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  1. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Us Your Briarlees

    Supposedly the Opera shape was intended to create a lower profile in a suit jacket pocket. At any rate, the oval bowl is interesting and is one I hadn’t seen from Briarlee. A dark contrast highlights the grain but also makes a couple fills more obvious.
  2. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Us Your Briarlees

    Squat Rhodesian or Bullmoose, this one cleaned up well and has that gnarly Custom-Bilt carving that feels good in hand.
  3. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Off Your Lee Pipes Here!

    They made at least a few for the catalog I have.
  4. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Off Your Lee Pipes Here!

    That’s my fifth 1-star, all 2nd/3rd Gen. I’d love to find a 7-pt.
  5. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Off Your Lee Pipes Here!

    Found another 1-star. This time a 3rd Gen Bulldog with the stamped Star all but eradicated. If I weren’t lazy I’d reshoot this last one after cleaning that one edge…
  6. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Us Your Briarlees

    Lee put out Strollers under both the Lee and Briarlee brands, though I’ve only seen the former in a catalog. They were typically medium to large bowls with short stems—lightweight and made for clenching. This one, quite oddly, has a full length stem. I understand not shortening the stem of a...
  7. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Off Your Lee Pipes Here!

    Another nice Trailblazer.
  8. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Us Your Briarlees

    I’d never seen a panel Zulu. Apparently Briarlee made one. Didn’t completely restore the rim because I didn’t want to reshape it.
  9. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Us Your Briarlees

    Briarlee’s Goodfellow was a Pete knockoff including something of a reservoir and a pseudo p-lip stem. This one has nice birdseye on one side and straights on the other.
  10. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Off Your Lee Pipes Here!

    I have a replacement stem made by Tim West for one of my figural pipes (Indian head, previously posted). He transferred the three 7-pt stars from the original stem…and aligned them better than the factory had.
  11. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Off Your Lee Pipes Here!

    This 2-star author in Custom-Bilt rustication/carving has either a replacement stem or tenon. The non-metal tenon threads and clocks correctly, so either way it was a nice job.
  12. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Off Your Lee Pipes Here!

    Here’s a straight Rhodesian. For me it’s unusual because most Lee Rhodesians I’ve seen are of the more squat, chunky style unlike this slender-stemmed one. Pretty birdseye on the heel.
  13. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Off Your Lee Pipes Here!

    The rustication on both is very consistent—and consistent with each other—and each has the same “frame” around the stamping.
  14. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Off Your Lee Pipes Here!

    Here’s an interesting one…Poker with flat sides and odd little bevels. This was 3 stamped stars, but they were almost buffed out when I got it. I deoxidized, but left the stem matte rather than polish them completely off. Hard to tell from these pics, but they’re still faintly visible. I’m not...
  15. Parsimonious Piper

    Show Off Your Lee Pipes Here!

    Another Bulldog, this time a 7-pt 2-star Star Grain with some very nice grain.
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