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<blockquote data-quote="PreppyHippy" data-source="post: 267551" data-attributes="member: 2706"><p>I took a closer look at the collection: how I'd love to have had a conversation with the once-owner! Think of the pipe enthousiasm he had and might have expressed. The collection looks like a lot of Grabows and basket pipes for sure, with a half-dozen at least leather covered ones, but there are some very good sandblasts in the mix and plenty of clearly well cut English straight classics. Probably one-fifth of the collection will be good enough to meet anyone's tastes. Well, maybe one-sixth. </p><p></p><p>I spotted one Charatan stem, but generally I couldn't make out other high-brand lable stems or distinguishing marks--only nice cuts and good blasts that appeal to me. </p><p></p><p>The gatherer clearly valued quantity over quality, but had a good fraction of quality selected too. </p><p></p><p>Fun to think over who a person might/must have been by looking at his (her) immense in this case pipe collection.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="PreppyHippy, post: 267551, member: 2706"] I took a closer look at the collection: how I'd love to have had a conversation with the once-owner! Think of the pipe enthousiasm he had and might have expressed. The collection looks like a lot of Grabows and basket pipes for sure, with a half-dozen at least leather covered ones, but there are some very good sandblasts in the mix and plenty of clearly well cut English straight classics. Probably one-fifth of the collection will be good enough to meet anyone's tastes. Well, maybe one-sixth. I spotted one Charatan stem, but generally I couldn't make out other high-brand lable stems or distinguishing marks--only nice cuts and good blasts that appeal to me. The gatherer clearly valued quantity over quality, but had a good fraction of quality selected too. Fun to think over who a person might/must have been by looking at his (her) immense in this case pipe collection. [/QUOTE]
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