MM108 BLACK PIPESTONE MIC MAC STYLE PIPE with SUMAC STEM PEACE PIPE

Description

MM108 HAND CARVED BLACK PIPESTONE MIC MAC STYLE PIPE with SUMAC STEM.   Pipestone Native American Style All Photos and written material in this listing - Copyrighted 2020 J.Rather
Please let us know if you don't see the style pipe you're looking for here, as we would be happy to help you with your vision of your personal prayer pipe or collectible pipe.
Blessings, Jay & Karen Rather and Family
Details:
Here is an Awesome Black Mic Mac Style Pipe with a Sumac stem.
The bowl is hand carved by Jay Rather from a very nice piece of black pipestone or steatite. The bowl has been conically drilled. It has a super polish, very clean lines and classic styling.
The stem is hand carved and hot wire reamed from Sumac. This stem has been stained with natural pigments, polished to a fine luster, and waxed to protect.
This pipe is brand new, never smoked, and it's fully functional. It was created recently by expert pipe carver, Jay Rather.
Measurements:
Bowl Measures 2 & 1/2 inches tall
Overall Length with stem inserted 14 & 1/2 inches long
This will be very well packaged, quickly shipped, and SHIPPING IS FREE, we use USPS 3 Day Priority Mail/Insured/Tracking to protect your in investment.
We will be happy to help if you have any questions please contact us via Ebay Messaging.
More Info:
Please Visit Our EBay Store to see more Native American Style Pipes and more hand carved "modern day artifacts", created by Jay Rather, The Pipecarver. For a photo gallery of Jay's work visit his site, Type the following into your web browser: ThePipecarver
We will be happy to discuss custom work, to be sold here on EBay for an individual. Thanks!
When using materials such as sinew, antler, horn, bone, feather, fur, skin, shell, quill, hair, claws, teeth, scales, oil and fat, or any other part of an animal we are appreciative for its life and gift to us and thank the Creator.
*Note: Natural materials are used in waxes, pigments/stains, and other treatments of our finished items. We are concerned with the health of our family and our customer and caring for our environment is very important to us. We recycle and upcycle when possible, aspiring to be good stewards.
Each pipe is prayerfully crafted asking that in its new owners hands it brings about blessings and much good.
* Please note: We have been asked and in answer, We Do Not use lathes in creating Any of our Stems. Our one piece stems are hot wire reamed.
Our Family Thanks You--Our Returning Customers, and Looks Forward to Making New!
Note to Buyers
Prior to Purchase, Please read our payment, shipping, and return policies. It is imperative that you have your correct address on file with EBay and Paypal. When we offer free shipping, it's for the first time only (our door to yours). Buyers will be responsible to pay for shipping if we must reship items, returned to us due to incorrect or deemed an undeliverable address by the USPS. Additionally, Buyers wishing to return or exchange items must pay for return shipping. If you have any questions whatsoever, use Ebay messaging and we'll be happy to assist you. Custom orders are done when time allows and will be listed here on EBay upon completion so that EBay commissions and fees are appropriated to them, and Buyer and Seller Protections are available.
We apologize but we must ask the following as of late: Please do not ask us AFTER you have made a purchase to ship to an alternative address than your verified address on file, or ask us to "hold" a shipment for a later date. Ebay requires us to ship 3 business days from purchase and to ship to verified addresses. Please contact us before purchasing and we will work out a solution. One more Please :-)
Please do not contact us AFTER purchase and ask us to alter, change, or modify an item you have purchased. The item's price is for the finished product in the listing and does not include any further labor and/or material costs for modifying or altering it. If you are need of an item that is different than what you see, perhaps in another size, color, shape, etc., please contact us via Ebay messaging and we will do what we can to accommodate your needs with another item in stock or create one to your specifications.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jay Rather, "The Pipecarver":
Rather began, his artistic career as a Realistic Watercolor Artist, with nationwide gallery affiliations and his work became part of private as well as corporate art collections. He has had a lifelong interest in all things "Native American", greatly admiring all forms of their artwork. He began collecting artifacts, and then replicating the beauty he found in them. He creates using traditional design as well as his own.
Rather has been offering his Modern, Hand Carved, American Indian Style Pipes first and foremost to Native Americans and others for their Spiritual Journeys with Prayer Pipes, Medicine Pipes and for Ceremonial purposes for two decades. His work has been purchased by Native Americans, collectors, museums, educational institutions, and the motion picture industry, throughout North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.
Rather uses Quality Pipestone of Sacred Catlinite , Steatite, and other stone used by pipe makers of the past. Styles include: Plains Indian T Pipes, Effigy, Disc, Platform, Tube, Pipe-Tomahawk, Mic-Mac, and Elbow Pipes to name a few. In addition to pipes Rather is a knife maker and knaps points and blades from flint and other materials. You will also find his work to include fine celts, axes, banner stones, gorgets, discoidals, pendants,and more.
Rather, known as "The Pipecarver", has an online photo gallery by that same name, where a collection of some of his work (pipes and repro artifacts) including the work of his son, Lance Rather, an expert carver of effigy pipes can be viewed. Along with those talented carvers, Jay's wife Karen, also working predominately in effigy pipes carves as well. Most works on "THEPIPECARVER" Web Site, in the photo gallery have been sold, but a few are available. If available, we will happily list the item for your purchase, here on EBay, or we will discuss a similar custom made work created to meet your needs, and at completion listed on Ebay. We also have another online store, at ETSY dot com named " Pipecarvers" and will move an item from there, to a listing here on Ebay, upon Customer Request. Drop us a message if we can be of help.
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All Photos and written material in this listing are Copyrighted 2020by J.Rather