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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
Al, now that we know where the device came from I think we're in a position to offer reasonable conjectures about the answers to your questions. If you look closely at the National Cigar Store ad you can make out the Comoy's on the pipe in the illustration. This tells us that Berriman's store...- jguss
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- Forum: British Pipes
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
I forgot to add the clincher: the business mentioned in the 1909 ad, National Cigar Store, was controlled by Berriman Brothers, the companied owned by Edward Charles Berriman and his brother Matthew W Berriman.- jguss
- Post #4,004
- Forum: British Pipes
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
Excellent work. I found another mention of the Perfeccion Pipe in an advertisement in the February 11, 1909 issue of the Chicago Tribune. With these clues and thanks entirely to the work of greeneyes and jaingorenard I was able to winnow the tens of thousands of tobacco pipe-related patents...- jguss
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- Forum: British Pipes
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
If someone really cares enough to devote time and energy to this conundrum greeneyes’ sleuthing has provided the key to what might provide more information. The publication digitized by Google (Western Power Boat Association: 1909) is held by the University of Wisconsin’s library (see...- jguss
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- Forum: British Pipes
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
Seems unlikely to me. Comoy’s (unlike Barling) weren’t really silversmiths and as far as I know limited themselves to bands. Of course better photos of the pipe might help settle this.- jguss
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- Forum: British Pipes
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
At last and thank God: something to keep me from soiling my gloves.- jguss
- Post #3,996
- Forum: British Pipes
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MKELAW's Online Store is Closed…
I wouldn’t assume any particular drama; everyone retires eventually. I swapped emails with Dave last week and he told me the “next phase will be more golf”. Sounds like a well thought out plan to me. -
Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
Can anyone read the morose (if not sullen) smudge purporting to be the date hallmark? That might actually help find the “device” employed on the pipe.- jguss
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- Forum: British Pipes
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
No clue as to the backstory; a patent number would be helpful. I think the case stamp says PERFECCION not PERFECTION, although the meaning is the same.- jguss
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- Forum: British Pipes
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
I've never been so grateful that almost 15 thousand kilometers separates me from New Zealand.- jguss
- Post #3,980
- Forum: British Pipes
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
Someone got a steal. I’m looking at this listing on my phone so I can’t see the hallmarks but assuming the 1920 reading is correct this would be one of the first Dugouts produced. The line was only introduced in October of that year. Despite being offered for decades Dugouts are thin on the...- jguss
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- Forum: British Pipes
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Custom Pipe Tampers: A Hidden Gift
Thanks a lot. I had to google Peyronie’s and now I’m desperately trying to unknow what I just read.- jguss
- Post #23
- Forum: Pipes Accessories
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Custom Pipe Tampers: A Hidden Gift
anotherbob and Kim have a thing? I don’t mean to be too judgy but one of them is making a terrible mistake.- jguss
- Post #19
- Forum: Pipes Accessories
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Las Vegas Intl Pipe Show 2024!
It’s a wonderful show and I attend every year but the cutoff date for the lower rate is September 1 not June.- jguss
- Post #24
- Forum: Pipe Events
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The Third Swan Neck of the "Drifted Shank" Set of Three (an Apple this time)
I can’t say enough good things about Jack as a musician, pipe carver, writer, and all-around great guy. I strongly recommend a deep dive into his many blog posts on an astounding variety of subjects. You will be by turns deeply absorbed, edified, and amused. What more could anyone ask?- jguss
- Post #12
- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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The Third Swan Neck of the "Drifted Shank" Set of Three (an Apple this time)
Me too, but mostly because it sounds like something a urologist would treat. Hopefully successfully.- jguss
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- Forum: Pipe Repair and Maintenance
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“L.R” Hallmark Help
By the way, the worthpoint listing refers to the seller’s pipe as a Pall Mall: If that’s actually stamped on the briar in the listing that would move Rothman as the source of the band on your pipe from reasonable surmise to certainty. Unfortunately as is generally the case the worthpoint... -
“L.R” Hallmark Help
I was so busy being a smartass I forgot to plunk my candidate down on the table. I think there's a decent chance it's Louis Rothman. Here, for once, I don't have to prepare a deep dive since Wikipedia has been kind enough to do it for me: Louis Rothman - Wikipedia -... -
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Pre-Lane Charatan Stem Question
This is quite true, and in America at least relatively unknown. I’ve read a great deal of 1920s testimony by UK industry leaders that used stem to refer to what we now generally call shank.- jguss
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- Forum: British Pipes