Question About The Older Ben Wade Freehands

fluffie666 · Jul 12, 2017

Question About The Older Ben Wade Freehands. They are my weekness. I stumbled upon a website based out of Denmark years ago that sells estate pipes. I figured, what better place to get what I'm looking for? On the site this week, I found some London made Ben Wades. What confused me is a London made Martinique. I always thought the Ben Wade Martinique was a Danish made freehand. Here is the page

Danish Estates

The Martinique is quite a few pipes down. Any thoughts on it? I have a Martinique and mine is stamped "Hand Made In Denmark".

fluffie666 · Jul 12, 2017

Sorry. It's a Ben Wade Hand Model London Made. I've seen a few of these all stamped from Denmark. Is there a timeline gap in the Ben Wade freehand story anyone can shed some light on?

lasttango · Jul 12, 2017

There really does seem to be some significant "gaps" in understanding the history of Ben Wade between the 1960's and 1990's. There are some years where people assume they were made side by side with Dunhills and Charatans... people's perception of quality during different eras is very stratified. I'd like to see a more definitive history somewhere... Surely the guy that owns it now must know it?

daveinlax · Jul 12, 2017

There are some years where people assume they were made side by side with Dunhills and Charatans...

I've heard that Ben Wades were made in the Preben Holm shop along with the Dunhill era Charatan's. 8O

snagstangl · Jul 12, 2017

https://pipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Wade
The Pipedia site seems to explains the reasons for the different country stampings pretty well.

fluffie666 · Jul 14, 2017

Thanks snag. I'll go through that again. A little more carefully this time.

4etecjonathan · Jul 14, 2017

Not worth the price of tea in China.
Jon :puffpipe:

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