Estate Kaywoodie Churchwarden

[SmokeyJock]

I was given an early xmas present today of an old kaywoodie churchwarden! The vulcanite stem needs a little cleaning, the metal a polish, the stummel a wax and the bowl a ream, but it's beautiful! A London made kaywoodie apparently, will post photos later this evening

 

[SmokeyJock]

Some photos, will get better ones in daylight in the morning

 

[Snook]

Long boi. Nice gift.

 

[SmokeyJock]

Some more photos. Have given the stummel a light polish with some renaissance wax and toothpasted the stem. Struggling to get good photos of all the markings on it with this phone, but they are: "Kaywoodie Churchwarden" on one side, and "Made in London England", "ESP", and "2899" on the other. Can't find much about England-made kaywoodies online and it seems like dating them is a rather imprecise art, if anyone can shed any light on it I'd be grateful! Has a few fills so I can't imagine it's from one of their fancier lines

 

[stewartu]

Looks like a nice restoration. Hope you enjoy it.

 

[beefeater33]

Does it still have the stinger?........... is it a 3 hole or 4 hole?

 

[SmokeyJock]

Does it still have the stinger?........... is it a 3 hole or 4 hole?

no stinger I'm afraid

 

[JoburgB2]

Good for you! Happy Christmas!

 

[SmokeyJock]

Good for you! Happy Christmas!

happy christmas to you too!

 

[ssjones]

I have never seen a Kaywoodie Churchwarden that was made in England, nice find!
I owned this one, a 1950's, four-hole stinger Supergrain. It was lovely, but with the stinger intact, difficult for me to smoke. I couldn't bring myself to cut the stinger and always wondered what it would have smoked like without it.

 

[chumleeroy]

Some more photos. Have given the stummel a light polish with some renaissance wax and toothpasted the stem. Struggling to get good photos of all the markings on it with this phone, but they are: "Kaywoodie Churchwarden" on one side, and "Made in London England", "ESP", and "2899" on the other. Can't find much about England-made kaywoodies online and it seems like dating them is a rather imprecise art, if anyone can shed any light on it I'd be grateful! Has a few fills so I can't imagine it's from one of their fancier linesView attachment 357340View attachment 357339View attachment 357342View attachment 357341

I believe English made kaywoodie were made primarily by comoy. Also civic made "the drinkless" stamped pipes that had kaywoodie stingers in push style bits w kaywoodie shape standards.

 

[chumleeroy]

I have never seen a Kaywoodie Churchwarden that was made in England, nice find!
I owned this one, a 1950's, four-hole stinger Supergrain. It was lovely, but with the stinger intact, difficult for me to smoke. I couldn't bring myself to cut the stinger and always wondered what it would have smoked like without it.

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Very cool, you have the box. Don't see many of those. I love kaywoodie but they would have really been better off sticking to regular push bits you could easily remove the.stinger from

 

[buroak]

I have several English Kaywoodies, but all were most likely made by Civic. Yours is clearly made by Comoy. It is the first I have seen with that country of manufacture stamping. What an excellent Christmas gift!

 

[ssjones]

Very cool, you have the box. Don't see many of those. I love kaywoodie but they would have really been better off sticking to regular push bits you could easily remove the.stinger from

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Kaywoodie Supergrain Churchwarden (Shape 95)

Blog by Al Jones I’ve never owned or smoked a Churchwarden style pipe. Last year I added finding the right one to my pipe wish list. When I started investigating vintage Kaywoodie options, …

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