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The American tobacco journals were very segar heavy, but still contain many items of interest.
This issue in particular has a good bit of info:

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Googlebooks has quite a few huge compilations of this publication and you can find some neat stuff,

link to this specific copy (must scroll down):

http://books.google.com/books?id=jJRDAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
The cool thing is that you can cut 'n paste clips to share, but the text portion is very small and won't save the zoomed version,

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I like this because it indicates that Comoy had been sandblasting at least by 1922, which is quite early!
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Also mentioned is the fact that BBB opened a factory here in NY during WW1 in 1914:

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A couple more ads,
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It's definitely worth the time scrolling through these old journals.
The older issues had cartoons like this one,

a statesman who had proposed an increased tax on briarroot tasting the alternative (laurel wood)...
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The BBB ad says that the pipes were manufactured from "selected French bowls", which suggests that it was a mounting and finishing facility.
Exactly right.
The short article mentions this also:
"Until the outbreak of the World War in 1914, all of these pipes were made in the London factory, but during the war a factory was established in America to assemble and fit BBB silver mounted pipes, and the plain dark-finished pipes, a new brand then, called the BBB Umbria.
This American factory, in College Point, Long Island, is a venture which so well proved its worth that it has come to be regarded as one of the permanent establishments of the Industry in the U.S.A."

 

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Lifer
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Fascinating stuff, mlc. Never knew there was an American BBB factory, but that explains this:
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http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-1923-DARTMOUTH-COLLEGE-STERLING-INLAY-BBB-SMOKING-PIPE-/351194924504?

 
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I love the swirling birdseye on that Dartmouth pipe, I reckon at some point they actually did shape stummels instead of just fitting and finishing - that pipe seems to indicate so.
The "white man" bit, excruciatingly bad copy now looking back!

Just curious,

what time period is considered to be the height of the British Empire?
That top link is gold! Thanks for posting it.
There's plenty more over there!

I do hope people browse them and clip interesting bits to share!
1908

http://books.google.com/books?id=5XpBAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
1908

http://books.google.com/books?id=1IBBAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
1909

http://books.google.com/books?id=W4NBAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
1910

http://books.google.com/books?id=RIJBAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
1911

http://books.google.com/books?id=zmxBAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
1912

http://books.google.com/books?id=Hm9BAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
1914

http://books.google.com/books?id=qJdBAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
1914

http://books.google.com/books?id=G5JBAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
1915

http://books.google.com/books?id=UJRBAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
1916

http://books.google.com/books?id=wHxBAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
1918

http://books.google.com/books?id=w31BAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
1919

http://books.google.com/books?id=QZNDAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
1919

http://books.google.com/books?id=84lBAQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

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Lifer
May 25, 2012
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Interesting that BBB (Adolph Frankau) claims to have made pipes since the discovery of "French briar" sometime around 1847-49.

 

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Lifer
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Just curious,

what time period is considered to be the height of the British Empire?
The sun never set upon the British Empire. Why, you may ask?
"The reason the sun never set upon the Empire was that God did not trust the British in the dark." -- Rev. W. B. Brown, 1865

 

dottiewarden

Lifer
Mar 25, 2014
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As I sat smoking my pipe in the park the other day, a youngster past by and looked at me inquisitively, then suddenly blurted out, "those things still exist?"
It's threads like this one that make me feel part of the continuum of a long and rich tradition. We are the living history of pipe smoking, and if we can keep the tradition alive, in another hundred years new generations can look back on how the pipe smoking culture had grown to become a Golden Age in its own right, during our times.
Keep the tradition, light up your pipe!

 
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The 1947 centenary booklet claims that the House of Frankau was established in 1847.
BBB is regd. trade mark no. 40
Here is an obituary for Louis Blumfeld where it says that the three B's stood for himself and his 2 sons.
(I still can't figure out how to save zoomed text, and this was really small, but they do have a transcription, although not perfect, here it is)
ORIGINATOR of BBB

Louis Blumfield of Adolph Frankau & Co Died Recently in England in His 88th Year​

