Danbar Poker - Any Info?

[trubka2]

My father-in-law gave me this poker years ago, but I rarely smoked a pipe until recently, so I wasn't very curious about it. I haven't been able to find any information on the pipe, the maker or anything else. I've tried searches in various search engines and in various languages - still nothing. I'll try to include photos, but it's my first attempt posting photos to this forum, so I'm not sure if it'll work. Just in case: It's a very dark reddish brown poker. The stamp says "DANBAR. Handmade in Denmark." There's also a stamp on the bottom that says "T37T," with "No. 2" underneath the 37. And yes, of course, I should just ask my father-in-law, but that would mean revealing to him that I've taken up pipe-smoking, which would mean humping huge suitcases of tobacco to him in Moscow, customs agents be damned, because there's no way he'd countenance sticking to the 200 gr. allowed into the Russian Federation. The longer I can put off that argument, the better, believe me.

 

[mau1]

Not seeing any pictures...

 

[jpmcwjr]

Nor am I. Google Images has obscenely long URLs, and is it possible you didn't copy/paste in the whole thing? How did you obtain that URL, pasted below.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/mdrqYwy5mRs4E6jQxkII9dWfCKdVO5Nq5sKSU5J3bJmYjBT12FZ4YEesTmMGphhYMqu3M2Fh5M-hrBcSfa_KuoqWga9YPVPsbPNwSwPwwwVas2OtM5tA9UzjjNiUYGaeu198ItNIhbYnGHf3OEqTJ297XLrL-CGikD8_uMUMaijWM58sP_94zWHYyGcXrjFXUEDZ2uOb1M1XUVcipTteJVIY0ygRSgxcWiLgPby8-ji0uytmkjRPOVOy5ePKWBJYueH5tSMgK-SyFTMVcQD5xdXalHfls4zppePpy8q_udBG33KlqATSsyF2--_fUyh-s3HQgTig3jCckhO_0_rTXfJ0sqQ9heTzXVHdJvXsB-jOqz69PruqnSr3zVXbCwS5VySEQrIW8VwW1uUGV6QN1t9nmF9KB2W0zJeUen_H4ZuCzvHsvWItw1-E5-q0ehzL5BxKgb61diMO8eYuPUMKcKHdOPETDCMrI3k58cW0OVkmd2U1FukcPmxwg-4tjdavgKLKwUcHMY6KbVJOsoJPXRfW1be-ONNkEAu7hy9MmqKJaCP9lUP6AdzXvAnktqrgE9ACWMfLlzeyoe6ohzOpD9uORl_yMSSKCEI7HxMeG0GeZfE1-9VFOd3aXmGd_9GoIIKXUyCABwROjboGyGN8R2VS6x5_2Bw=w661-h881-no

 

[mau1]

Could it be a Dunbar, which was a Comoy second?
That link isn't working either.

 

[mau1]

Here you go:

 

[trubka2]

Dang, sorry about the pictures (and thanks, mau1!)! I'll try to get that figured out this evening. They're showing up for me on two different computers, one mine and one not, on two different networks, so not sure what's up. One of my photos (above) is also now the first result when you search "Danbar pipe" in Google images. The URLs are from Google Photos (right click, copy address). I watched the tutorial on the newbies page, but I ain't paying for photobucket, which I would only use here. Maybe it's something in Photos public settings.
It's definitely not Dunbar (I wish), but Danbar.

 

[trubka2]

OK, trying again with the photos... here goes.

 

[mso489]

I dunno, but if it's really Danish, there is likely some information out there. The Danes are fine pipe makers and also record keepers. Danbar isn't a name I recognize, but they made many excellent pipes that are now no longer made. Bari comes to mind.

 

[jpmcwjr]

Once your photos are on a photo hosting site (such as Imgur.com; Postimage; Dropbox, etc. Photobucket), or on virtually any site, including this site's album such as eBay, Amazon, you-name-it, select the full sized image, then Control-click (Mac) or Right-click (Windows) on the image itself, then choose "copy image location" or similar words. Now paste that URL (the full web address, which should end in .jpg or .png) into the IMG box in the reply window of the thread you're posting to.
The site's album is also a good choice for displaying photos, and the same method works for obtaining the image's URL for copying into the IMG box.
There are other good illustrations and steps on how to post photos in the "Latest Discussions" box,

LINK to that thread

 

[snagstangl]

Søren Refbjerg Rasmussen made it I think

 

[trubka2]

10-4, jpmcwjr, many thanks! I'll give it another shot when I get back to my computer.
And thank you, snagstangl and mso489, for the leads! I hope it doesn't end up being my only fancy pipe, because it smokes worse than ones I got for pennies and scraped off enough to smoke. Just doesn't dissipate heat worth a damn.

 

[trubka2]

Snagstangl wins the prize: It's a DanbarK (not DanbaR: the word-final 'K' is dropped in the stamp b/c the shank is too narrow, apparently) from Refbjerg. Not finding this exact pipe, but SP had a stacked version, a thoroughly ridiculous-looking pipe IMHO: https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/estate/denmark/moreinfo.cfm?Product_ID=93438 Fortunately, it's not so fancy that I'll feel weird about having it in my collection. In any case, it is cool to have a piece from one of the Danish masters.