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'''Calabash, Calabash, Wherefore Art Thou Calabash?, The Genesis of a Collecting Motif, by Fred Heim, with photography by Joe Harb''' | '''Calabash, Calabash, Wherefore Art Thou Calabash?, The Genesis of a Collecting Motif, by Fred Heim, with photography by Joe Harb''' | ||
I collect calabash-shaped briar pipes. Certainly, I've had my dalliances with Barlings, Charatans, and Dunhills, and a few wonderful | I collect calabash-shaped briar pipes. Certainly, I've had my dalliances with Barlings, Charatans, and Dunhills, and a few wonderful Lovats have graced my racks over the years. I'm a focused collector, but not to the exclusion of some wonderful pipes in other shapes. Yet I have always remained fascinated by the calabash shape. Richard Carleton Hacker's "The Ultimate Pipe Book" sparked my collecting interest. The photo on page 116 shows six calabash-shaped pipes in briar or meerschaum arranged around an antique reading glass. Soon after reading that book, I found an Aldo Velani briar calabash in my local Tinderbox store, and I've been collecting the shape ever since. Of course, in my ignorance, I thought I was blazing a new trail. In reality, George Brissie, now of Uptown's Pipe Shop, was collecting and popularizing the calabash shape long before I took up the pipe. Still, the calabash shape is certainly not as popular a motif as the bulldog, billiard, or apple. Nor does it have the current notoriety of the Castello #84 hawkbill shape, so marvelously represented by the collections of my friends Mike McCain and Mike Davis. | ||
A Question | A Question | ||
My musings on the definition of the calabash shape started at the 2000 Chicagoland International Pipe and Tobacciana Show. I had displayed my collection and was enjoying talking about the shape with the many attendees who passed by my table. A gentleman was examining one of my Castello #49s and asked, "Why do you consider this a calabash?" The question caught me completely off guard. Of course, the 49 is Castello's calabash shape, and it had never really occurred to me to think of it otherwise. Yet when you look over the variety of pipes in my collection, a Castello #49 is certainly different than a Ser Jacopo Picta #3 calabash. So what defines a calabash shape? | My musings on the definition of the calabash shape started at the 2000 Chicagoland International Pipe and Tobacciana Show. I had displayed my collection and was enjoying talking about the shape with the many attendees who passed by my table. A gentleman was examining one of my Castello #49s and asked, "Why do you consider this a calabash?" The question caught me completely off guard. Of course, the 49 is Castello's calabash shape, and it had never really occurred to me to think of it otherwise. Yet when you look over the variety of pipes in my collection, a Castello #49 is certainly different than a Ser Jacopo Picta #3 calabash. So what defines a calabash shape? | ||
The Genesis of a Theory | The Genesis of a Theory | ||