Hi Kiev,
In its current condition you could sell it for about $25-30. Anyone looking at a bowl that fouled with cake, and a rim that is buried under cake isn't going to spend more than that, if that. Cleaned up and spotless, assuming that it looked clean and solid, you could see $135-50 on eBay, provided the listing is done properly. If you're cleaning this up for resale, forget about it. There's not going to be much margin. Is it worth restoring as a potential smoker, yes. I've taken worse a wound up with a pretty good pipe. But I do my own clean up.
I haven't priced stems recently, but Walker's prices seemed reasonable as I recollect. Ronni doesn't offer a defined restoration service like he used to do. He now takes a different approach, deciding what the pipe needs and how long he'll need to do it. The suggestion to contact J. H. Lowe is an excellent one. Tim West is the best repairman alive today. When the repair is stem work I tend to think Walker because they are known for that, plus they have an ozone deodorizer to kill any mustiness.
Post family era Barling pipes are not collectibles. They're often excellent pipes, as good as any of the Fmaily Era product. Unfortunately, Post Family pipes have been unfairly and ignorantly labeled as inherently inferior and collectors buy that bilge, perhaps because it offers a simple answer. Quality did decline after Imperial took over, but it was a gradual process, not a precipitous one. In 1964 Barling was producing great pipes.
BTW, there's another five digit post family Barling up on eBay, a Guinea Grain with an army mount and it has a 7 just before the final number. So it would appear likely that Barling went to a five digit code when the pipe featured an army mount, using a 7 to denote the mount. See? Learn something new every day.
In its current condition you could sell it for about $25-30. Anyone looking at a bowl that fouled with cake, and a rim that is buried under cake isn't going to spend more than that, if that. Cleaned up and spotless, assuming that it looked clean and solid, you could see $135-50 on eBay, provided the listing is done properly. If you're cleaning this up for resale, forget about it. There's not going to be much margin. Is it worth restoring as a potential smoker, yes. I've taken worse a wound up with a pretty good pipe. But I do my own clean up.
I haven't priced stems recently, but Walker's prices seemed reasonable as I recollect. Ronni doesn't offer a defined restoration service like he used to do. He now takes a different approach, deciding what the pipe needs and how long he'll need to do it. The suggestion to contact J. H. Lowe is an excellent one. Tim West is the best repairman alive today. When the repair is stem work I tend to think Walker because they are known for that, plus they have an ozone deodorizer to kill any mustiness.
Post family era Barling pipes are not collectibles. They're often excellent pipes, as good as any of the Fmaily Era product. Unfortunately, Post Family pipes have been unfairly and ignorantly labeled as inherently inferior and collectors buy that bilge, perhaps because it offers a simple answer. Quality did decline after Imperial took over, but it was a gradual process, not a precipitous one. In 1964 Barling was producing great pipes.
BTW, there's another five digit post family Barling up on eBay, a Guinea Grain with an army mount and it has a 7 just before the final number. So it would appear likely that Barling went to a five digit code when the pipe featured an army mount, using a 7 to denote the mount. See? Learn something new every day.
