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'''Buying a Kulpinsky''' (By TseHa) | |||
It was sometimes in Spring of 2003 when I found the first Kulpinski pipe being auctioned on e*** by a pipetrader from Munich. Nice pipe, really! So I googled for "Ryszard Kulpiński" and it wasn't a problem to find his homepage. But to my dismay it was only in Polish and other than "fajka" (pipe) and "fajki" (pipes) I didn't understand one single word. | |||
Well, talking a little Pipish, I understood that Mr. Kulpinski makes really fine pipes, which might be distinguished into groups and described as | |||
* (cheaper) machine-made standard shapes | |||
* hand carved scultural or figural pipes (Autograf) and | |||
* hand carved freehands (Autograf) in a more common sense. | |||
I e-mailed Mr. Kulpinski in German and English about his pipes and within two days I received his answer - presumably very kind and polite - in Polish and Russian... | |||
Uhh, not too good. And a repetition didn't turn out a better result. For the moment I quit it. | |||
Now, in December 2004 my sister-in-law Sabine married Richard. Richard (or Ryszard), his father a German and his mother a Pole, speaks both languages perfectly. In June of 2005 I dodged Richard to the phone and made him ring up Mr. Kulpinski. It was a nice and friendly talk between Ryszard and Ryszard in Polish and afterwards I was told that Autograf 0185 was in stock, Autograf 0099 could be made within 4 weeks and Autograf 0104 within 2 weeks depending on suiting stummels. | |||
25 days later Mr. Kulpinski notified my brother-in-law the pipes were ready for shipping and asked for payment. 270 Euro all in all. I was a little bit shocked because Mr. Kulpinski’s German distributor had answered my information request saying these three pipes would cost about 860 Euro! | |||
As it had been preconcerted my brother-in-law took the money to Poland and transfered it to Mr. Kulpinski’s bank account from a Polish bank at his holiday resort. Vice versa Mr. Kulpinski sent the pipes to Richard’s hotel. This to avoid the special adventures one might undergo transfering money from a German to a Polish bank and waiting for a parcel from there. Well, things have improved significantly since 2005. | |||
On July, 27th 2005 I finally received the pipes and the very next day I made Richard (or Ryszard) ring up Ryszard (or Richard) Kulpinski once again to express my thank for these beautiful pipes. | |||
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Image:Kulp_A0099.jpg|Autograf 0099 | Image:Kulp_A0099.jpg|Autograf 0099 | ||
Revision as of 14:10, 18 February 2008
Buying a Kulpinsky (By TseHa)
It was sometimes in Spring of 2003 when I found the first Kulpinski pipe being auctioned on e*** by a pipetrader from Munich. Nice pipe, really! So I googled for "Ryszard Kulpiński" and it wasn't a problem to find his homepage. But to my dismay it was only in Polish and other than "fajka" (pipe) and "fajki" (pipes) I didn't understand one single word.
Well, talking a little Pipish, I understood that Mr. Kulpinski makes really fine pipes, which might be distinguished into groups and described as
- (cheaper) machine-made standard shapes
- hand carved scultural or figural pipes (Autograf) and
- hand carved freehands (Autograf) in a more common sense.
I e-mailed Mr. Kulpinski in German and English about his pipes and within two days I received his answer - presumably very kind and polite - in Polish and Russian...
Uhh, not too good. And a repetition didn't turn out a better result. For the moment I quit it.
Now, in December 2004 my sister-in-law Sabine married Richard. Richard (or Ryszard), his father a German and his mother a Pole, speaks both languages perfectly. In June of 2005 I dodged Richard to the phone and made him ring up Mr. Kulpinski. It was a nice and friendly talk between Ryszard and Ryszard in Polish and afterwards I was told that Autograf 0185 was in stock, Autograf 0099 could be made within 4 weeks and Autograf 0104 within 2 weeks depending on suiting stummels.
25 days later Mr. Kulpinski notified my brother-in-law the pipes were ready for shipping and asked for payment. 270 Euro all in all. I was a little bit shocked because Mr. Kulpinski’s German distributor had answered my information request saying these three pipes would cost about 860 Euro!
As it had been preconcerted my brother-in-law took the money to Poland and transfered it to Mr. Kulpinski’s bank account from a Polish bank at his holiday resort. Vice versa Mr. Kulpinski sent the pipes to Richard’s hotel. This to avoid the special adventures one might undergo transfering money from a German to a Polish bank and waiting for a parcel from there. Well, things have improved significantly since 2005.
On July, 27th 2005 I finally received the pipes and the very next day I made Richard (or Ryszard) ring up Ryszard (or Richard) Kulpinski once again to express my thank for these beautiful pipes.
Autograf 0099
Autograf 0104
Autograf 0185
Fajki Przemysl Ryszard Kulpiński PL - 37-700 Przemyśl ul. Kochanowskiego 85 Homepage: Fajki Przemysl