England
The pipe marking is “LONDON MADE”. The lenghts is 14.7 cm, bowl’s hight is 4.0 cm. External and internal diameters of the bowl are 2.6 cm and 1.7 cm. The depth is 3.6 cm and this pipe weights 21 gr. Briar, vulcanite stem, no filter.
England, 1960-70s If we had to describe an ideal vacation we would express many ideas, but one of the most attractive intentions would be to go in the year, say, 1974 to London and visit Fribourg & Treyer pipe shop at 34, Haymarket. It would be really amazing to look at their pipes, to test…
England There will be a number of pipes marked “Reject” in our collection. This mark doesn’t mean that the pipe is of a poor quality. Moreover the most of “rejects” are pipes from production lines of famous manufacturers rejected due to minor issues with a grain or a small cavern in wood. Such small defects…
England, 1954 A very unusual unsmoked Hardcastle’s pipe from the period between 1946 and 1967. That was a really great time for this brand: the company belonged already completely to Dunhill, but keeped family management and production traditions. The bamboo shank makes this pipe absolutely attractive and absolutely rare and the shield with the engraved…
England, 1960-70s Fribourg & Treyer was perhaps the most reputable English tobacconist. “While most collectors are familiar with the “Royal Appointment” accorded certain well-established businesses in England (most commonly seen on Dunhill packaging) FRIBOURG & TREYER’s not only held an identical appointment by the King of England, but they also had a similar “Royal Appointment”…
USA This nice canadian shape pipe from 1950s required some more efforts than an usual pipe. First of all the stain and varnish was destroyed over many years and we decided to remove them all except pipe markings area. Second problem was a lost or damaged part of an air cooler and we had to…
England, 1910s This very old English pipe was obtained with a really interesting 1912-13 pipe collection. As you can see pipe makers at these times didn’t pay too much attention to grain and pipes were rather compact – probably because smokers preferred heavy natural tobacco contrary to our modern aromatics. Since there’s no silver collar…