Collecting antique Meerschaum pipes.
By DINNERLADY
@lazydaizee (6732)
United Kingdom
May 3, 2020 5:05am CST
Although smoking is not as popular today as it was in the past, and very few smokers smoke pipes these days, there is a field of collecting that has started around the subject. There are people who like to collect old pipes and other smoking related collectables.
This book shows pictures taken of the author`s own collection of antique Meerschaum pipes. Some of these old pipes are really interesting and are works of art in themselves.
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
3 May 20
Some people do have such strange hobbies.
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@amitkokiladitya (171988)
• Agra, India
4 May 20
@lazydaizee not really...I like to visit and explore new places and that isn't anything strange I guess
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@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
4 May 20
@amitkokiladitya Nothing strange about exploring new places. What sort of places do you go to.
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@JudyEv (382104)
• Rockingham, Australia
4 May 20
@lazydaizee I have some old books too that I treasure but I don't know what will become of them when I go.
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@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
4 May 20
Thank you, I feel lucky to have some of them because many are quite old and now are out of print.
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@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
5 May 20
@JudyEv Perhaps some members of your family would like them. Isn`t it weird to think that many of our possessions are going to outlive us. We have just started to buy good quality furniture because we could not afford to when we were younger. We were saying that this furniture will last for more years than we will.
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@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
3 May 20
There are many more artistic pipes inside the book too.
@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
3 May 20
There is a collector for everything.
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@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
4 May 20
There does seem to be . I go to my local auction and it is surprising what the people will buy and how much they are willing to pay for it.
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@Miss_Leafy (4296)
• Colombia
3 May 20
The book will be very interesting for the smokers 
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@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
3 May 20
Yes, it will be interesting for them to understand the history of smoking and how people did it in the past. However, many collectors of smoking ephemera are not smokers themselves.
@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
3 May 20
It is an interesting book and some of the old pipes are really well designed. Most of them must have taken ages to carve and make. The people who designed and made them were real craftsmen.
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@lazydaizee (6732)
• United Kingdom
6 May 20
@Lakshman15 Yes they probably had to serve a long apprenticeship before they could call themselves proper craftsmen.
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