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Huge College "Class Pipe" Collection including Dunhills (Villanova Syracuse, Lehigh, etc.)
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I can’t figure out if this comment makes you way older or way hipsterer than meToo Kewl for Skool as the hipsters say.
I believe "all" were attached with sterling silver pins, nails, brads, whatever you want to call them. Then buffed and highly polished removing any trace of the pin. Some have pins, which can be seen. I find it difficult to accept adhesive was used, other than to initially, hold in place. In over 50 pipes, I have seen only one missing a letter, or numeral. And I could see no evidence of how it had been secured. Sorry, that is all I know.
Probably just older…….hopefully so, anyway.
Back in my day we didn’t have the word ‘Hipster’. People like that just got called Wankers! Lol
A couple of years ago I stumbled onto the extraordinarily good pipedia article about (and Brian's remarkable collection of) college class pipes. And became in turn thoroughly intrigued by the idea of several generations of American male college students being inculcated into something of a cult of pipe smoking their freshmen year.
There are a number of advertisements in the pipedia article that offer at least a hint of how all this was marketed. But one I stumbled on for New Haven's Owl Shop from 1941 (not included there) seemed particularly good.
There are a number of advertisements in the pipedia article that offer at least a hint of how all this was marketed. But one I stumbled on for New Haven's Owl Shop from 1941 (not included there) seemed particularly good.
Here's a picture of my uncle at an honors recognition occasion when he graduated from college. It conveys the "feel" of the period quite well. Men were men, frivolous careers were frowned upon, WWII was ramping up in Europe, and tobacco-related activities were a significant part of life.
Too bad nobody was smoking at the moment---I suppose it was too formal---but I know he was a pipe man.
Too bad nobody was smoking at the moment---I suppose it was too formal---but I know he was a pipe man.
Incredibly, Brian has these 2 unsmoked Yale Owl Shop pipes. Yale, Class of 1951 and 1954. Imagine a tobacco/pipe shop on a college campus...
"CHILLLUCKY" Curious, is good, well, maybe not, for cats.
Great thread. I have a friend who collects old University of Louisville yearbooks. The amount of pipe smoking in formal faculty portraits is amazing!
To "Guyless" Thank you, I have that article and should have included it on the page. I called the "Owl Shop" Had a lengthy conversation with (I think) the General Mgr. at the time. After we spoke, He told me searched every nook and cranny for any remaining silver letters or numerals, without success. Pity !
At least you tried! I have to say I'm surprised by quite how fondly Yale's pipe smoking era is remembered and how much material is out there--including quite a lengthy mid-50s Life magazine photo feature about an annual pipe smoking "contest." This featuring several photos of an attractive token woman (at least a decade before Yale officially became coed).
Was it some sort of college thing way back when? I was only class of 90 and there weren't any pipe smokers. I mean there were, but they weren't smoking tobacco. Aluminum foil pipe wouldn't have lasted this long.
At the bottom of the photo, is a "fountain pen" . Another elegant artifact rarely seen today. Ah, the good ol' days !