What do you think? It looks a bit suspect (read "fake") to me. If anybody has info on it please share. It's marked as a BBB neplusultra (isn't it supposed to be ne plus ultra?)
This Looks Suspect to Me
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What really gets me is that BBB, as far as I am aware, made only briar or calabash pipes. Unless I'm being unusually dumb, that doesn't look like briar to me.
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That ain't briar! Appears to be pear wood or poss. olive wood, I would definitely assume some kind of knock-off.
That is a possibility. From its other pic, it's been well smoked too but taken care of so who knows. I did a little more digging and it seems that Frankau was the main importer of cherry wood pipe stock into Britain early on (this doesn't look like cherry to me) so they might have dabbled in olive also. I'm still inclined to think from the material and the stamping that it is not genuine but that's just an opinion.
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