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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
- kenbarnes
- Post #858
- Forum: British Pipes
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
Lovely piece. It looks like it will 'clean up' well.- kenbarnes
- Post #854
- Forum: British Pipes
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
Talking about Charatan Logos, this one is from my collection and is the only one I have ever seen (FC in a circle). I think this one is one from about 1908-09 - the final years of Frederick's reign! I have a couple of other Frederick Charatan era pieces with no logos. :)- kenbarnes
- Post #845
- Forum: British Pipes
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Charatan “Cup and Saucer” Pipe
- kenbarnes
- Post #5
- Forum: British Pipes
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Dicey Looking Tilshead Pipe, and I Wasn't Even Drunk When I Bought It!
I do not know what to say. First of all and for the record, this pipe was made after I sold my shares and left the company in 1989 as the 'stampings' are actually engraved which we did not do under my watch! Basically, Tilshead pipes were the pipes which we rejected having a James Upshall...- kenbarnes
- Post #14
- Forum: British Pipes
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Dating a Charatan Pipe
Here are the dimensions for the 140 from 1951. Reuben Charatan was known to be quite exact of the lengths of his catalogue shapes. Now I have seen the original box, I am fairly certain that this piece is from the late 1950s. I think Jon Guss may have some more info relating to when Charatan...- kenbarnes
- Post #12
- Forum: British Pipes
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Dating a Charatan Pipe
Hi mycroftholmes. what you could do is measure the overall length of the pipe and weigh it (preferably in cms and grams). That could be a useful start in trying to work out when it was made.- kenbarnes
- Post #7
- Forum: British Pipes
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Dunhill Stem Question
Yes, I have always understood that Dunhill made mouthpieces in Vulcanite Brindle since the 1930s but I am unsure when they started calling them Cumberland. I cannot recall when they first moved the Dunhill Pipe factory to Cumberland Road. I do know that the road was not named after the...- kenbarnes
- Post #8
- Forum: British Pipes
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Anyone Heard Of ‘Roya’?
It could be a line of pipes from a manufacturer - in this case, possibly Loewe & Co? It would be interesting to see all the hallmarks close up as this can sometimes tell the story.- kenbarnes
- Post #2
- Forum: British Pipes
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Bought My First Charatan Estate Pipe
This is a Charatan Salisbury shape in a group 3 (373). Judging from the depth etc of the sandblasting it looks like it is from around 1967. It does need some TLC and the mouthpiece would need replacing. The mouthpiece was a little longer than in the photo. This brochure came out in approximately...- kenbarnes
- Post #44
- Forum: British Pipes
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Bought My First Charatan Estate Pipe
I agree with georged, this has been done by the seller to 'spiff things up'. I am pretty sure you can remove it by possibly using a pin and picking out the paste from each letter - very therapeutic. I love the pipe - this is either a Barry creation or could be a Stan Haney (Charatan craftsman)...- kenbarnes
- Post #34
- Forum: British Pipes
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Bought My First Charatan Estate Pipe
No, I have never seen it. I think I tried it on one Tilshead once - cannot remember now. Are the 'stamps' engraved or stamped by hand (pressed into the wood)? I have seen some early French and English pipes from the 1920s which had the stamps filled in with white or gold wax I think Oppenheimer...- kenbarnes
- Post #28
- Forum: British Pipes
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Bought My First Charatan Estate Pipe
I bought a box a few years ago - the box looks the same! I will try the old and the new when I get the opportunity and report back to you.- kenbarnes
- Post #23
- Forum: British Pipes
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Bought My First Charatan Estate Pipe
kottan said "Ken, which kind of alcohol do you use for it, ethanol or isopropyl and how much %? I wonder if the alcohol would dissolve the stain?. " I still have some industrial alcohol here from the Tilshead factory (strictly speaking I do need a license for it) but I don't drink it! Yes, it...- kenbarnes
- Post #21
- Forum: British Pipes
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Bought My First Charatan Estate Pipe
Yes, nice piece with the original mouthpiece. You can remove the wax, I normally use alcohol to clean the outside of the bowl and mouthpiece. This can also help clean the stamping on the shank and make it crisper. I would then rub the Cp logo with a white Crayola wax crayon and wipe off the...- kenbarnes
- Post #16
- Forum: British Pipes
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Dunhill Needs Restoring
£4.10 postage was extra. I did want to buy it but forgot to bid at the end of the auction. The seller wrote "Needs restoring". I think the sectioned shank was carried out at Dunhill & the plugged bottom of the bowl too (On guarentee?) They stamped it again overlapping the join so it blended in...- kenbarnes
- Post #29
- Forum: British Pipes
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Dunhill Needs Restoring
I was fascinated by this one which eventually sold for £1.20 Photo no 3 shows that the bottom of the bowl had also burnt through so it was plugged with briar. Additionally, the shank has been re-sectioned too. Calling George D. can you do something with this pipe? :)- kenbarnes
- Post #2
- Forum: British Pipes
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Dunhill Needs Restoring
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
My father was in the middle of this and I am sure that it impacted on his health. The main supplier of briar to Charatan was Otto Braun and the quality of plateau briar coming from Greece (and other sawmills in Italy) at times was really questionable. Sometimes the areas where they were digging...- kenbarnes
- Post #783
- Forum: British Pipes