Not as much pipe smoking in this one either but it’s a very different model than as seen in GRAND DUEL. Looks like Ryan managed to find his way into a pipe shop in Rome before heading into town with those 27 bullets the warden had kept in the drawer for 15 years.
From the scene on the porch, the stem looking like a white molded plastic in this one.
Looks like another bent billiard, definitely a wood bowl and an out-of-period acrylic stem, unless the film is set after 1941 (or 1933 for lucite).
Now we’re in the hotel room after he plugs Cavanaugh’s first bad investment. Good view of the curve shape of the stem and its molded properties. That band of material connecting the stem to the neck is pretty interesting too, looks almost like leather, and its hopefully distinctive enough to be a hallmark for a particular style or even brand. Anyone?
Classic. From the neck up first there’s a yellow metal band, then the connecting bit of material before another very thin band piece & then the neck. Stem is looking more transparent from this angle.
There we go. Flattened top-on view but its definitely a smooth finish (though not quite polished) briar or other wood bowl and definitely a plastic stem with my first guess being acrylic due to the transparency. Remember that Ryan has supposedly been in prison for 15 years, the warden had his $86 and gunbelt but we don’t see him handing over a pipe. Even a cheap old beat up one that some guy breaking rocks on a chain gang might have been smoking for 15 years when not swinging his hammer, but they don’t explain the costume change from his prison stripes either. Maybe it was just in the pocket of his coat for all that time.
Random screenshot generator image from the scene where Ryan waits for Bill & gives him his first few pointers.
And one more where he gets off the train with the stem looking very whitish & plastic. So a little less care taken here in the choice of that pipe as a prop compared to the Colonel’s meerschaum & the Angel Eyes Wellington. Though I will admit that up until this evening when making the screenshots I’d never even thought about it. “He’s Lee Van Cleef, he smokes a pipe & that’s all there is to it.” Not any more!!