GBD

GBD (Flame Grain) Reject

April 21, 2016January 14, 2019

England

A rare, amazing and really lightly smoked example of GBD pipes art before the merge with Comoy’s. It’s difficult to say why the pipe was marked as a “Reject” – except a small darkening on the chamber’s bottom apparently there’s nothing.

The pipe markings are “Reject” and “GBD” (on the stem). The length is 12.8 cm, bowl’s hight is 4.6 cm. External and internal diameters of the bowl are 3.6 cm and 2.0 cm. The depth is 4.0 cm and this pipe weights 35gr. Briar, vulcanite stem, no filter.

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