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toby67

toby67

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Hello, I have an old pipe with an underlined V on the plastic stem, on the wooden part of the stem is what appears to be Damman Melbourne and the other side is numbered 1199.
Could someone please help me identify the origin and age of this pipe please.
Thank you in advance.

 
lordnoble

lordnoble

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At first blush, I'd guess it's a pipe made either at or for the Damman Tobacco store In Melbourne, Austrailia. The only thing I could turn up on a brief search on the store was this:

Cat-a-corner (as the Americans say) to the Town Hall - i.e. opposite The Queen Victoria Building on one side and Manchester Unity on the other - was Damman's Tobacco Store, which had a lot of atmosphere.
You can see it in the postcards in Post #3 and Post #4.
Click to expand...

As it seems you're from the area, perhaps the pics from the website quoted above might be of interest to you. Pics can be found HERE.
Hope this helps!
-Jason

 
huntertrw

huntertrw

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Jul 23, 2014
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toby67:
Below please find a link to "The Australian Tobacco Timeline" in the .pdf format. You will see that it appears that the Damman brothers' tobacconist business was established in Swanston Street in Melbourne in 1858. Your local library should be able to provide additional information concerning this business.
I hope that you find this background information to be useful.
The Austraian Tobacco Timeline

 
toby67

toby67

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Obviously a well used pipe and their is a small hairline crack where it joins to the stem on the side that says "THE VISCOUNT - MADE IN LONDON" not sure if the 1122 is a patent number or a serial number...
However is smokes very smoothly and is a small to medium bowl.

 
ssjones

ssjones

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I'm with Trail on banding before any more use.
I couldn't find anything about "The Viscount" pipes. Parker made a pipe that has "Viscount" in the nomenclature, but it is completely different. That number doesn't correspond to anything in the Dunhill line that I could find, sorry!

 
toby67

toby67

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Searching Google and was getting nowhere then suddenly came across this newspaper article about the DAMMAN BROTHERS. Makes for some interesting reading for the Australian Tobacco history.


 
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