Thanks again. I really appreciate the time you took to help me.Base on the slot, this was probably made by Barling. I guess they had more stem shapes that I'm used to seeing, so made sometime between the mid to late 60's. In the later pipes made after the factories closed and the production was outsourced you can see where they took a molded stem and tried to round out the sides of the slot. And mostly they didn't even do that.
I'll stick with the dating. Nothing I can see suggests anything different.
I think that all of your Family Era pipes are Algerian based on the style of the nomenclature. Those Barling's Make logo stamps are pretty standard for post war '40's stamps, which continued into the mid fifties. Barling lost its Algerian operations during the War for Independence in 1954, and afterward, bought their briar from Otto Kahn, IIRC, who was the biggest merchant at that time. But Barling would have had stocks to last years from their Algerian operations. Around the mid 50's the logo stamp changed, with a much higher arched Barling's over Make.
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Congratulations on the wonderful gift that David left you. Memories continue and this is a truly wonderful way to support them.
I got a bunch of tobacco and 50 pipes from David's sister: Comoy's, Sasienis, Petersons, three Bewlays (one is a birth year), Stanwells, an Elliott Nachwalter Briar WorkShop, a Carmignani Roma, a Charatan, a White Bar, and a couple of others. Perhaps the most impressive are excellent condition straight smooth 1923 Dunhill billiard, and a beautiful straight grain W.O. Larsen dublin that I wish I could find a date for.
You more than anybody know how I feel about about precious gifts. In this case, it's bittersweet, but cherished beyond words.