The first 3 are basket pipes I picked up from a local newsagents (the reddish one was my first pipe and I had no idea what I was looking for). I asked the shopkeeper where he gets them from and he said Peterson's, so I assumed they were Peterson seconds - but none of them have any marking whatsoever, and it looks like they ought to be stamped Irish Seconds if they are made by Peterson's.
The last one, with the much nicer stem, I picked up from an antiques shop for a tenner, it's incredibly hard to make out because it's so worn but there's an engraving in cursive on the bottom of the shank that says Ben Wade, and under that Colindale. Weirdly none of the Ben Wade stamps I've found online look like that. It also seems to have been repaired or tinkered with at somepoint to make it fit the fancy stem, which isn't quite flush with the shank
The last one, with the much nicer stem, I picked up from an antiques shop for a tenner, it's incredibly hard to make out because it's so worn but there's an engraving in cursive on the bottom of the shank that says Ben Wade, and under that Colindale. Weirdly none of the Ben Wade stamps I've found online look like that. It also seems to have been repaired or tinkered with at somepoint to make it fit the fancy stem, which isn't quite flush with the shank
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