Can Anyone ID this Nomenclature?

[mikethompson]

Probably an easy one for some of you guys.

Thanks all!

Edit: worlds smallest picture! Lets see if I can get this to work

 

[mikethompson]

See if this works

 

[mikethompson]

 

[python]

I tried to fix it, but it only uploaded as a thumbnail. So it is only able to show as a thumbnail.

 

[python]

You got it now. ?

 

[python]

What's on the other side of the pipe? That photo is not a nomenclature.

 

[mothernaturewilleatusallforbreakfast]

"Lane had the pipe making machines brought from Leeds to London and used the well esteemed name Ben Wade to start the fabrication of entirely machine-made pipes at Charatan's Prescott Street factory. (Some sources say "not earlier than 1973" but proven by cataloges this isn't true.) Alas the "new" Ben Wades were quite usual series pipes, copies of well known standard shapes. The pipes often showed hardly masqued fillings and were processed quite coarsely with hardly polished pre-moulded Ebonite stems. Therewith Ben Wade degenerated definitively to a second brand. The stamping now read "Made in London England" or just "London". Nothing was left from the quality of the pipes once made in Leeds!" - (excerpt from Pipedia)

Although, the pipe in your picture does not look like a pre-molded Ebonite stem.

 

[ssjones]

Probably an easy one for some of you guys.

Thanks all!

Edit: worlds smallest picture! Lets see if I can get this to work

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GBD.

 

[mikethompson]

 

[mikethompson]

Does the number clear anything up?

The pipe does not strike me as a low grade one, at least from the pictures.

 

[python]

I have no idea.

 

[mikethompson]

GBD.

From pipedia, GBD shape 73 is a Bulldog with a diamond stem



Here is a shot of the stamping on a GBD pipe. It looks like it is the same 'font' as the one I'm asking about.

So it looks like more evidence for the GBD side I think.

 

[ssjones]

The shape number, marble stem said GBD to me. But, to my knowledge, they never used "Made in London England" (at least not in a straight line)

The Cadogan era COM looks like this.

 

[snagstangl]

I was going with a Charatan 2nd, lots of those with the same country of manufacture stamp in the same format and exact wording.

 

[mikethompson]

Whatever it is, it was within my pain threshold for estate pipes, so I snagged it up. I haven't cleaned one of those types of stems before.