England
The pipe marking is “MADE IN LONDON \ ENGLAND”, “202” . The lenghts is 15.8 cm, bowl’s hight is 4.8 cm. External and internal diameters of the bowl are 3.4 cm and 2.1 cm. The depth is 4.1 cm and this pipe weights 37 gr. Briar, acrylic stem, no filter.
USA, 1950s An American classic from the 1950s, the era of rock’n’roll, big beautiful cars with loud radio receivers (is the series name a hint on the Oldsmobile Starfire? :-) ) and the blossoming of many American pipe brands. Nevertheless, this Dr. Grabow’s Starfire with its wire carved finish can’t be confused with any other…
England, 1960s First of all, this is the Dunhill pipe, no need to perform long explanations. Secondly, it has a very popular, respected and cool smoked canadian shape. Thirdly, it has no year suffix what is very rare for the post WWII Dunhill pipes, experts say it is the 1960 Dunhill most probably. And fourthly,…
Italy While one of the most popular W.O. Larsen series was named “Cognac”, Italian manufacturer preferred another drink, much more expressive and much more southern – champagne! The “champagne” pipes were successfully produced since 1980’s and they remind the legendary sparkling wine by the specific color of stain.
France “Lupenrein” is a German word meaning “flawless”, “perfect”, “clean” (f.e. “clean diamond”) and we really couldn’t identify any issues with briar. Also interesting that the number 309 for such canadian shape pipes was widely used by Comoy’s during its best times and we suspect even refined experts couldn’t distinguish the pipe and English made…
Italy An Italian “electrical pipe” inspired by St Claude! Gerolamo Ceresa began at the end of the XIX century as a subcontractor for Rossi Factory (Barasso), but soon (1919) he founded new own very modern operated electrically (!) factory under the name “Gerolamo Ceresa – Fabbrica elettrica pipe”. That was a real break through at…
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…