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<p>[QUOTE="Paul W, post: 9466955, member: 77343"]Looks good, bosko69! </p><p>I agree with kryatango's "A pretty tourist piece (I've yet to see genuine pipes with those assembled bone plaques...)", although I would add, an older one. I would say it was used, judging by the washer and the apparent dross encrustation. Btw, the standard "bowl" stem (which would be brass) has an outside diameter of about 15mm, so you could check to see if that corresponds to the inside diameter of the opening. </p><p><br /></p><p>On a pipe made to be used rather than a souvenir, the hole leading from the stem into the shaft would be larger than yours, about the same diameter as the inside of the stem. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are a few appropriate opium pipe bowls on eBay right now starting at $160, not cheap. Maybe save a couple of differently-worded searches and see what comes up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Paul W, post: 9466955, member: 77343"]Looks good, bosko69! I agree with kryatango's "A pretty tourist piece (I've yet to see genuine pipes with those assembled bone plaques...)", although I would add, an older one. I would say it was used, judging by the washer and the apparent dross encrustation. Btw, the standard "bowl" stem (which would be brass) has an outside diameter of about 15mm, so you could check to see if that corresponds to the inside diameter of the opening. On a pipe made to be used rather than a souvenir, the hole leading from the stem into the shaft would be larger than yours, about the same diameter as the inside of the stem. There are a few appropriate opium pipe bowls on eBay right now starting at $160, not cheap. Maybe save a couple of differently-worded searches and see what comes up.[/QUOTE]
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