Louis Blumfeld, originator of the world renowned BBB trade mark died recently in England in his eightysecond year. The famous trade mark through the activities of the parent house of Adolph Frankau & Co Ltd London England is known in every corner of the country on this side of the Atlantic. The following obituary notice is reprinted from the English journal, Tobacco:
Widespread regret will be evoked by the announcement of the death of Louis Blumfeld of the firm of Adolph Frankau & Co Ltd merchants of 119 Queen Victoria street London EC.
Mr Blumfeld who was born in 1838 entered the counting house of Adolph Frankau at fourteen years of age and exhibiting an unusually keen business aptitude soon attained a responsible position. It is a point of interest that Mr Frankau was a citizen of the United States of America and had commenced in London in 1848, a date when briar tobacco pipes were quite unknown.
In 1856 Mr Adolph Frankau died and left the business to his widow who seriously considered the desirability of closing down altogether and probably would have carried through her intention but for the assurance given by young Blumfeld with only four years experience that he was prepared to undertake the control, Mrs Frankau having great confidence in his tact and energy, placed him in the responsible position of manager and in the early sixties she took him into partnership retaining this profitable business association until 1887 when she retired.
In the latter year Mr Blumfeld took into partnership his eldest son James L Blumfeld, H Hinricks and Walter Allen.
Mr Hinricks still retains a position on the board but Mr Allen (who had been for many years a traveller for the firm) severed his connection with the company some time later, established a busines on his own account in Manchester and died two years ago.
In the commencement of 1899 the firm of Adolph Frankau & Co was converted into a limited liability company. Mr Louis Blumfeld became chairman and director, and the managing directors were Mr Blumfeld, Mr Hinricks and S Blumfeld. The other director was FJ Frankau barrister (a son of the later Adolph Frankau who is now the chairman of the company), James L Blumfeld, and S Blumfeld still remain in the positions above indicated.
Louis Blumfeld owing to advancing years retired from the chairmanship in 1917 and twelve months later he relinquished his position on the directorate. Therefore during the last two years he ceased to take any active share in the business . For some time before his death advancing age had enfeebled his physical condition. At length he became afflicted with bladder trouble and acting under medical advice underwent an operation. This apparently was successful but shortly afterwards he collapsed and the end was then not far off. After a lengthy and busy life in which he had made troops of warm friends, he met with peaceful death.
An interesting feature of his career was that he was the founder of the BBB trade mark for tobacco pipes. This was as far back as 1869 and according to an utterance by one of his friends it was the great joy of his life that he made the BBB pipe world renowned. This pipe was registered in 1875 when the TradeMarks Registration Act came into force.
In the year 1875 when Hempstead was remarkable for its sylvan glades and elysian fields the late Mr Blumfeld had a house erected in Prince Arthur road and occupied it until his death. Three days after he had passed away his remains were cremated at Golders Green Crematorium. In private life his great hobby was water colors of which he possessed a large and valuable collection and as an amateur water color painter he attained quite a good reputation.
Mr Blumfeld was the doyen of the pipe branch of the tobacco trade. Business interests made him a frequent traveler. It was not uncommon for travel from London to Vienna and back half a dozen times a year and personally he maintained his Austrian connection for over sixty years. In the words of a gentleman who knew him well there was no better known man on the cross Channel boats and on the railway from London to Vienna.
The late Mr Blumfeld married in 1864 (his wife died in 1907), and leaves eight children - three sons and five daughters to mourn not only an indulgent father but a good companion. It only remains to state that his attitude towards his subordinates was invariably kind and considerate and that in losing him they feel that they have been deprived of a personal friend.
Some years ago when a representative asked the late Mr Blumfeld what was the origin of the trademark BBB ,he replied that the three letters represented himself and his two sons.
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Lifer
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Great stuff mlc. I have a totally new appreciation for my BBBs, now. So, it wasn't, according to this, "Britain's Best Briar," "Best British Briar," or even (as I thought) "Blumfeld's Best Briar," but "Blumfeld, Blumfeld and Blumfeld." Amazing.
And apparently they made silver spoons as well:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/ANTIQUE-LOUIS-BLUMFELD-ADOLPH-FRANKAU-ELECTRO-PLATE-SPOON-BBB-PIPE-ACCESSORY-/251437106026?

 
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This was a very popular USA baccy for quite a good while, around 70 years or so,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bigger_Hair

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Favorite quotes dept:
"...practically no one smoked cigarettes except a few very Frenchified people."
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http://books.google.com/books?id=gbA9AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
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The Making of a Pipe

1899

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Good write up of J&F Bell circa 1888,

no mention of Three Nuns is made...

Wyman's commercial encyclopædia of leading manufacturers of Great Britain
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