WALTON Special

August 30, 2013October 1, 2022

England

Birmingham is the second by population city of England, a big industrial center, the city of Lunar Society. It was was a dinner club and informal learned society of prominent figures in the Midlands Enlightenment, including industrialists, natural philosophers and intellectuals, who met regularly between 1765 and 1813. The name arose because the society would meet during the full moon, as the extra light made the journey home easier and safer in the absence of street lighting.

What they did smoke? It’s hardly possible to found today these clay or porcelain pipes. But we can show and share with you the pipe smoked in Birmingham 200 years later, in the middle of XX century.The pipe marking is”WALTON\ SPECIAL \ BIRMINGHAM”.

The lenghts is 14.5 cm, bowl’s hight is 4.0 cm. External and internal diameters of it’s bowl are 3.7 cm and 2.1 cm. The depth is 3.3 cm and this pipe weights 39 gr. Briar, vulcanite stem, no filter.

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MADE IN LONDON 202
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Cornishman London Made
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Palm Pipe 2
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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…
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Unbranded English bulldog
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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…
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CHARATAN’S MAKE Perfection 4148DC unsmoked
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England, 1960-70s The Charatan’s pipe of a quite rare series: the Perfection grade was introduced during the “second Lane era”, 1965-1976 and followed the highly popular and respected Special grade, though production of Perfection pipes seemed to be rather occasional than regular. The grain is contrast and clear, the shape is traditional for Lane era…
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London Made unsmoked
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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.
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