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  1. achtman

    1800’s

    Yes the receptacle (cap) at the bottom is to capture fluid. A cavalier is drilled straight into the bowl with a second angled borehole down to the receptacle.
  2. achtman

    1800’s

    Can you post a picture please? Until now the only ones I know are the Comoy’s shape and a Sommer, Paris Oom Poul I have. Recently an early BBB Oom Poul was sold on eBay which looked totally different again. Mark
  3. achtman

    1800’s

    For me it is not the history per se, but rather the style. Here is a selection of old BBBs from the beginning of the 20th century. Each is different, and all differ from any modern pipe I have ever seen. 1900 Cavalier with horn stem, bone tenon and horn receptacle at the bottom. Poker with...
  4. achtman

    1800’s

    1911 Barling’s spigot,
  5. achtman

    1800’s

    A bunch of BBBs from about 1914 to 1950s
  6. achtman

    1800’s

    1907 Oppenheimer unsmoked Calabash
  7. achtman

    1800’s

    1851 Benjamin Barling probably restored with a new stem about 1900
  8. achtman

    Former Cig Smokers and Pipes

    I became addicted to cigarettes 60 years ago, when I was 15, and was a chain smoker for most of the time since then. At the age of 27, I tried to stop and switched to a pipe. I smoked pipes only for 6 months and enjoyed it. But one cigarette and I was hooked again. I fought against it for 4 1/2...
  9. achtman

    Show Off Your Barlings Here

    Here is one more Barling motor cap. But it is on a Peterson Patent from 1903. There are no hallmarks on the motor cap but it does have the E.B. And W.B. Stamp. Jesse has pointed out to me that the motor cap was first made in 1906. so either the Pete was sold later, which did happen, or the cap...
  10. achtman

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Hi Jesse This has the same RE number as the 1906 Barling shown in the Pipedia Barling page. If it has British hallmarks that should tell the tale. However, according to the Peterson book, the hall marked silver bands were sometimes used after the stamping because the stamping was done in lots by...
  11. achtman

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Good to hear. I don’t follow Patent Peterson’s so wasn’t sure what it was worth. mark
  12. achtman

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Is it a PeteBar? What about a BarPete? All suggestions for other names are welcome. What seems clear is that it is a top grade K&P from 1903 with what looks very much like a period replacement stem because somebody other than me also disliked the P-lip. Or maybe they chewed through it. But was...
  13. achtman

    Sommer Grand Luxe with Two Stars???

    Hi I've got two Sommer Grande Luxe bents labelled with 4 stars. Both are good smoking pipes and well made. I'm guessing from the style that they are possibly 1930s in origin but don't have any evidence for that except the style. Sommer was best known at the beginning of the 20th century for...
  14. achtman

    1899 Hallmarked Meer Pre-Colored?

    Hi, on old Meerschaums there was also an alternative in which the pipes were evenly coloured called Goudron. This is French for tar. Apparently the pipes were coated with an oil/tar mixture. They tend to be very evenly brown/red and glossy. Orlik made a number of them at the beginning of the...
  15. achtman

    Dunhill Peterson delivered from GQ

    Typo. Old age. Too late to edit. DDNR (not ddrn; similar problems) from 2018.
  16. achtman

    When Was Dunhill's Prime?

    I think you may be seeing this from the perspective of exchange rates between £ and $. I was living in Scotland in 1969-71 on a salary paid by a Canadian research fellowship. Because of the exchange rate I was earning much more than the senior professor in the department, and everything was dirt...
  17. achtman

    Dunhill Peterson delivered from GQ

    Seems that you are right. I was so convinced that you were werong and there was a difference in taste that I loaded up the same pipe with DDNR from an tin from 1918. I also loaded the new Peterson‘s DNR in a second pipe made by the pipe maker’s father. I am now smoking them in parallel. The...
  18. achtman

    Dunhill Peterson delivered from GQ

    I‘ve never smoked the Dunhill Flaker before so my only comparison is with the Charatan Flake and Dark Flake and some European flakes. I really like the Charatan Flake and Dark Flake. This Peterson‘s version is so mild that I was a bit disappointed. I‘ll have to try it again to be sure but it...
  19. achtman

    I Suspect I Won‘t Be Smoking This Barling Pipe

    I keep thinking I have bought my last pipe:-) And then another one comes along:-(
  20. achtman

    I Suspect I Won‘t Be Smoking This Barling Pipe

    It has now arrived. The condition is even better than I had hoped. The clasp on the case is so delicate I had to make a foto. However the fraught hole in the cork tenon is so tiny I don’t know if a normal pipecleaner would go through. The colouring on the Meer is indescribably gorgeous. I...