Just picked up a nice more recent #127 Comoy's Tradition billiard for a song. After a bit of clean up, I think it looks grand. Almost stately. It's the first Comoy with a painted on / lasered C stem logo that I've owned. (All my other Comoys are pre-merger with the three part C stem inlay - hence, well seasoned vintage Comoys). This one I just got is a more modern post-merger specimen. It still has the Made in London in a circle, over the straight England, so its not the recent Made in Italy Comoy. I would date it to the 90s or thereabouts. The reason I snagged it was because of the grain, plus I have older #127s that I really enjoy. They're big group 5 /6 billiards. Took a while to clean the shank. Thank goodness for nylon brushes and isopropanol. The inner rim needed sanding too. And the outside of the pipe needed a good alcohol rub down to clean it. Re-waxed with carnuba and it was good to go. Breaking it in now with some Rattray's Black Mallory. A great smoker so far.
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