Charatan's Salesman Example?

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Buffalo

Can't Leave
Oct 8, 2022
331
1,103
Northwest Kansas
Hey Gang,

Was going through a massive load of estate pipes that I got in today. 100ish pipes, wound up with about 80 basket pipes and 20 that may be worth doing something with. One of the odds one that I came across was this one. It has the Charatan's (Lane) mark stamped on the tenon, the shape and everything else was X'd out.

I believe I saw a salesman's example that was X'd out in this manner, but I am not 100% sure as to what I've got here. There were 3 other Charatan's in this lot, a couple of Parkers, a Longchamp, a couple of Pre-replublic Petersons, a Colossal, one I've never seen, a King's Cross Featherweight Cutty (Made by Savinelli, I believe).

Anyways, are there any Charatan's experts here that can shed some light onto this X'd out pipe?

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jguss

Lifer
Jul 7, 2013
2,718
7,570
This extract from an eBay listing a while ago offers one common explanation for the X’s:

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And in this extract from a forum thread early this year Jesse offers two others:

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