...at least it's incredible to me!
I don't have many older pipes and this is my first that has a case.
It arrived yesterday and it knock'd my sox off, flipp'd my lid!
It's actually quite petite, maybe a grp 2 or 3, it is amazingly lightweight, it is very well crafted.
I guess I'd call it a scalloped panel billiard?
I can't wait to find out how she smokes, hopefully it'll deliver.
The pics are as arrived, gonna clean it up in short order.
But, it did cause some perplexity on my part, mostly because I was expecting that the slim band would be silver, it's called a Sterling so I assumed it was silver, but it's actually 14k gold, and it's stamped A. Orlik.
So that got me off looking.
I didn't find much, but I did find a little. I think at some time I'll try to edit the Orlik entry on Pipedia with this info - it was incredible how many exact citations of that entry i found while looking, mostly ebay sales and pipe forums, and it struck me with just how heavily utilized of a resource it is, yet there seems to be relatively few contributors, so I'm gonna try to add some stuff there, although I am a bit timid about it all, going in for an edit is a little intimidating...
Anyway, what I found is that Alfred was Louis's younger brother, born 1878. It seems that during the 20's he came over here to NY to set up as the Orlik distributor, passenger records from Ellis Island first list him as arriving in 1904 at the age of 26, there are quite a number passages through the years and by 1921 his residence is listed as NY instead of London.
Here's an old invoice from 1929:
Alfred seemed to be into jewelery and fine fittings, I think my pipe was imported here sans band and it was put on here in NY...
...here's a famous photograph that appeared in Vogue circa 1946 and features a credited A. Orlik cigarette holder:
As for Louis, that was actually a nickname, his real name was Alois and he was born in 1875 --
-- that means he established L. Orlik Ltd. at the age of 24!
Although it seems to be assumed that Orlik was always at 17 Old Bond Street, the evidence points to that address only some time after the 30's. In the 20's the addy was 62 Barbican E.C. 1, then in the 30's it was 17/14 Carthusian Street --- I'm totally unfamiliar with the London terrain and maps didn't really help me much, and I can't find a London Post Office Directory for the time frames --- regardless, Old Bond Street remains the famous address associated with Orlik.
This is 17 Old Bond Street
1961 photo of 29 Old Bond Street, blurrily across the street to the upper left I see what appears to be the Orlik logo on the 2nd level...
am I crazy?
The address is now a Prada shop
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/tmg9353991/Shop-Mary-Portas-at-Prada.html
In this amazingly banal old video, much like an Andy Warhol film, you'll see traffic footage from 1934 and amazingly, our cameraman is upstairs next to 16 Old Bond Street, it could have possibly been filmed from 17???
http://youtu.be/8bqptB-34mc
Anyway, enough rambling, here's the damn pipe!
But one more thing,
this 1925 patent drawing looks very close to my pipe, not the same but strikingly similar:
Now,
here's the damn pipe!
I don't have many older pipes and this is my first that has a case.
It arrived yesterday and it knock'd my sox off, flipp'd my lid!
It's actually quite petite, maybe a grp 2 or 3, it is amazingly lightweight, it is very well crafted.
I guess I'd call it a scalloped panel billiard?
I can't wait to find out how she smokes, hopefully it'll deliver.
The pics are as arrived, gonna clean it up in short order.
But, it did cause some perplexity on my part, mostly because I was expecting that the slim band would be silver, it's called a Sterling so I assumed it was silver, but it's actually 14k gold, and it's stamped A. Orlik.
So that got me off looking.
I didn't find much, but I did find a little. I think at some time I'll try to edit the Orlik entry on Pipedia with this info - it was incredible how many exact citations of that entry i found while looking, mostly ebay sales and pipe forums, and it struck me with just how heavily utilized of a resource it is, yet there seems to be relatively few contributors, so I'm gonna try to add some stuff there, although I am a bit timid about it all, going in for an edit is a little intimidating...
Anyway, what I found is that Alfred was Louis's younger brother, born 1878. It seems that during the 20's he came over here to NY to set up as the Orlik distributor, passenger records from Ellis Island first list him as arriving in 1904 at the age of 26, there are quite a number passages through the years and by 1921 his residence is listed as NY instead of London.
Here's an old invoice from 1929:
Alfred seemed to be into jewelery and fine fittings, I think my pipe was imported here sans band and it was put on here in NY...
...here's a famous photograph that appeared in Vogue circa 1946 and features a credited A. Orlik cigarette holder:
As for Louis, that was actually a nickname, his real name was Alois and he was born in 1875 --
-- that means he established L. Orlik Ltd. at the age of 24!
Although it seems to be assumed that Orlik was always at 17 Old Bond Street, the evidence points to that address only some time after the 30's. In the 20's the addy was 62 Barbican E.C. 1, then in the 30's it was 17/14 Carthusian Street --- I'm totally unfamiliar with the London terrain and maps didn't really help me much, and I can't find a London Post Office Directory for the time frames --- regardless, Old Bond Street remains the famous address associated with Orlik.
This is 17 Old Bond Street
1961 photo of 29 Old Bond Street, blurrily across the street to the upper left I see what appears to be the Orlik logo on the 2nd level...
am I crazy?
The address is now a Prada shop
http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/news-features/tmg9353991/Shop-Mary-Portas-at-Prada.html
In this amazingly banal old video, much like an Andy Warhol film, you'll see traffic footage from 1934 and amazingly, our cameraman is upstairs next to 16 Old Bond Street, it could have possibly been filmed from 17???
http://youtu.be/8bqptB-34mc
Anyway, enough rambling, here's the damn pipe!
But one more thing,
this 1925 patent drawing looks very close to my pipe, not the same but strikingly similar:
Now,
here's the damn pipe!
