This is a link to a seller that has (and has had) a lot of pipes for sale, as of this writing over 600!

Home Vintage Supply

I searched on this link for “pipe” and sorted by “ending soonest” in case the link doesn’t reflect my search.

Most of their pipes are offered with a ‘starting bid’ and a ‘Buy-It-Now option’. From the descriptions I don’t assume that they have expertise in pipes and the sheer number of offerings suggests that there are pipes here from several collections.

I have two points in referencing this seller.

1 - There are some solid values to be had if you know what you’re looking for (and at).
2 - Look for similarities in condition across pipes offered by a seller, especially those from a specific collection.

I found this seller a few months back when I saw an Urbino, a second line of pipes made by Massimo Palazzi (L’Anatra), formerly of Ser Jacopo, but unfortunately the bowl was cracked. When I (and I suggest you) see any seller with cracked, damaged, abused or broken pipes or mistreated stems, etc., you should tread carefully because smokers bad habits are exhibited across all of the pipes that they ‘enjoyed’. Any pipe that came from that collection may be similarly compromised.

At that time I noticed several other pipes that were in similar condition and correctly, (in all the listings that I read), the seller noted the damage and showed pictures. The prices, starting and Buy-It-Now, didn’t (and don’t since many are still for sale), reflect the seriousness of the damage. Since the seller describes the problems in word and pictures I have no problem with the offering but you, as a potential buyer, need to make sure that a pipe is in the condition that you require.

Urbino (damaged pipe)

I don’t find anything amiss in the pipes being sold by Home Vintage Supply and in fact I purchased a pipe from them today, a Ben Wade (?) handmade Reject, for $19.97 plus $4.54 shipping (this was the minimum bid).

Though a reject, this pipe was handmade by Charatan from exceptional briar and at the price it represents an excellent value. There were two (2) other Charatan handmade Rejects offered, one that also sold for the minimum and the other went unsold (below).

Post about the Charatan handmade Reject that I purchased (10:31pm, August 2nd, 2015)

(Ben Wade?) Reject handmade by Charatan Re-listed

(Ben Wade?) Sandblast Reject made by Charatan (probably handmade)

I listed the only two Rejects that I believe to be handmade by Charatan. If you search for “pipe reject” you’ll see the above two pipes as well as several others but only one of those others may be a handmade (better briar) while the rest are just ordinary and not good values at the starting price.

This seller’s pipes, from several collections, show (from the Ben Wade (?) Rejects that many smokers bought similar pipes during a definable range of time. Based on these Rejects I can conjecture that they bought several of the same type of piped from the early 1960s through the mid 1970s. That’s helpful in generalizing about other pipes that seem to be (or definitely are) from the same collection.

Happy hunting!

Pete