I received my first order from AND today. I ordered a classic mini to test the claims made for meerschaum pipes. This is my first meerschaum. Partway through the second bowl, I ordered a full-size model. I reserve the right to come to my senses later, but right now it seems the wild claims about how cool a meerschaum smokes are, if anything, understated.
As they say..."you get what you pay for". I have several meerschaum pipes from Meerschaum market. They are works of art with top of the line quality meerschaum. I find the "And" product as not as high a quality meerschaum but still smokes very cool. My pipe had a chip in the fillagree carving and the bottom of mouthpiece was cracked. You can certainly tell this pipe was NOT carved by a master carver. So as you can see you DO get what you pay for. You want a cheap meerschaum pipe these are the best I have found. You want a high quality great smoking meerschaum pipe......you will need to look elsewhere.