I recently picked up my first ceramic estate pipe, a Goedewaagan Baronite double walled pipe made in Holland. Hopefully I don't break the damn thing while I'm cleaning it.

The material used to hold the tenon into the shank has disintegrated. From what I can tell it appears to have been cork. It looks to me like it's supposed to be a push pull type and that the cork gasket would have remained on the tenon, not in the shank (this is a guess). I'm going to start cleaning it up and my plan is to drill a cork and shave it to fit, but I'm curious if anyone may know if this is actually how this pipe was originally designed.

I did find this article where the restorer had the same problem http://rebornpipes.com/2012/09/03/go...e-restemmed-2/. He opted to drill and tap the stem to fit a Delrin push pull tenon. I'm not 100% against going that route, but I think I would rather forgo trying to drill and tap the stem.

Here are a few pics: