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  1. L

    COMOY SPECIMEN 1962 / Horry Jamieson

    I'm hoping you can help me with dating Comoy's pipes: I have three Comoy's myself...one, an oversized, gold banded Tradition is stamped with the 1933 Chicago World's Fair imprint. The other two, a Specimen Straight Grain #342, and a London Pride #129 Extraordinaire stamped with the Arthur...
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    CHARATAN SUPREME S 1958

    How did you arrive at the 1958 date?
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    DUNHILL 1925 MAGNUM

    What's with the brass/gold triangle logo on the stem? No white dot?
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    THE RED BARON

    Agreed; looks more like the Sasieni Rustic to me too. And I'm wondering why either the French or English would produce a commemorative pipe for Richthofen (d. 1918), their deadly foe?
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    Help Dating a Charatan’s Make Authentic 10990

    I would not say never; there may be times when the pipe requires a tapered stem, i.e. a Canadian shape, or, in the case of a pipe I own, one that needs a very short stem (a Lane-stamped Executive freehand, deeply bent with long stank, and a one-inch stem...not "room" for a DC or saddle stem. I...
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    Help Dating a Charatan’s Make Authentic 10990

    Being a Canadian shape (by definition a tapered stem) it would never have a DC or X (indicating a saddle stem). Don't know about the 5-digit shape number; my guess would be that it is a late Lane era (1980s) pipe. Not a Reuben.
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    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    If you go to the Pipedia article you'll see, about halfway down, a blue-highlighted link to Derek Green's monograph A HISTORY OF COMOY AND GUIDE TO DATING THE PIPES; click on it and you'll find a listing of most, if not all, of the grades Comoy made...not in order of stature, unfortunately. You...
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    Charatan Achievement Grade! Photo update!

    Re: ICCC. Check out radio show #666 with their president Bobby Eichorn...should be some contact information found therein.
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    Charatan Achievement grade: Unsmoked!

    The only thing I might add is to comment on the shank/stem treatment, it being the same as the Charatan Crown model, which I believe was a mid-'70s introduction. Whereas the After Hours featured an abbreviated shank with a yellow synthetic extension the Crown model had a black lucite extension...
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    Show Off Your Charatans Here!

    1980 was the first time I went to the RTDA show, and I'm embarrassed to admit that I bought one of these for the shop I represented. It never did sell in the years that I worked there.
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    Show Off Your Charatans Here!

    In 1980 Charatan made available at the RTDA show a number of (ugly) carved head pipes that sort of resembled "apple-dollies". These came in a hinged, brown (if I remember right) presentation box with a card identifying the carver and, possibly, the "name" of the figure ("Cavalier" etc). They...
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    RIP Mark Volman (Flo & Eddie)

    Saw him when they were with Frank Zappa (The Depot, now First Avenue, Mpls.) in 1971, doing things like making a two-man pyramid, juggling one ball between the two, etc. Flying Burrito Brothers were the warm up band. Somehow I've never been able to get my hands on the live "71 CD which would be...
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    A non collector’s search for birth year Dunhill

    OK, add this to your data: Dunhill 836 Shell dated '56, with something below the date that looks like 866 as best as I can tell through my magnifying glass. Dunhill #593 Shell dated '56, plus 7, plus 8 Dunhill LB Shell dated 1957 Dunhill 836 Tanshell dated 1958 Dunhill 837 Shell dated...
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    142-Year-Old Pipe Tobacco Shop on Harvard Square

    OK, that should be "Purdey"; seems I can't type a post without a misspelling or omitted word!
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    142-Year-Old Pipe Tobacco Shop on Harvard Square

    huntertrw; I was interested to read that you were a friend of Gene Hill...I have a couple of his slim volumes (collections of his PARTING SHOTS columns) that I dip into occasionally. I have read that his favorite pipes were Charatans ("the Purdy of pipes", I recall him calling them), and that...
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