England
The pipe markings are “MADE IN \ LONDON ENGLAND” . The length is 14.9 cm, bowl’s height is 5.5 cm. External diameter of the bowl is 4.0 cm, internal diameter is 2.3 cm. The depth is 4.5 cm and this pipe weights 44 gr. Briar, vulcanite stem, no filter.
England A nicely made English pipe. The heavy bowled bent shape and cross cut grain look quite similar to Charatan’s products from 1960’s, but the pipe is just a beautiful item regardless its origin. And the dark spot on the bowl’s back doesn’t prevent a smoking pleasure.
England One of the mysterious pipes with the palm (hand) logo on the stem (it still visible on this pipe, but it’s a bit faded already). Our investigation brought us to the McGahey tobacconist in Exeter, UK. Some of such “palm” pipes were created or repaired by their carver and stamped with this logo. Unfortunately…
England, 1964 We are working now on a detailed article dedicated to this brand, therefore this post will be updated very soon. The story promises to be very interesting and even a bit detective. But so far we’d like to brag about the very lucky acquisition – unsmoked Ross Arundel canadian pipe from 1964 with…
England This pipe is not so easy to identify as we may expect from a straight shape pipe. During different time periods the brand name “Grosvenor” was used both by Charatan and Sasieni. Nevertheless neither from the pipe’s nomenclature nor from it’s shape we can say definitely that the pipe belongs to one of these…
England Just a “London Made” pipe from the middle of the XX century. Many of such pipes were made by Parker-Hardcastle’s, but due to some unknown reasons didn’t obtain an official manufacturer stamping. Pleasant and comfortable classical English sandblasted bent billiard for an affordable price!
England There isn’t too much we can tell about this pipe. It also comes from the 1950th collection. The marking is “Cornishman London Made”. The more we are getting familiar with english pipes the more we feel that in the middle of XX century there was a special pipe brand in every town (like there…