Really wanted this one.

[HLS]

Just couldn't compete in that price range. Not right now anyway. Beautiful pipe.


http://www.ebay.com/itm/NICE-VICTOR...3TIODL4+21X84BUyX/vo8qI=&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc

 

[Champion of Capua]

I would like to think of myself as open minded and well traveled, but I just find that to be a little weird to smoke.

 

[HLS]

I don't see why. It's a beautifully carved figural meerschaum. And it's smoked/aged nicely. It also had over fifty bids and sold for over $500.00 Guess to each his own.

I would like to think of myself as open minded and well traveled, but I just find that to be a little weird to smoke.

 

[Kazeryu]

Smoking tobacco out of someone's skull is slightly creepy to me. I have never understood the appeal of human figures on pipes.

(Which is not to say that OP's post is not a very nice-looking pipe, only that I would never want to own or smoke one...)

 

[HLS]

Guess it's all in how you see it......I would say you would be smoking from his hat

Seller's photos

 

[Blade Boy]

That's some awesome carving, very life like, and exquisitely colored too.

 

[Headcharge]

I don't know what to say.......good looking carving but......

 

[joshua1970]

it's gorgeous... great coloring (that level of coloring only comes with time), and the carving is really on point.

It makes me curious if it was a matter of the carving/coloring that commanded the hefty price, the maker (JLD?) I don't know enough about old Victorian age meerschaum makers, though the 20th century's Bekler and Bauer - both also Austrian I believe, command high prices on their reputation alone...or was it the African-American antique collectibility commanding such a price?

A few months ago I saw a scuttle on ebay from the late 1800s with a depiction on the side of two men of African decent (one in 'field' attire, the other in 'house' attire) both holding straight razors and involved in a cutthroat knife fight... I forget the final price but it was well over $400 if I recall.

 

[oc_in_fw]

I would like to think of myself as open minded and well traveled, but I just find that to be a little weird to smoke.

I guess you would not be one to take libations out of a real human skull, then?

 

[Landri]

I like this ones:
http://www.pipasovejanegra.com/inde...emart&page=shop.browse&category_id=1&Itemid=2