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Jon might very well be able to give you information about the tobacconist who sold it, right down to his choice in underwear.Hi Jesse,
Could Gus be of help ?
I'd really like to know about the retailer who once sold it.
An approximately 117 year old pipe, I am so chuffed
It's original to the pipe. I have a few Barling semi-orific bits from that period and that's exactly what they look like.
That decorative bead work.... and on such a small scale!.... was the first thing that caught my eye. Incredible workmanship...but back in 1903 those kind of craftsmen existed in every factory.
Yes and I suppose it all done be hand , frazing machines did not do such.
It is so typical french too. I've seen so many french stummels with this kind of bead work,love it.
As it turns out Peter Benjamin Harris, the seller of this pipe, was notorious in Edwardian England for going commando. In an interview in the August 1905 number of Cigar & Tobacco World he dilated at some length upon this very subject, and was quoted as stating “I find it not only refreshing in the muggy heat of a London Summer to dispense with linens entirely, but a surprisingly effective ice-breaker at Ascot and similar occasions for social intercourse. And although in all candour the notion repels many of the fairer sex, in my experience many more are curiously attracted when they learn of my sartorial predilections. This is how, in fact, I made the acquaintance of Mrs Harris and persuaded her to yield to my importunities.”
The article is accompanied by a series of tasteless woodcut drawings which I would post here for general edification were I not confident it would lead to the deletion of this thread.
Shops and buildings in Baker Street
View of front elevations of shops and buildings at 13-17 Baker Street, St Marylebone, at the junction with George Street. Businesses include Sketchley dry cleaners, Peter B. Harris tobacconist and gentlemans hairdresser, and Abacus.
www.londonpicturearchive.org.uk
Apparently the libertine man was also a hairdresser .
Could this account for his habit going commando ?
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Shops and buildings in Baker Street
View of front elevations of shops and buildings at 13-17 Baker Street, St Marylebone, at the junction with George Street. Businesses include Sketchley dry cleaners, Peter B. Harris tobacconist and gentlemans hairdresser, and Abacus.
Apparently the libertine man was also a hairdresser .
Could this account for his habit going commando ?
This photo was taken some 63 years after Harris’s death, long after the company passed out of the family’s hands, but I’ve seen his will and it contained explicit instructions to his widow that he be buried commando.
You would be in good company. By the outbreak of the Second World War Alfred Dunhill, Joel Sasieni, Montague Barling, Louis Chapuis, Alois Orlik and Reuben Charatan are just a few of the luminaries of the pipe world who were known to go commando. In 1939 they signed a petition, published in the Times, demanding that Neville Chamberlain and his cabinet do the same. Had Chamberlain appeased the petitioners, as he appeased so many others, the trajectory of the 20th century might have been very different. This interesting speculation into what is now called alternative history was the subject of my doctoral dissertation, recently published by Random House and soon to be a major motion picture streaming on Amazon Prime.
Of course. $29.95 plus s&h; $39.95 for a signed copy. Just send me a mailing addressz
I shouldn’t say this (Random House will be pissed) but if you wait a few weeks you’ll be able to pick one up on the remainder stack for a buck and a half; signed copies will be seventy five cents.
The intricacies of dressing in post Edwardian England! Now I know more about it than I ever cared to know!
And poor Neville. "There will be peace in our time". Well, sometime....
And poor Neville. "There will be peace in our time". Well, sometime....
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