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Parker Pipe
If you enlarge, better to see. There are no patient # or dating numbers. Just 4 in a circle, Made in London, and #189., -
Parker 189 or a Dunhill 120 ??
Beautiful. A classic. Just look at that blast. I am guessing a beautiful smoker.- Ziggywm
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Parker Pipe
I love Edinburgh, been there many times. I'm always focused on scotch while there, however. My next visit, post-Covid, I will have to check out the Pipe Shop. Is that it's name? I have such wonderful memories of your city, especially the year before my wife passed away in 2017. -
Parker 189 or a Dunhill 120 ??
Wow!! The tanshell looks like a copy of mine. And your #120 - hard to see any difference. Beautiful pipes.- Ziggywm
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Parker 189 or a Dunhill 120 ??
With regard to long ago, the "curtain of history" is brutal - just can't say. However, you can see where the signature goes they couldn't get a clean imprint due to the sand pits. I can see them going in boxes to their second factories, especially when times were tough and briar harder to get...- Ziggywm
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Parker 189 or a Dunhill 120 ??
6 x 2 1/4. Also, the pipe is devoid of patient & any dating numbers. I should have asked the old Brit more questions. When you are young you're clueless. I just knew I loved the sweep. You know, Michaelangelo when he painted the Cisteen Chapel of God touching Adam, it forms an S shaped curve. He...- Ziggywm
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Parker Pipe
I just posted pictures of my Parker Golden Bark 189. Like you I am a SH fan and convinced Rathbone's pipe us a Parker and my Parker was going to be a 120 until it was graded a second. Interested to know what you know. Thanks. -
A Pair of Patent Parker Pilliards...
I just posted pictures on my Parker 189 Golden Bark. Take a look as I'm interested in anything you can share. Oh I love your billard.- Ziggywm
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- Forum: British Pipes
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Parker 189 or a Dunhill 120 ??
I have a "Parker Golden Bark" marked 4 in circle (a Dunhill size #) and a shape #189. I've owned it since 74 - purchased it second hand from a man who came into Diebel's Pipe Shop where I worked. I remember the man as an elderly Englishman, a very distinguish looking survivor of WW1 (I enjoyed...- Ziggywm
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QUESTIONS: GBD Genuine Matt 9487 - Stem w/o Insignia
You might check with some pipe shops that have been around for a long time and sold GBDs. They would probably sell or give you one and you can mount it yourself as I described above. Hell, just the hunt for an old logo can be fun - never know what you might turn up!!?- Ziggywm
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- Forum: British Pipes
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Can My Pipe Be Repaired / Salvaged?
I will try this again. Yes it can be repaired. I would level the shank coming off the bowl. Then I would turn a piece of brier wood to form a tenion to go in the shank and fit the bit tension on the other end. The new brier can then be stained. I have done many of these. It is more work than a...- Ziggywm
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- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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Can My Pipe Be Repaired / Salvaged?
Yes it can be repaired and if I were to do it I would level the shank end coming off the bowl- Ziggywm
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- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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QUESTIONS: GBD Genuine Matt 9487 - Stem w/o Insignia
My experience with GBD only dates from 1966. Before then I can't speak with authority on the use of the metal GBD logo. When I worked at the pipe shop Fred Diebel's in KC in the 70s (and GBD was a major line he sold) all carried the metal logo. We always carried a supply of these logos for stem...- Ziggywm
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- Forum: British Pipes
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New Year's Resolutions for Pipe Smokers & Collectors
I began smoking a pipe when I was 16, until my parents made me stop. My first job was working at a hardware store where Mr. Jones, the owner, smoked Diebel White Burley in GBD pipes. What a wonderful aroma. Not only did he introduce me to finer pipes, but to tobacco that surpassed anything the...- Ziggywm
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- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Castello & Dunhill
I know what you mean. When I was in college I looked forward to getting my annual Iwan Ries catalog. At best I could only look and dream. Like you I just couldn't understand why anyone would pay the kind of money for a Dunhill that they want. Charatan and Freehands I understood - eye catching... -
Castello & Dunhill
I have collected and smoked many quality pipes, (I worked in several pipe shops in the 70s) to include Dunhill and their second Parker, Charatan, Comoy, Astley, Freiburg & Treyer, GBD (both English and French made), Barling, and a number of Benchmades. I have a variety of Danish to including...