sablebrush, good questions. The orifice is a hole, which is indicative of an early date. The one thing which is very strange and unusual is the way the mouthpiece is attached to the stem. It's a screw thread but very fine . I'll have to take a photo of it, if I can find a way to post a picture on here. What is really strange is there is no COM stamped on it, you usually have some clue.
CAN ANYONE IDENTIFY THIS PIPE?
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foolwiththefez well that's a great shame but you are entitled to place your business with whomever you want. Good luck with all your future acquisitions.
Screw tenon would place the pipe in the 1920's at the latest, and probably earlier. Pipemakers moved away from that joinery in the early years of the 20th century, though such pieces continued to be made into the '20's. Is the tenon bone?
The lack of any other identifiers tends to support the notion of a proprietary tobacconist's name. Nothing stamped on the case?
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sablebrush I'll photograph it tomorrow it is not a normal screw tenon. If I can find out how to upload a photo on here.
You might try this!
To get photos to load quickly and show in the post, you first have to upload the photo to this site.
1.) Login
2.) Go to My Account (may have hit Home button first) and down to Album
3.) Choose Upload Picture (navigate to photo you've given a sensible name to), be sure to then hit Upload.
4.) Go back to Album, click on thumbnail to open full size image. Right click (Windows); Control Click (Mac) and copy the URL, then paste same in desired thread, using the IMG tag in the compose window.
To get photos to load quickly and show in the post, you first have to upload the photo to this site.
1.) Login
2.) Go to My Account (may have hit Home button first) and down to Album
3.) Choose Upload Picture (navigate to photo you've given a sensible name to), be sure to then hit Upload.
4.) Go back to Album, click on thumbnail to open full size image. Right click (Windows); Control Click (Mac) and copy the URL, then paste same in desired thread, using the IMG tag in the compose window.
sablebush I'm afraid I misled you with my earlier post in describing the mouthpiece I got it mixed up with another pipe I have. OK the end of the mouthpiece is just the normal slit and the mouthpiece is a normal tenon not a screwfit.
By the way I have a copy of Pipes, Artisan and Trademarks by Jose Manuel Lopes and also 'Who Made that Pipe' by Wilczak and Colwell (it's actually Tom Colwell's personal copy) as well as numerous catalogues dating back to 1900 and loads of advertisements etc so if anyone has a pipe they can't quite identify please feel free to drop me a PM, always happy to help. As you can see I have finally found a way to load pictures.
Yes, you did it! And nice job with the close up.
Let me back up and apologize for criticizing your photos. At the time, you appeared to be a person— a "civilian" if you will, not a professional pipe merchant— who was asking a question regarding a pipe he was thinking of buying or had bought, and used pictures from the site of the merchant to illustrate. There was no indication that it was you, Bob Hinton, and that you were indeed "Bob's Briars"; and you completely avoided or evaded answering several direct questions from me and others.
Had I known those were your photos, I would not have critiqued them as strongly as I did. By telling you to man up I was referring to being apparent as to who you are. Regretfully I went over the top in pursuing that. Apology offered!
And I regret I haven't any notion re Peter Pump. Good luck!
Let me back up and apologize for criticizing your photos. At the time, you appeared to be a person— a "civilian" if you will, not a professional pipe merchant— who was asking a question regarding a pipe he was thinking of buying or had bought, and used pictures from the site of the merchant to illustrate. There was no indication that it was you, Bob Hinton, and that you were indeed "Bob's Briars"; and you completely avoided or evaded answering several direct questions from me and others.
Had I known those were your photos, I would not have critiqued them as strongly as I did. By telling you to man up I was referring to being apparent as to who you are. Regretfully I went over the top in pursuing that. Apology offered!
And I regret I haven't any notion re Peter Pump. Good luck!
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