I bought a B. Barlings & Sons estate pipe (#4065) a couple of years ago, and I smoke it from time to time.
It easily passes a pipe cleaner, has a comfortable stem, incredible finish and as I looked more closely at it while I was out in the sunlight, I noticed some printing on the underside of the shank right near the edge that read: Made in Denmark.
I went to Pipedia and read (once again) the wonderful and exhaustive information there, supplied I believe, by member, Sablebrush, our noted Barling expert/collector.
It said that in the 70's Eric Nording made about 100k pipes for Barling, so I ASSUME, mine was made by Nording.
I paid about $30.00 for it, and I'm quite happy with it.
It easily passes a pipe cleaner, has a comfortable stem, incredible finish and as I looked more closely at it while I was out in the sunlight, I noticed some printing on the underside of the shank right near the edge that read: Made in Denmark.
I went to Pipedia and read (once again) the wonderful and exhaustive information there, supplied I believe, by member, Sablebrush, our noted Barling expert/collector.
It said that in the 70's Eric Nording made about 100k pipes for Barling, so I ASSUME, mine was made by Nording.
I paid about $30.00 for it, and I'm quite happy with it.