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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 144992"><p>It depends on whether buying pipes is an acquisitive hobby in its own right, like collecting butterflies or stamps, or whether you're narrowing it down to the shapes and makers you find you like best. </p><p></p><p>Yeah. Went through a long Peterson billiards & bulldogs phase, back when better old ones were going begging on fleabay. Those days are long since over and done, but they still make up about half the team here and they've been appreciated presents to discerning friends as well. </p><p></p><p>Now those have been supplimented by similarly old and nice examples by less highly touted English firms and store-branded ones by whoever made them (Charatan, Barling & others cut deals like this to move their over-production from time to time).</p><p></p><p>Whatever floats your boat. Finding the best value (workmanship, age, history) at the lowest prices does it for me. That way, additional $ put into stuff like better stems still brings them in well under what you could get much of anything worthwhile new for, and with no break-in involved.</p><p></p><p>(<em>Shhhhhhh</em> . . . don't let on, OK ? I already spoiled the party raving about old Petes 'til people caught on). </p><p></p><p>:face:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 144992"] It depends on whether buying pipes is an acquisitive hobby in its own right, like collecting butterflies or stamps, or whether you're narrowing it down to the shapes and makers you find you like best. Yeah. Went through a long Peterson billiards & bulldogs phase, back when better old ones were going begging on fleabay. Those days are long since over and done, but they still make up about half the team here and they've been appreciated presents to discerning friends as well. Now those have been supplimented by similarly old and nice examples by less highly touted English firms and store-branded ones by whoever made them (Charatan, Barling & others cut deals like this to move their over-production from time to time). Whatever floats your boat. Finding the best value (workmanship, age, history) at the lowest prices does it for me. That way, additional $ put into stuff like better stems still brings them in well under what you could get much of anything worthwhile new for, and with no break-in involved. ([i]Shhhhhhh[/i] . . . don't let on, OK ? I already spoiled the party raving about old Petes 'til people caught on). :face: [/QUOTE]
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