Just finished cleaning this one up. It's a Yello Bole Imperial that looks a lot like the Kaywoodie Handmade series.
It's huge at almost 7 inches long with a two inch tall bowl, but only weighs about two ounces. It has a push stem with a removable stinger.
It's stamped, "Yello-bole" over "Cured With Real Honey", "Imperial" and "Imported Briar" with the KBB clover leaf on the left. The stem has the Yello-Bole trademark circle on the top.
Date of manufacture is estimated to be between 1940 and 1955.
Since I like big chunky pipes, I knew I had to have this one when I saw it on ebay. I was the lone bidder at $9.99.
Right now it still tastes like sweet grain alcohol and briar, but I plan to change that in just a few minutes. I'm thinking a bowlful of Sutliff Heavy English might be a good choice to bring this pipe back to life.
It's huge at almost 7 inches long with a two inch tall bowl, but only weighs about two ounces. It has a push stem with a removable stinger.
It's stamped, "Yello-bole" over "Cured With Real Honey", "Imperial" and "Imported Briar" with the KBB clover leaf on the left. The stem has the Yello-Bole trademark circle on the top.
Date of manufacture is estimated to be between 1940 and 1955.
Since I like big chunky pipes, I knew I had to have this one when I saw it on ebay. I was the lone bidder at $9.99.
Right now it still tastes like sweet grain alcohol and briar, but I plan to change that in just a few minutes. I'm thinking a bowlful of Sutliff Heavy English might be a good choice to bring this pipe back to life.
