Help Needed; Dating A Caminetto

[petes03]

First off, let me apologize for the quality of the pics, my phone is my only camera.

As some of you know, I got this Caminetto as a lightly used estate some time ago, and only had to do a pretty basic clean up on it. It's one of the higher quality pipes in my collection, and I'd like to know more about it. Now on to my question, I know some of you have Caminettos that are accurately dated, my question is how do I do that!? I've tried pipephil.com and have come up empty handed. Any help is appreciated!

 

[petes03]

 

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[petes03]

By the way, it would be nice if it were a 1984, as that is my birth year!

 

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[sorringowl]

Check this thread out, PetesO3: http://pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/pricing-help-ebay
It seems Ted Swearingen of smokingpipes (and those guys know their stuff) would date this somewhere in the early days, post '79, pre-late '80's, but, it also seems dating to an exact year on these early, thin, gold moustache caminettos is difficult. Hope that helps.

 

[petes03]

Thanks sorringowl. I had actually figured that it was an early era, I'd just like to get closer to the actual year.

 

[cigrmaster]

Looks to me like you have one the much sought after Radice/Ascorti era Caminetto's. I am no expert but I have owned two of them and both were great smokers.

 

[petes03]

Thanks Harris! I didn't know that they were more sought after. I love the pipe and just want to learn more about it.

 

[petes03]

Just giving this one a bump, just to see if I can get some more eyes on it. Thank guys!

 

[jonasclark]

The little shield-like design (in your case it encloses the shape number, but often it doesn't) is the Tinder Box logo, as they were a near-exclusive retailer of Caminettos. I've seen a late-80s Caminetto with the big white moustache, so this is between 1980 (when ascorti and Radice split) and, yes, late 80s.

 

[petes03]

Wow! I see this one has been dragged up from the depths!

Thanks Jonas, I didn't know that about Tinder box!

 

[rmbittner]

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[rmbittner]

Petes03:
It isn't a whole lot of practical help in terms of dating your pipe, but you might enjoy the story of Caminetto that's on Pipedia. (It's the wiki devoted to all things pipe.)
http://pipedia.org/wiki/Caminetto
Bob