England
The brand was founded in 1900 and integrated to Parker-Hardcastle Ltd in 1967. This example dates from the 1930’s.
The pipe is 15.5 cm long, 5.4 cm tall and weights 34 gr. The bowl’s external diameter is 3.5 cm, inner – 2.2 cm, inner depth – 4.5 cm.The marking is “Masta Patent Standard 513”.Vulcanite stem, no filter, the bowl has been protected with the carbon break in paste.
England, 1910 An extraordinary piece of the English pipe making history. Masta patent is mostly known as the company aquired by Dunhill in 1946 and incorporated to Parker-Hardcastle in 1967. As states pipedia, the brand no longer appears to exist after these changes.
England, 1970s The Londoner line was introduced already after the acquisition of the Barling family business by Imperial Tobacco. But after some time the production of most pipes including the Londoner series was moved to other countries such as Italy, Denmark and France. Therefore our pipe is quite rare because it has been made still…
England, 1960s This attractive freehand is not different from the Lane era Charatan’s make Relief Grain series pipes, and this is not surprising: the pipe was made at the same factory during the same period by the same carvers. Actually we don’t see any convincing reasons why it was stamped Ben Wade, not Charatan’s Make….
Germany A true German mainstream! Among with Siemens, Lufthansa, Mercedes and many many other names Vauen became a real World known symbol of German quality, hard work and systematic approach in any manufacturing area! The De Luxe series is traditionally completed with silver collars. Quite lightly smoked pipe with the original pipe bag and box.
Denmark There is a quite frequent and contradictory practice when capable and professional specialists are promoted to manager’s positions. Nobody knows whether a promoted engineer will be a good manager. But he definitely won’t be as good specialist as before.
England, 1960-70s A Charatan’s pipe of “the second Lane era” (1965-76), the period of the brightest blossoming of this brand, delightful shapes and grains, which eclipsed all others pipe makers including Dunhill. There’s no shape number on the pipe – it was made by one of the leading carvers at this factory regardless any catalogues….
What is “break-in paste” and how does it protect the bowl. I’ve been smoking & refurbishing pipes for a couple years, but still have a universe of information to learn.
thanks
special paste that contains activated charcoal. The exact mixture is a master’s secret 🙂