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The death of Real antique fairs
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<blockquote data-quote="Puffy" data-source="post: 521317" data-attributes="member: 62"><p>When I was a little guy here in tobacco land...N.Carolina..I,m almost 76 now.You could walk into your local store and sitting on the counter was a card that usually had about 6 pipes on it.They sold for about $3 dollars each.That's the kind of pipes folks around here smoked back then.That's the kind of pipes I see in antique shops these days.Anything of value they sell other places...I started smoking pipes in 1971.On average today they cost as much as 10 times what they did back then,and tobacco costs at least 3 times as much.As an example.In the past I have bought new Falcons at Sears as low as 7 dollars each Maybe i'm wrong but price could be a big reason the number of pipe smokers has decreased so much and antique shops just don't have much call for pipes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Puffy, post: 521317, member: 62"] When I was a little guy here in tobacco land...N.Carolina..I,m almost 76 now.You could walk into your local store and sitting on the counter was a card that usually had about 6 pipes on it.They sold for about $3 dollars each.That's the kind of pipes folks around here smoked back then.That's the kind of pipes I see in antique shops these days.Anything of value they sell other places...I started smoking pipes in 1971.On average today they cost as much as 10 times what they did back then,and tobacco costs at least 3 times as much.As an example.In the past I have bought new Falcons at Sears as low as 7 dollars each Maybe i'm wrong but price could be a big reason the number of pipe smokers has decreased so much and antique shops just don't have much call for pipes. [/QUOTE]
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