Castello

[constabĺeron]

For what I paid for it no complaints. I was trying to get information on it.Thank you

 

[Searock Fan]

Nice. The ivory stem bar suggests that the pipe is a very early model. Is the stem material acrylic or Vulcanite?

If I may, I believe the white bar on the stem indicates it was "not" to be sold in the American market. American market pipes had the little "diamond" on the side of the stem. As to stem material, In my 60+ years of smoking Castellos I've never seen one with an original Vulcanite stem. Even my 1948 Castello has a Lucite stem. But, who knows, maybe they tried vulcanite and didn't like it?

 

[briarblues]

Yes, the white bar was used originally by Castello, but the US distributor carried a line of pipes names White Bar, thus Castello ( in the early years ) created the faux diamond logo for the US market. Once the White Bar brand or the distributor were changed ( I don't know which ) Castello offered both logos for the US market. The faux diamond logo is still offered to continue the "trade mark", but in lesser numbers than the white bar logo.

The Vulcanite or Acrylic stem thing is really interesting. On an early advert, for Castello, it stated the pipes had Vulcanite stems. Exactly how many of these pipes were made, I have no idea, or if it was misprint in the advert.

I think we need to remember that the earliest Castello pipes were "machine made" like Savinelli, Rossi, Stanwell .. etc. Then they changed to being hand made. Were some of the machine made pipes fitted with Vulcanite stems? The only people that would know are no longer with us.