which is still slightly visible), and the stem so loose it would basically fall out if...

RE this thread: https://www.brothersofbriar.com/t31202-tarantino-brings-the-pipe-back-to-the-big-screen-again?highlight=tarantino Watched it yesterday. Those expecting a pipe fest may be disappointed. Some nice scenes but only in the first 25 minutes or so. That said, great movie. Agatha...

What distinguishes an "Author" from a "Prince"? There seems to be quite a cross-over.

By now you good folk know that I just love me a good bargain (and shamelessly bragging about it). Have gander at this one I snapped yesterday. Pics aren't great, but it looks pretty sound in wind and limb, as it were. I think it'll clean up nice. I shall refrain on this occasion from telling...

Thinking of buying this as a driving pipe: http://www.ebay.com/itm/A-HUGE-OLD-VINTAGE-BRIAR-WOODEN-PIPE-BOWL-BBB-738GRAMS-1-1-POUNDS-/181878271603

I am currently enjoying a spot of vacation leave, and not going away, have some time on my hands to just bum around, smoke my pipes and generally while away the time by starting threads of questionable value like this. I have been spending some of my time listening to podcasts of a BBC Radio 4...

Happy Heritage Day to all my South African brothers. For all the rest of you good people who don't know what I'm on about, please help yourselves to your recommended daily allowance of useless information below: Today we celebrate Heritage Day, a holiday who's official purpose is to celebrate...

Hi, Pipers. Just got this GBD. lovely grain and all, albeit with a minor imperfection (crack?) in the shank. It has a brass rondelle insert in the stem and therefore is probably pre-Cadogan, but I have a few questions. First, there is a brass (??) ring around the stem. Anyone know what that...

Just acquired this baby for under 50$. Scarcely smoked, and with a little stem refurb, I think she came up real Purdy:

Hey pipers, Watching this on a local auction site. Description says briar bowl. Question is: Possibly a Donagal Rocky. . . , or a well-coloured, rough textured African meer? I lean toward the latter, as the pics I see on Google don't show rockies with that rounded system 'ferule' rather a...

Greetings all, I am reading Stephen King's novel, 11/22/63 about the Kennedy assassination which involves time travel  to the 1950's (well it is Stephen King after all). I list a few of these 'snapshots' below. Be interesting to see if they survive if it's ever made into a movie: The father...

Greetings, brothers, Any of you knowledgeable brothers care to take a gander at this: http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/190960605/STUNNING_PIPE_STAND_with_PIPES_SPARE_PARTS_ALL_for_1_BID.html Could that chunky bent branded REJECT' from Rep.of Ireland be a reject Pete?? Bowl shape seems to fit...

Greetings, all. Woke up at 6 a.m. yesterday to find a message from Jean Du Toit sent the previous day 4.30 p.m, saying he had 4 new pipes for sale on his site. By the time I logged on, 3 had already been snapped up, but remaining was a pipe he calls a Freehand Lapwing Egg with a beige brindle...

Greetings fellow pipe folk. I decided to pop on this rather odd but (to me) interesting little fella, after some dickering with the seller. He confirms no stampings or logos. Any of you enlightened brothers seen anything similar? Ever?? Besides freehand (or simply ugly), what the devil would...