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  1. kenbarnes

    1917 Dunhill Inner Tube 39 Restoration [pic heavy]

    What a beautiful restoration. Painstaking, loving, passionate, exciting and satisfying is what I see here.
  2. kenbarnes

    Unsmoked Sasieni Four Dot Natural Available

    Cumberland is an ancient county in the most North west of England and bordering on Scotland. The county is now called Cumbria although many English people still call it Cumberland.
  3. kenbarnes

    BBB meets Barling at the fit in 1887

    Oh brilliant, I never knew that they had that relationship. I learn every day. I suppose it's a bit like Upshall having silver bands mounted by Les Wood (some one hundred years later!).
  4. kenbarnes

    BBB meets Barling at the fit in 1887

    Has anyone else seen this interesting combination? I don't know how to upload ebay shots but here is the link: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BBB-Hall-Marked-1887-Silver-Mounted-Briar-Pipe-Amber-Mouthpiece-/292049241337?hash=item43ff7dc4f9:g:lNoAAOSwTuJYv-GK
  5. kenbarnes

    Meat For the Duke Street Irregulars

    interestingly, I did acquire another sample tin last year with some wax still in it. It was not as red as this one, it was more of a honey colour which leads me to believe that there may have been two types, one for Bruyere and one for root-finished pipes.
  6. kenbarnes

    Meat For the Duke Street Irregulars

    The rarest thing about this tin of wax was that it was a free sample. Alfred Dunhill was certainly not renowned for giving anything away free of charge.
  7. kenbarnes

    Meat For the Duke Street Irregulars

    After having read information concerning tubes, I am now wondering whether I was correct with dating a packet containing one unused tube I sold on ebay last week. I am now realising how complicated this dating can be for my aging brain. I think the photos I took are too big to upload here but...
  8. kenbarnes

    "1930's Old Tobacco Pipe...

    klause, well done 1893 it is! I have often wondered who the silversmith W.S was, does anyone know?
  9. kenbarnes

    A Special Pipe

    Yes, nice one didache. This pipe looks very 'Charatan handmade 1970s' to me. It is certainly a lovely looking pipe.
  10. kenbarnes

    Charatan Selected 99

    Wow! This has got to be my most favourite pipe of the year so far. Originally, I think that this piece came in a case and therefore has been preserved so well. What a beauty. In the 1950s Reuben Charatan was specialising in making straight grain 'Orthodox' shapes in straight grain and...
  11. kenbarnes

    Hardcastle erotica

    flaneuse I think that this one is an extreme and if it is as old as it looks, it would be worth a lot of money although the mouthpiece could be a replacement. Victorian era carved meerschaums with even a breast revealed was considered very risqué at the time and seem to command really high...
  12. kenbarnes

    Hardcastle erotica

    I suppose that it could be the view you get when you are smoking it
  13. kenbarnes

    Hardcastle erotica

    I acquired this unusual Hardcastle the other day. I would welcome any comments or information
  14. kenbarnes

    Larrysson Rhodesian- Pictures

    Great pipe - great pipe-maker.
  15. kenbarnes

    What English Makers Used a Dark Red/ Purple Stain

    I just remembered that we used to make an orange S grade finish when I worked at James Upshall in the 1980s. I must have loved that finish in those days as well!!!
  16. kenbarnes

    What English Makers Used a Dark Red/ Purple Stain

    I really like the After Hours series. It is made from a material called Catalin. My favourite grade at the moment is a very full grained (straight grain) in a Distinction finish.
  17. kenbarnes

    What English Makers Used a Dark Red/ Purple Stain

    Perfection was a walnut type stain with a walnut background stain I think. The 'intensity of any finish was the amount of background stain and stripping that of and how many top coat stains are applied etc. The four main stains that charatan used was dark green for the 'black' background...
  18. kenbarnes

    What English Makers Used a Dark Red/ Purple Stain

    Charatan's Belvedere was a spirit stain green background stain, first coat burnt in, second one left on and a 'Post office red' top coat. Roughly the same for the James Upshall 'S' red finish.
  19. kenbarnes

    Can anyone date this Ye Olde Wood?

    [img] I saw this 3-pipe Barling case. I like it! I am starting to restore some antique/vintage pipe cases, which I find very therapeutic
  20. kenbarnes

    Can anyone date this Ye Olde Wood?

    When at Upshall I had one twin set made which is on the back page of that early brochure (1982). We also had only one seven day set made by Aspreys of New Bond Street London (by the craftsman there Mr Cahoots, a good friend of Paul Bentley from Astleys))and the silk lining had Aspreys by royal...
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