Legend has it, in 1869 a Missouri farmer with no pipe to pack, resourcefully whittled one from a corn cob.  The corn cob pipe's very existence seems to support the old maxim that "necessity is the mother of invention".  In a similar spirit, we may also say that limitation breeds creativity.  We think that's exemplified in how now, 155 years from that first cob, Missouri Meerschaum continues to bring originality to new designs. The Mockingbird was designed in collaboration between the talented folks here at Missouri Meerschaum and TobaccoPipe's very own Jake McKenna, the artist behind Sutliff Tobacco's beloved Birds of a Feather tin art. This tall, Rob Roy style bowl tapers upward into a wide, broad, rounded rim and features a dark stain fading toward the bottom to reveal a vibrant amber-orange base that is adorned with a brown hardwood shank, nickel ferrule and a taupe Italian acrylic bit accented with wisps of pale beige that shimmer in the light.