Gordon Joens (gjoesn99) offered this buffed from English Blue Pot on eBay. The valuable thing is that it came with Early packaging and the 1965-67 version of the The Story of the pipe. There were two pipes in the lot and, since the packaging was identical and the other pipe was not buffed to black, I kept it in the collection and offer this one for sale. Michael Zimmerman got it for his very own.