A friend of mine gave me an old magazine from 1951, the BIG-BOOK WESTERN MAGAZINE, sort of a western/cowboy adventure-story pulp magazine with ads, etc. I see an ad in there for Dr. Philip's pipes, what you would call a revolutionary design for 1951 I guess, replaceable ceramic bowls and supposedly a lot of features for pipe smokers. So I google it and they are still available. The 1951 price was about $5, there were two sizes, the short and long smoke model. Both came with four extra ceramic bowls which somehow fit into the outside briar bowl. Here's the link for more info and when you are in there, there is a window for ordering. Sounds sort of interesting.
http://www.drphilipspipe.com/about-the-philips-pipe
They sell now for about $50. Anyone here ever see these or smoke them?
interesting, never seen a pipe with a ceramic bowl that you can change.
That looks like a pretty cool design.
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There is a line of pipes called "Falcon" that have a metal stem and bowl base, and the bowls are replaceable/swappable. So you could have a 7-pipe rotation using the same stem every time and just rotating the bowls.
http://www.4noggins.com/falconpipes.aspx
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There is a line of pipes called "Falcon" that have a metal stem and bowl base, and the bowls are replaceable/swappable. So you could have a 7-pipe rotation using the same stem every time and just rotating the bowls.
http://www.4noggins.com/falconpipes.aspx
I remember those from the 50's when I was a kid. An old fella in the neighbourhood used to come into the local (small) grocery store where we used to hang out. He had one, that middle tube in the stem supposedly cooled the smoke right? He used to buy Old Chum in a silver pack with black lines on the pattern and a Sherlock Holmes hunting cap on the label. We used to follow him out of the store to get a whiff of the great-smelling smoke. We occasionally tried smoking pipes back then but the smell seemed much better than the taste to a 14-year old. On the website, I can't see a picture of the stems and bowls together, just separate.
That is pretty cool looks like a mini furnace.
Wow, those look incredible. Thanks for the head's up! I've never tried a ceramic bowl pipe, but I used to have a pipe with a metal bowl by VM&EM that smoked wonderfully.