Bought My First Charatan Estate Pipe

[Kottan]

Hi Kottan,

What is gasoline cloth ?

Oh, I mean a rag wettened with petrol (e.g. fuel for lighters) to dissolve and take up the paint excess. (and to clean your finger(s).

 

[rajangan]

Would this be a good place to ask about my Charatan? I didn't realize that Charatan were a big deal until reading this thread.

A friend and I saw this estate pipe in a pipe store in Coeur d'Alene, and he told me to buy it. I didn't. 9 months later, I took a detour on the way to Vancouver and bought the pipe which was still there!

I found the pipe-pedia website on identification of Charatan's but it left me confused.

I believe the C enters the P



No DC or X


No £


2 lines

 

[Kottan]

I still have the Crayola white and gold wax sticks from the 1980s that I found when I visited the empty Upshall factory in 2018 in a draw along with other stuff from my past which had been untouched since 1989!

It's a bit strange the Upshall website is still online. (But not updated). May be Moty's son run the buisiness now?

Home Page of James Upshall Pipes

These fine smoking pipes are hand-made in Tilshead, a little village in Wiltshire, deep in the English countryside. Here the noble art of hand-turning traditional pipes continues

www.upshallusa.com

 

[kenbarnes]

Would this be a good place to ask about my Charatan? I didn't realize that Charatan were a big deal until reading this thread.

This is a Charatan Salisbury shape in a group 3 (373). Judging from the depth etc of the sandblasting it looks like it is from around 1967. It does need some TLC and the mouthpiece would need replacing. The mouthpiece was a little longer than in the photo. This brochure came out in approximately 1965. In 1967 the shape numbers included the size which became the first numeral - so this shape became a 373 (group 3). You can see the shape on the third row down.

 

[rajangan]

This is a Charatan Salisbury shape in a group 3 (373). Judging from the depth etc of the sandblasting it looks like it is from around 1967. It does need some TLC and the mouthpiece would need replacing. The mouthpiece was a little longer than in the photo. This brochure came out in approximately 1965. In 1967 the shape numbers included the size which became the first numeral - so this shape became a 373 (group 3). You can see the shape on the third row down.
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Thank you very much. Mystery solved. You're right, the stem was longer when I got it. That extra part was thinner and didn't contend well with my teeth.

 

[saltedplug]

These are the seller's photos...

Typically peculiar Charatan shape resulting in a oh! so lovely pipe! The wood the wood!