Denmark, 1970s One of the “Danish Ben Wade” pipes created by ingenious Danish carver Preben Holm in 1970s by order of Hermann Lane, known as the owner and main ideologist of Charatan’s factory at its highest time. So was beginning the era of freehand pipes.
England, 1978-84 It seems to be one of the early pipes made under the James Upshall roof by Barry Jones, former top carver at Charatan’s. The company was founded in 1978, prior to 1996 Tilshead pipes had no logo on the stem and no size designations. Also after 1984 Upshall acquired a pantograph from the…
Ireland, 2008 A pipe from the luxury 7-pipes series initiated by Peterson’s in 1987 to honour Sir Arthur Conan Doyle characters: Sherlock Holmes Original, Watson, Squire, Professor, Deerstalker, Baskerville and Baker Street. Soon after the “Original” series success an additional “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” collection was launched with the 7 additional shapes: The Mycroft,…
Ireland, 1972 “While the Premier System stamp was formally announced in our 1945 catalogue, the design itself dates to our original System grading system, where it was known simply as the Second Grade, a higher-tiered System pipe meant to bridge the gap between our entry-level System and Deluxe models. … the Premier System pipe incorporates…
Ireland, 2006 This amazing Peterson’s canadian shaped pipe with the silver cap is really a wonderful artisan’s tribute to old ad everlasting traditional Petersons. “Each pipe in this range is distinguished by its fill-free finish, either smooth or sandblasted, and expert metal fitments, shaped and applied by the hands of our most experienced craftsman. Our…
Ireland The pipe remains in our private collection: all its parameters and qualities fit perfectly – the size, the finish and of course the manufacturer!
England, 1999 The largest of the serial production Dunhill Cumberlands. Absolutely convincing, absolutely capacious and absolutely traditional English billiard from the greatest manufacturer!
France Zino Davidoff (1906-1994), one of the most famous tobacco businessmen and revolutionary (even iconic) people of the XX century’s culture said “the pipe is a valuable companion, the essence of tranquility and must be smoked with respect”. Of course, rich variety of luxury tobacco and tobacco related products offered under the Davidoff brand would…
Germany, 1939-45 VAUEN is really a phenomenal company – one of the oldest and largest Europian pipe businesses remains at the same time very flexible and innovative: they not only freely experiment with shapes and finishes, but regularly offer basically new solutions such as the “Pipo” or the “Zeppelin”. Unfortunately unlike other big manufacturers the…
England We can pretty sure classify the pipe as a Parker-Hardcastle product: such the stamping “MADE IN LONDON \ ENGLAND” is typical for this Dunhill subsidiary. Actually there are no other English company with the same COM (Country of Manufacturing) in trustworthy sources, but please correct us if you know something.