It's called a Calabash pipe. Not a Sherlock. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who created the character never had him smoking a calabash at all but a churchwarden. Basil Rathbone who made the character famous in the old black and white films was himself a pipe smoker and asked to use one of his own in the first film. Thus the famous 'Sherlock Holmes' pipe was set in history.
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