Fellow pipe smokers! These beautiful Sasieni pipe is a part of my collection. I wonder whether someone could help me with estimating the year of production?
Dating the Sasieni Pipe
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Please take a picture of the full nomenclature (camera phone, zoom in, under a light, flash off)
That appears to be a One Dot stem. But the 75SR shape number is a 2nd line shape number.
That appears to be a One Dot stem. But the 75SR shape number is a 2nd line shape number.
Well it’s definitely 1945 or earlier… I can’t remember what year they began stamping town names on them, but that’s the piece of the puzzle that I believe led Jessie to his conclusion.
I have a Barclay 2nd line that looks very similar. 756SR is the model number I believe. I’m not sure when it was made; it was a beater pipe from a lot of older pipes.
I have a Barclay 2nd line that looks very similar. 756SR is the model number I believe. I’m not sure when it was made; it was a beater pipe from a lot of older pipes.
The 75SR stamp is a real puzzler. I can't find any reference to that number in any of my Sasieni catalogs, etc.
It was a way to get around being possibly sued by Dunhill. Didn't entirely work...
I need to look through my early Sasieni catalogs again. One problem is that Sasieni would reassign model numbers, which makes things difficult.
I took a look through my copies of the 1924 Rapoport and 1935 London House catalogs and found no joy. In both catalogs they use town names, not model numbers, and in any case, these catalogs were not exhaustive. They usually listed the most popular models. I'm guessing that the "S" stands for saddle bit, just like the "R" stands for rustic.
The fact that it has a one dot stem would squarely place it in the 1920 to mid 1920’s as well.
I dug out my old Barclay 756 SR. It was in sad shape when I got it. The bit had a piece cracked off, so I spliced on a bit from a stem blank. I also made an inner tube out aluminum tube stock.
The stem has a very faint capital letter ‘B’ on it. The nomenclature is quite thin but readable. No guess on when it was made, I figure maybe 1930’s or 1940’s.
That’s quite a find on that 75SR… and it looks to be in reasonably good shape as well. Congrats!
I dug out my old Barclay 756 SR. It was in sad shape when I got it. The bit had a piece cracked off, so I spliced on a bit from a stem blank. I also made an inner tube out aluminum tube stock.
The stem has a very faint capital letter ‘B’ on it. The nomenclature is quite thin but readable. No guess on when it was made, I figure maybe 1930’s or 1940’s.
That’s quite a find on that 75SR… and it looks to be in reasonably good shape as well. Congrats!
It's obviously a 100 year old pipe due to the research these guys above have done. It is in fantastic shape and a fine old British pipe. Very good find.
Ive got 3 year old pipes in worse condition.
Looking at the nomenclature, single dot, etc, it looks like a 1923 or earlier Sasieni one dot. So, sometime between 1919 and 1923.
A good profile of the whole pipe from front to back, using a bit of zoom from a greater distance on the cellphone lens, or a 100 millimeter lens, to get a flat perspective might help determine what the town name was for this shape
A good profile of the whole pipe from front to back, using a bit of zoom from a greater distance on the cellphone lens, or a 100 millimeter lens, to get a flat perspective might help determine what the town name was for this shape