Dates From Pipe History

mso489

Lifer

Feb 21, 2013

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60,459

• Mar 31, 2019

• #1

I realized I have several items with significant pipe dates from history on them, so I thought I'd pass them along and invite you to add others to the thread. Mine are all from the Nineteenth Century also known as the eighteen hundreds. I have a t-shirt that is emblazoned Savinelli 1876, the pipe company not the t-shirt itself. I have a trucker's cap embroidered Missouri Meerschaum The Original Corn Cob Pipes, Est. 1869. And finally, the Iwan Ries & Co. paper catalog that boasts on the cover, Tobacconists Since 1857. The earliest tobacco date I know of other than Sir Walter Raleigh himself (1552? -1618) is the Lakeland blend 1792. What other dates do you know going well back in history?

 

papipeguy

Lifer

Jul 31, 2010

15,778

35

Bethlehem, Pa.

• Mar 31, 2019

• #2

July 1, 1970 ( or there abouts). The day I smoked my first pipe.

 

Chasing Embers

Captain of the Black Frigate

Nov 12, 2014

43,449

109,371

• Mar 31, 2019

• #3

1876 is when Achille Savinelli first opened his tobacco shop. Pipe production didn't start for another few years.

 

ashdigger

Lifer

Jul 30, 2016

11,383

70,079

60

Vegas Baby!!!

• Mar 31, 2019

• #4

September 13, 2011, the day I started to smoke a pipe. That's also the day my checking account started to talk back to me.

 

autumnfog

Lifer

Jul 22, 2018

1,151

2,495

Sweden

• Mar 31, 2019

• #5

In 1917 Alfred Dunhill invented the sandblasted pipe.

 

xingpao

Starting to Get Obsessed

Mar 11, 2019

119

89

• Mar 31, 2019

• #6

Or did Barling really invent the sandblast?

 

sablebrush52

The Bard Of Barlings

Jun 15, 2013

19,773

45,360

Southern Oregon

jrs457.wixsite.com

• Apr 1, 2019

• #7

Or did Barling really invent the sandblast?

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Well, that's the tantalizing question. Barling listed a "Niblick" in a 1917 catalog, and the Niblick I own and the other Niblick I recently saw on eBay are both sandblasts. We don't know if the 1917 Niblick was a sandblast. We also don't know who was doing sandblasting earlier. Dunhill took the credit and patented the process. But a number of collectors I've spoken with other the years claim that what Dunhill did amounted to theft.
1812 - The year Barling claims it was founded. Jon Gus thinks it was 1815, based on research that he did. Either way, they were around a hell of a lot earlier than the other major British marques.

 

georged

Lifer

Mar 7, 2013

5,542

14,276

• Apr 1, 2019

• #8

Jon Guss and Jesse Silver are paid agents of the Barling Aggrandizement Society, and should never be believed regarding much of anything pipe related.
The end.
The only true Pipe Innovators of modern times are Joel Sasieni and His Majesty Sir Alfred Dunhill Esq. MBA CPA CMA PhD ChB BAQ MD FRCP ABCDEFG
Accept no substitutes.
Besides, Jon comes from the land of Tony Soprano (yo!), and Jesse is based in BDB California where Governor Moonbeam is in charge and Charles Manson did his thing... (i.e. everyone's crazy there)

 

danish

Starting to Get Obsessed

Jun 12, 2017

245

490

Denmark

• Apr 1, 2019

• #9

Est. 1750 Tobacco factory Chr. Augustinus Fabrikker A/S link here

Owner of STG.

 

bassbug

Lifer

Dec 29, 2016

1,112

906

• Apr 1, 2019

• #10

April 1, 2019....I'm still a pipe smoker and spring is here, which means I can sit in the park or on my balcony and smoke without freezing my $#*@! off.

 

pappymac

Lifer

Feb 26, 2015

3,305

4,360

• Apr 1, 2019

• #11

April 1, 1819 - The day Freidrich and Henirich Kapp were born in the tiny village of Plumpsen Upper Bavaria. The brothers moved to Ireland in 1862 and opened their pipe shop.

 

condorlover1

Lifer

Dec 22, 2013

8,066

27,362

New York

• Apr 1, 2019

• #12

April 1st 1980 the day the Condorlover1 discovered Condor Plug as part of a failed drug deal! :rofl:

 

JimInks

Sultan of Smoke

Aug 31, 2012

61,270

563,796

• Apr 1, 2019

• #13

2500 BC. Sablebrush had a smoke with his younger brother Methuselah.

 

mso489

Lifer

Feb 21, 2013

41,210

60,459

• Apr 1, 2019

• #14

...and he still owns the pipe!

 

jguss

Lifer

Jul 7, 2013

2,477

6,454

• Apr 1, 2019

• #15

Jon Guss and Jesse Silver are paid agents of the Barling Aggrandizement Society

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Goddammit, Jesse told me this was a volunteer gig. If he's getting paid and I'm not I'm getting royally screwed. George, Jesse wouldn't do that to me, would he?

The only true Pipe Innovators of modern times are Joel Sasieni and His Majesty Sir Alfred Dunhill Esq. MBA CPA CMA PhD ChB BAQ MD FRCP ABCDEFG

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Oh yeah? What about the guy who innovated this???

Jon comes from the land of Tony Soprano

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In the first place I was born in Ohio, moved to Philadelphia, was raised in Tacoma, spent years in Portland, Chicago, New York and Tennessee before I wound up in New Jersey. I do not hale from the Garden State. Second, I have been here long enough to learn that there's always room in the Meadowlands for one more smartass.

 

condorlover1

Lifer

Dec 22, 2013

8,066

27,362

New York

• Apr 1, 2019

• #16

A true collectors piece. I believe they were given away free with each 1 lb container of Captain Monochromatic Grape. People who purchased the Bazooka Joe flavored stuff in 5 lb tubs got the Krusty the Clown version!

 

jpmcwjr

Moderator

Staff member

May 12, 2015

24,739

27,336

Carmel Valley, CA

• Apr 1, 2019

• #17

I've got a feeling that some of the above guys knows some guys who knows a guy.... best be civil!

 

georged

Lifer

Mar 7, 2013

5,542

14,276

• Apr 1, 2019

• #18

I've got a feeling that some of the above guys knows some guys who knows a guy...

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100% true: There's a regular poster on this board who is a top rank security chief/specialist for world-class banks in NYC.
Let that sink innaminnit...
I'm pretty sure I'd rather have the Mob after me than someone whose job it is to kick THEIR asses on a daily basis, and has done so successfully for years. 8O