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Message:: [QUOTE="ola402, post: 366833, member: 182"]Don't know the value but I wanted to add that you can't sell it on e bay.  I had a Japanese tobacco pipe (long, made of wood and metal) that I tried to sell there, but I thought it was an opium pipe and advertised it as Antique Opium Pipe and  my listing was taken down and I got a strike for trying to sell "drug paraphernalia".  I later learned that it was a Japanese kiseru, but I never relisted it, just kept it.  Another one like it had sold the week before and I was mystified as to why I was targeted and not the other listing.  Lucky, I guess.  Turns out it was from the Spanish American war era and belonged to a long past relative who brought it back.  Ended up in my grandmother's things.  Bottom line, no opium pipes on e bay. FYI, Kiseru from wiki Kiseru (煙管 kiseru) is a Japanese smoking pipe traditionally used for smoking kizami, a finely shredded tobacco product resembling hair. ... Because each kiseru is basically a rod with metal ends, extremely long kiseru could be carried as weapons, especially by the gangster-like kabukimono samurai of Edo period Japan.[/QUOTE]