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A Rim Rescue for a Tennessean Comeaux USA CC S 05 ‘Dublinesque’ Lovat

On By Dal StantonIn Pipe Refurbishing Essays3 Comments

The pipe that is now on the worktable is truly a unique shape.  It came to me from a pipeman who donated several pipes to benefit the Daughters of Bulgaria, now called, Spring of Hope.  He was also thinning his collection and the benefactors of this are those seeking to commission pipes from the  For …

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A Rim Rebuild Resuscitating a Republic Era Peterson’s “Kildare” 86 Apple

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This Republic era Kildare came to me in one of my first larger acquisitions in September of 2017 when I landed a lot of 66 pipes on the auction block.  The ‘Lot of 66’ came from an NGO in Texas called ‘The Caring Place’ – an organization that takes donations and resells to help the …

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