Can anyone here confirm or refute my impression, based on scant evidence, that GBD Conquest and Collector series pipes bear shape numbers while the Colossus series does not? Pipedia's GBD article pays little to no attention to the oversize series (as is true with Sasieni's KIng Size line on that page).
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I don't think that I have seen a GBD Colossus that did not have a shape number.
But you are right, there is very little info on the web about the oversize models.
But you are right, there is very little info on the web about the oversize models.
Hmmm...interesting. I did Google as Craig61a suggested and see you're right. I have two Colosseses, a Virgin taper billiard and a New Era square shank/8-sided panel billiard: neither has a shape number. I also used to have a prince I bought from Smoking Pipes in 2016 and when I checked back just now I see that it too lacked a shape number. Just one (or three) of those things I guess, like U.S. Charatans without an L stamp. Thanks gentlemen.
GBDs are one of my favorite old factory pipes. But, information about them is lacking in my experience.
Greg Pease seems to know quite a bit, but I haven't talked to him in a decade or so.
Greg Pease seems to know quite a bit, but I haven't talked to him in a decade or so.