The joys and dangers of Ebay pipes

**OC Richard** · 17th April 25, 04:09 PM

Look to be a set by Dunbar, probably polypenco, well under $600

https://www.ebay.com/itm/33591027667...ndition=4%7C10

**OC Richard** · 22nd April 25, 04:28 AM

Currently under $500 but 10 bids in and four days to go, a set of McCallum pipes.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/39651220490...ndition=4%7C10

My concern is that we don't know when they were made.

The fact that a chunk of a mount chipped off suggests that they were made when McCallum was using that brittle resin stuff that so many makers used (and some still use). More recently McCallum switched to the slightly darker-coloured extremely tough stuff that Dunbar has been using for a long time.

The concern is that I don't care for the pre-2011 McCallums. I owned one. The Bass was very unstable. I got rid of it.

In 2011 McCallum revised all their drone specs, following Willie McCallum's 1890 Hendersons. The original McCallums were kinda-sorta-semi-based on Stuart McCallum's "WWI" Lawries. I've owned Lawries from before and after WWI and their basses were extremely stable.

**OC Richard** · 8th May 25, 05:48 AM

Not super cheap but far under the going rate is this set of MacRae model McCallum pipes, $900.

These have been very popular and I see tons of pipers playing them, pipers who in some cases own vintage Hendersons etc.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/197293575844

I don't know much about Wallace pipes but for $750 you can get a solid Scottish-made pipe

https://www.ebay.com/itm/23604591879...ndition=4%7C10

**OC Richard** · 9th May 25, 02:40 PM

Here's a grab-your-popcorn set, Robertsons.

Currently under $1,000 but they will well surpass that.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/25692417636...ndition=4%7C10

**OC Richard** · 9th May 25, 04:01 PM

And these, same seller, really low now but will rise, though not as much as the Robertsons.

I don't know what they are- Grainger & Campbell??

https://www.ebay.com/itm/25692417882...ndition=4%7C10

**OC Richard** · 28th July 25, 02:47 PM

Incredibly low price for a Scottish-made set of smallpipes

https://www.ebay.com/itm/26734290298...ndition=4%7C10

**OC Richard** · 9th August 25, 04:21 AM

This won't last long, $1400 for a vintage ivory-mounted set. Within the USA so no ivory import issues.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/33611516252...ndition=4%7C10