1940s Pipes by Lee Catalog
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That’s a pipe for Chuck Yeager to smoke when he’s squiring Gladys on the town!
Wow, is that Atomic Age styling!
This is a pre medico ventilator - the belief is that Medico bought the rights to this design. I have one arriving next week, apparently, I purchased one when putting it into my cart to use as a bookmark. @Parsimonious Pipe has three of these.
@Parsimonious Piper Do you have the Lord Davenport Puoe by Lee Patent Pending. 
- US 2232092 A (applied 1940, awarded 1941) for an improvement to the prior design. This patent number later appeared on Pipes by Lee, and was assigned to Davenport, Ltd., suggesting a possible connection. However, no corroboration of this speculation has yet been found.
Here is the major informational source on why the Trailblazer is a Pipe by Lee. Pipe Lovers Magazine 1946 all numbers : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive - https://archive.org/details/pipe-lovers-magazine-1946-7/Pipe Lovers Magazine 1946-8
Pipe Lovers Magazine 1946 all numbers : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Cult magazine about tobacco and smoking pipes.
archive.org
Absolutely. I didn’t know there was any doubt about this. Here’s one of many items verifying that it was a Lee model, an extract from the 1946 edition of the RTDA:
Thank you for the additional information. One of the last unsolved questions is was Lee‘s name Lee Singer?
And one last question for anyone out there. There is some information that suggests that Lee later left to work for Barnaby Pipes. Is that really correct?
Yes and yes, although Lee was co-founder as well as president of Barnaby. I have a rather bulky file on Singer but no time for the foreseeable future to organize and post it.
Fair trade law - Wikipedia
During the run of Lee pipes 45 states had fair trade laws that set minimum prices for goods like Lee pipes.
Winchester, Remington and especially Browning rigorously enforced minimum retail pricing.
Damn that Sam Walton.
By 1975 the practice was outlawed.
So many mysteries being solved, but so many more questions opening up.
Yes, I have one with the 1938 Pat. Pending, two with dual patent 1938/1941, and seven with the 1941 patent. Four are Lees, the rest Lord Davenport.
Two of the Davenports have 2 7-pt stars and one has 2 5-pt stars, so there must have been collaboration of some kind, and spanning the first two Lee generations.
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