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  1. jguss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Todd has worked hard to establish a good following. Who shows up is easily as important as what’s being sold.
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    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    MM Importing is tricky. Some claim Sasieni was their supplier but the one’s I’ve felt sure about were always Comoy.
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    Does This Look Like Cancer?

    Finally, a euphemism I’ve never heard before. And all the cool kids on the other forums say pipesmagazine isn’t edifying.
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    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Jesus Christ and General Jackson! At that price I’d cheerfully cough up a couple of Guinea Grains and throw in one of my kidneys to boot. Incidentally, little known fact: Barling actually trademarked Guinea Grain in 1922, but if one has survived that predates the model’s relaunch ~1953 I’ve...
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    Any info on Jobey Shellmoor?

    There’s an earlier story set here in the good ol’ USA. I’m on a plane but will try to find time for a little digging next week
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    Why do Sellers Avoid Pics of the Chamber?

    I also procured a bespoke Villeroy & Boch bone china dinner set of the same pattern; perhaps a place setting of those instead? Or even just a dessert plate?
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    Why do Sellers Avoid Pics of the Chamber?

    I beg to differ. I’ll match the pictures from my colonoscopy against anybody’s. Hell, I put one on a mug I made on Zazzle.
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    Pipe manufacturer (ER WEGG) information

    Crisp closeup shots of all the silver stampings wouldn’t hurt
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    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Congratulations on a nice score! The Everyman is especially interesting since it’s uncommon to find specimens that can be confidently dated as very early production (the model was launched in 1925 to commemorate the putative centenary of the Comoy family’s entry into pipe making).
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    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    My guess is the latter. It’s a not very subtle suggestion that this is the perfect gift to send your father/brother/son/husband who’s serving in the military. I believe A&W also sold pipes stamped AWOL (“Absent Without Leave”) and D (“Deserter”), but these were much less popular as Christmas...
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    Does the Quality of a Pipe Increase with its Price?

    I’ve looked at this a great deal and an analysis of the relationship between quality and price yields a scatter plot with an R² of almost zero. Interestingly enough if you plot price against price the correlation is virtually perfect.
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    Help Identify Early Comoy Second?

    The very few mentions of H&H I was able to find (the above advertisement and two listings in the London phone books) all date from 1926-1927, suggesting that H&H, at least under that name, was a shortlived enterprise
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    Tyson vs Paul

    Yes, he was the man
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    Paging George Dibos!

    Looks more like a Vulcanite mime to me.