Help dating a Kaywoodie
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It's for sure later than 1937. That looks like a 4 hole stinger. Can't really make out the nomenclature.
Thanks ash and sable. I once heard that when SuperGrain is written above the KAYWOODIE, it means that it's an early production (although I'm not sure what "early" exactly indicates). Does that not apply to this piece? Also, while I bought this to smoke it thoroughly, I'm still curious if it has any collectible value. Still lamenting over my reckless bid...
An unsmoked Kaywoodie from the 1940's with its original box and papers would get a lot more than $30 to $40 bucks. I've seen some of the rarer ones, like a Mandarin, go into the mid three figures.
I've over and under paid for pipes, rifles, bikes, food, just about everything......
If it brings you the enjoyment and use you hoped for, then you did fine.
It's a nice looker. Hopefully, its performance is equally impressive.
If it brings you the enjoyment and use you hoped for, then you did fine.
It's a nice looker. Hopefully, its performance is equally impressive.
Here's a close up of the nomenclature. Maybe someone with more knowledge than I can help refine the dating:
Most of my older / vintage pipes with stingers still have them and smoke fine. There are a few, only a couple, with removable stingers that smoke much better without and I do remove them to smoke.
That pipes a real beauty, I can see the attraction to it :clap:
Kay gave me a woodie*, but that was long ago in a different state and State. We dated for just a week or two.
* One of those classic Fords with wood panelling on the exterior.
* One of those classic Fords with wood panelling on the exterior.
33 was a large apple between 1933 and 1972. This doesn't have the 4 digit shape, so that places it after 1939 or so. The smaller size stinger with only "Drinkless" and no numbers puts it around WWII, but old stingers were used for awhile. So without consulting Bill, I'd guess this is a late forties or early fifties.
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