Billie W. Taylor II, Ph.D.
Collection

Baker Egerton told me that Mel Rudner was offering this pipe on an eBay auction. He had a couple of other briars with it in the lot. As part of our correspondence, I learned that Mel had a couple of other damaged pyrolytic graphite pipes and we arranged to swap the briars for the broken pipes. There was a Berkeley THE SMOKE with no stem and a blue Venturi pot with a broken shank. I found this last interesting because one can see a bit of the construction of these critters. When I got a better example of this shape/color I sold this one to Tyler Weaver.