I have the booklet at home (I'm at work right now) but I'm going to posit that your pipe is from 1980 with that photo capturing an underlined 20. Do you see "HT" stamped anywhere on the pipe? This indicates "hand turned" as opposed to it being subjected to a fraize machine that's merely copied...
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I am looking everywhere for an issue of the Pipes and Tobaccos Magazine. Specifically, Volume 5 Number 2 Summer 2000.
If anyone knows where I may...
I had about ten mins to snoop through the store while my wife was busy with errands.
I saw the following items of passive interest. The first were a set of dolls from Germany. I know nothing about them, other than that the fellow is enjoying a fine pipe!
Secondly, a couple of empty tins of...
From a 1971 pamphlet with a price list (found on ASP), we have the hierarchy of the grades:|
1) Speciman $50
2) Riband $40
3) London Pride $35
4 )Deluxe Walnut Silver mtd. $27.50
5) Deluxe Sandblast """" $25
6) Tradition $25
7) Golden Grain $$25
8) Grand Slam $25
9) Pebble Grain $20
10)...
Yeah, I miss being able to see who was bidding on what. You were able to more easily find out if you were looking at (a) only a couple 'a nights on the couch, (b) a weeks' worth of silent treatment and staying at your in-law's, or (c) fluffing up your pillows at a buddy's place for an extended...
Here is the link from Worthpoint. It’s beyond 90 days so the link on eBay doesn’t work. I’ll screen shot what I can from my end if that’s what you’re looking for? This pipe is an “E”.
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/james-upshall-grade-straight-grain-3872182407
I purchased this pipe...
I hear ya about the pricing. One of them which I just posted was super-astronomical in price, but when my wife saw ‘the bill’ it was only three months that I grabbed my meals and slept down at the Mission…..(kidding).
Does this one count? That hunk of driftwood has propped up a number of pipes in my collection as well. I’m glad to see I’m not the only one funding Todd’s pension plan!
JAMES UPSHALL RARE "E" GRADE STRAIGHT GRAIN PLATEAU FREEHAND ESTATE PIPE
I wonder if the fellow who owned those two pipes up above EVER considered that they would not only still be around, but that someone would be smoking and enjoying them 112 years later? I wonder which pipes of mine will stand the test of time?