This is the second item I picked up at Thrift America this morning! It was sitting under a glass case next to some old lighters, a corn cob pipe, and some other smoking memoribilia. I asked the clerk to take it out of the case so I could have a better look at it. The price tag listed this little pipe at $4.99. Not too bad and it looked to be in decent shape...no cracks or chips in the stem--a nice little full bent billiard. The stamp on the pipe identified it as a Medico Crest Imported Briar with the number 32 printed on the other side of the shank. The bent stem has a faded crest shield and there is a metal ring separating the shank and stem. When I brought it home, I immediately started soaking the stem and washing/wiping down the bowl to remove the layers of tar/dirt. The stem had some chatter marks which I smoothed out with some 1000 grit sandpaper and buffed out with my buffing wheel. The briar grain can be seen now through dark stain after a good cleaning and buffing with some carnuba wax. I don't have a reamer yet but this little booger could use it. I took a little piece of 1000 grit sandpaper and smoothed out the cake on the inner chamber...it'll do for now. I forgot to mention that the tennon is made of metal that connects to the mortise of the stem. It accepts the 6mm filter that Medico produces (or others such as Dr. Grabow) and I just bought a few new boxes of the filters for one of my other pipes. I don't have any details on the year is was produced, but Ben (trashdigger123 on IG) says that Medico was a popular brand of the 70's. We'll see what I can dig up on the interwebs! This pipe cleaned up nicely and I'm currently smoking a bowl of Bell's Three Nuns...smokes juuuuuust fine!
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