Can Sombody Help Identify This Pipe?

randelli

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Nov 21, 2015

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• Mar 16, 2016

• #1

This pipe caught my eye. I don't see a maker so I wondered if some of you more experienced guys could help identify it.

It is quite fetching!

 

dmcmtk

Lifer

Aug 23, 2013

3,672

1,685

• Mar 17, 2016

• #2

The font style of the shape number, 82, reminds me of the one used by Parker......

 

dmcmtk

Lifer

Aug 23, 2013

3,672

1,685

• Mar 17, 2016

• #3

Two relevant pages from the 1977 Parker catalog, note shape 82A in the second row in the first. The second talks about the Private Label Program.

For more see,
http://chriskeene.com/parkfront.htm
I'm going with Parker.

 

randelli

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Nov 21, 2015

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• Mar 17, 2016

• #4

Looks like Parker may be correct. Parker is a Dunhill second? I read a few articles that suggest that is the case.
In those articles they say that the Parker number is to the right of the made in london stamp - this one is on the left. Also, I read that the Parkers had acrylic stems - this one is definitely vulcanite.
Is this possibly a Dunhill with a replacement stem? The store thinks it is an unmarked Dunhill. Do those exsist!

 

dmcmtk

Lifer

Aug 23, 2013

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1,685

• Mar 17, 2016

• #5

The story about Parker is well covered in the pipedia article,
https://pipedia.org/wiki/Parker
Left/Right, the first thing about British pipe markings is the modifiers "usually" or "mostly" or even "almost always" because inevitably exceptions are found. Older Parkers had vulcanite stems.
A Dunhill, I would say no. Made by Parker from what I'm seeing.

 

xrundog

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Oct 23, 2014

737

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Ames, IA

• Mar 17, 2016

• #6

Like a Parker second you mean? Because a Parker should have a Parker stamp. Stem bit doesn't look like an older Parker. English yes. But it could be made by almost any company.

 

dmcmtk

Lifer

Aug 23, 2013

3,672

1,685

• Mar 17, 2016

• #7

Like a Parker second you mean? Because a Parker should have a Parker stamp.

Click to expand...

Like a Parker private label...

 

randelli

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Nov 21, 2015

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5

• Mar 17, 2016

• #8

Well in any case, Parker/Private Label/Second, is it a fair price?

 

jpmcwjr

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May 12, 2015

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27,330

Carmel Valley, CA

• Mar 17, 2016

• #9

As a complete non-expert in Parker pipes (though I have a couple), the price seems a bit rich.

 

doctorbob

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Mar 18, 2014

772

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Grand Ledge, Michigan

• Mar 17, 2016

• #10

The Parker catalog from the 50's on the Chris Keene site that talks about private label pipes, much earlier than the "one and a half years" stated in the 77 catalog. I have what is almost certainly a Parker private label with a quality, hand cut vulcanite stem, so they are out there. My pipe takes a Dunhill inner tube, is not a Dunhill, and is an extraordinary smoke.
The price does seem a wee bit optimistic, to say the least.
Doc

 

randelli

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Nov 21, 2015

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• Mar 17, 2016

• #11

What would be a fair offer?

 

tarheel1

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Oct 16, 2014

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• Mar 17, 2016

• #12

In my opinion as there is no name on the pipe no more than 50.00. I guess it depends on what it is worth to you.

 

doctorbob

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Mar 18, 2014

772

1,158

Grand Ledge, Michigan

• Mar 18, 2016

• #13

A private label pipe should have a tobacconist stamp on it, this one doesn't. I would treat it as a nice used basket pipe, and offer accordingly. I wish you luck.
If they are trying to pass it off as a Dunhill of some sort, they are delusional IMHO.
Doc