For years I've been a fan of the Spaghetti Westerns, more specifically the "Man With No Name Trilogy". In the the movie, "For A Few Dollars More" Clint Eastwood stars along side another great actor Lee Van Cleef. In the movie LVC smokes a meerschaum pipe that has beautiful coloring to it. Because of this movie I've wanted a meerschaum pipe like his from the time I first saw this movie... many years ago. Well, after over a year of searching ebay for a bent egg meerschaum pipe in new condition, and at a reasonable price; I have finally found my LVC pipe. This one is a 1/2 bent and the actual LVC pipe is 3/4 bent, but its close enough for me. It was carved in 1962 and was bought in Turkey by the ebay seller. Already smoked a bowl out of it and I have a feeling its going to become my new favorite pipe. I'm hoping it colors similar to that of the LVC pipe in the movie.
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Great scene from "For A Few Dollars More" referred to as Mortimer's Match or The Smoker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nftF-g48UYA
Nice looking pipe!
nice pipe! I guess you already know not to touch it with your oily hands right? To develop that nice red color it can't have oils from hands on it or it turns brown.
Very nice! I would like to pick up a meerschaum one day.
awesome score buddy
A nice pipe! I don't need another hobby, cigars do enough damage to my bank account
Congrats on a great find Bryan. I wish you many years of enjoyment from it. Show it off this summer at the NW Geeks Herf.
QuoteVroomp - 3/20/2013 8:07 AM nice pipe! I guess you already know not to touch it with your oily hands right? To develop that nice red color it can't have oils from hands on it or it turns brown.
I read somewhere that the ones from Turkey don't change color that well. ROTHNH always has the facts on stuff like that though.
very cool pipe. I want one myself.
Quotetoby2 - 3/20/2013 6:30 AM
QuoteVroomp - 3/20/2013 8:07 AM nice pipe! I guess you already know not to touch it with your oily hands right? To develop that nice red color it can't have oils from hands on it or it turns brown.
I read somewhere that the ones from Turkey don't change color that well. ROTHNH always has the facts on stuff like that though.
very cool pipe. I want one myself.
The bulk of all meerschaum comes from Turkey, and typically the best meerschaum is found in Turkey. However, depending on how far down the meerschaum was mined will determine the quality and size of the blocks. Being that this pipe was carved in 1962, chances are its a higher quality meerschaum as today's meerschaum pipes are being made from meerschaum blocks that have been mined in other area's around the world.
As for the not touching of the meerschaum, I don't buy into any of that crap. It's a pipe and it's to be held like a pipe. I don't think the generation of pipe smokers from the hey-day of pipe smoking ever babied their meerschaums. It will color just fine by handling it. I've seen plenty of great looking colored meerschaum pipes that have been handled just like a regular pipe. As long as your hands are clean and not dirty from working in the yard, garage etc. while handling the pipe it should color just fine. Besides that a deep chocolate brown is a typical color change for meerschaum pipes. Again the quality of the meerschaum and the amount it's smoked will determine the color of the pipe, (red, amber, brown etc.)
I think it would be a bit late for not touching a 50 year old pipe with oily hands. I wouldn't worry about it myself at all.
I recently watched The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (again) and noticed and liked LVC's pipe. Although the movie was set during the Civil War, the pipe has a metal band, which seemed to be an anachronism -- I don't think pipes from that era had metal on the shank. Thoughts?
http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/lee-van-cleef-pipe
got me looking now.
QuoteBlackIrish - 3/20/2013 9:23 AM
I recently watched The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (again) and noticed and liked LVC's pipe. Although the movie was set during the Civil War, the pipe has a metal band, which seemed to be an anachronism -- I don't think pipes from that era had metal on the shank. Thoughts?
Interesting. I never thought about that. I believe that pipe is a Wellington, but I'm not sure and if so I don't know when they started putting metal bands on their pipes. Briar pipes were introduced around 1820 and became very popular around the mid 1800's, but whether or not any of those had metal bands I couldn't say.
Awesome! I noticed the yellow stem meerschaum years ago, and wanted to get one. Great score!
Nice Pipe!
:bigthumbs: nice... very nice.