1926 Barling Montreal

[sablebrush52]

This has been a very happy time for acquiring vintage Barlings. While I'm waiting for the 1872 Barling to make it out of Customs, Buroak offered to sell me the Barling pictured below. Here's a little backstory.
Last year several 1926 Barlings came up for auction that were uniquely interesting to me because they all had model number stamps that corresponded to the model numbers in the catalog that I had restored and published several years ago. I had never seen any Barlings from this period that were stamped with model numbers. This one was model 31 and was named the "Montreal" in the pre WW1 Barling catalog.
Buroak called me to ask if I was going to bid on this pipe as he would not bid against me. Since he liked this one so much I said that I wouldn't bid against him and wished him luck. I bid on the two others, both of which went through the roof, probably because of the more elaborate silver work, and Buroak won his auction. No model stamped 1920's Barling for me...
So when he called me to offer me the pipe I was delighted. As it turns out, I got lucky. The pipe turned out to have been lightly smoked, with solid undamaged chamber walls, and barely any build up in the shank airway or stem. Took about 15-20 minutes to thoroughly clean, sanitize and polish. Now I have another much desired rarity in my collection, thanks to Buroak.

 

[ashdigger]

Ohhhh, that's sweet!!!

 

[JimInks]

Beautiful, man. Beautiful.

 

[ssjones]

Very cool. You've had quite a month of May!

 

[georged]

Sorry, Jesse, but you have exceeded your Cool Old Pipe Acquisition Limit for 2017. In MAY no less. 8O
I don't know what the penalty is, but you can be sure the Britwood pipegods have sharp pencils and keep track of such things closely. :twisted:

 

[wyfbane]

^LoL
Congrats Jesse! You are such an asset to this community it makes me happy that you are getting these great additions to your collection!

 

[mawnansmiff]

Jesse, I'm assuming you used a couple of neodymium magnets to get that gorgeous pipe to stand as it does. Would I be right?
Regards,
Jay.

 

[sablebrush52]

Jesse, I'm assuming you used a couple of neodymium magnets to get that gorgeous pipe to stand as it does. Would I be right?

You would indeed be right.
Thanks for the kind words guys!

 

[duffer]

Talk about hitting the Barling lottery......congrats!

 

[brian64]

This one also deserves a Holy Cow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwGNDC1w1xU
When this type of stuff happens, it usually comes in threes. There should be one more such serendipitous acquisition in the near future.

 

[tschiraldi]

That is one special chunk of Briarcliff! Congratulations!

 

[buroak]

This pipe was hard to part with, and I wrestled with the decision to do so at first. Being able to place it in Sable's hands, though, turned parting ways with this pipe from painful to a real pleasure. The old girl is with the right fella. I could not be happier with the outcome. ::

 

[jpmcwjr]

Good work all around!

 

[didimauw]

Your going to smoke it right?

 

[jpmcwjr]

Oh, hell, yeah!

 

[sablebrush52]

Your going to smoke it right?

Absolutely! I'm not likely to smoke an unsmoked antique, especially if I've paid a premium for the collectible condition, but a previously smoked pipe that's in suitable condition for a match and tobacco is going to be smoked. I'm primarily a smoker of pipes, not primarily a collector. But I'm also not an absolutist, as in the "destiny" of a pipe is to be smoked, or the pipe will be "unfulfilled" if it isn't smoked. This pipe has been carefully smoked and it's in thoroughly cleaned condition, so I'll smoke it, carefully.

 

[didimauw]

Awesome! ::