Smoking pipe value?

miss choc

Just wondering approx what the value of these old smoking pipes would be. Not in mint condition but might be of some worth

Peterson sterling silver system premier wooden bowl
Briarwood Cavelier
K&P Petersons looks like bog oak bowl
RAOB cow head pipe with amber stem

miss choc

Just bumping this post up again as I was wondering if anyone has any idea of the value of these pipes

I now have a bit more info on them so it might help

Peterson sandblasted wooden bowl with nickel ring has the Tower/shamrock/foxhound Peterson symbols on it. K&P Petersons black stem

Peterson wooden bowl sterling silver rim black stem Petersons Dublin it has a C a Y and a sword /leaf like hallmarks on it.

Real Briar Cavalier wooden bowl, vertical type stem

Buffalo head bowl, sliver plated ring, with amber stem RAOB - UK Freemasons smoking pipe hallmark star, and like a D and a book might be Masonry symbols

tomtucker81

You could also try in the gentlemans pipe smoking forum. There may be some knowledgeable gentlemen there!!

chopper6

Stick them on ebay.com

There's very few collectors of wooden smoking pipes in this country....everybody's grandfather had a collection of them and they're too common to be collected widely.

The buffalo head one with the amber stem would be the only one that would have some value,to my mind.

How much value is hard to say,i'd stick it on ebay at 50 dollars and see what happens.

coylemj

Don't get excited by the sterling silver collars, they were on nearly all of the midrange K&P pipes, typically called 'Premier'. The real high-end pipes, including commemorative models, special editions and the 'De Luxe' range had a sterling silver collar which was cylindrical i.e. did not have the hemispherical curve at the mouthpiece end and they usually featured a mirror cylinder on the bakelite as shown here....

miss choc

Thanks Im going to pop into Petersons just out of curiosity and see what they make of them just looking for a ball point figure I know they probably arent that valuable but be interesting for them to see what price they give them.

coylemj

miss choc wrote: »

Thanks Im going to pop into Petersons just out of curiosity and see what they make of them just looking for a ball point figure I know they probably arent that valuable but be interesting for them to see what price they give them.

You mentioned bog oak for the pipe with the rough bowl, that is not what it's made from. All K&P wood pipes are made from the root of the briar plant, the ones with the rough surfaces are simply sandblasted to achieve that effect.

The 'Premier' pipes had the sterling silver collar like your one and the 'Shamrock' models which were at the low end of the range had a nickel collar which is the one in your photos with the shamrock stamped on it.

Here's a similar Premier pipe on the Peterson website, after all these years they're still selling the exact same pipe with a sterling silver collar, for €125 these days so you're old model should be viewed in that context i.e. it doesn't have any collectible value.

http://www.peterson.ie/p/5209/312-premier

Popescu

They look worthless to me. I would not look twice at them.

miss choc

Yeah I just want rid but someone I know is willing to give a bit of cash to me for them so however low the value I will get something

coylemj

miss choc wrote: »

Yeah I just want rid but someone I know is willing to give a bit of cash to me for them so however low the value I will get something

They're worth the value of the sterling silver on the Premier pipes, not a penny more.