Restoring a 1960’s Brigham 127 Straight Brandy

Dizzy Gillespie enjoying a pipe

(Dad's Pipes) This older Brigham pipe came to me in a mixed eBay estate lot, and at first glance I took it for a basic Billiard. Closer examination and a shape number unrelated to Brigham’s Billiard pipes changed my mind. Ultimately, I’ve labelled this pipe a Straight Brandy Sitter as the bowl walls taper inwards from base to rim and the bottom of the shank is flat.
Here is the pipe as it looked when I started working on it. Continued