There have been many from 1950 but being a child of post WW II, of which there were many, lots of competition or did not meet my requirements, i.e. condition, condition and did I mention condition?
I've seen a bunch of 1953's but cannot recall seeing one from 1952, the closest I had come up to now was 1948 and that's my Dead Root DRR C-EE group 3 but this Shell is not only my birth year it's my favorite size a group 2. I have a group 1 from 1917 which was the year my mother was born so I pretty much had a family member birth year pipe until now.
The 1948 DRR C-EE