I Just Got 2x 82 Years Old American Pipes From German eBay
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I think those were a contract with the US military for being supplied to troops in large ration boxes.
And by the end of the war about half the production of US pipe makers was of pipes not made from imported briar from the Heath shrub around the rim of the Mediterranean.
Yes, North Carolina mountain laurel was “geniune briar” just boiled for hours in a 12% boric acid solution.
After the war, just as soon as they could get real imported briar again, the substitutes died.
I’d like to own one.
By all accounts they were inferior to real briar.
I got in this probable generic unsmoked “wartime pipe” just today. Real Algerian briar colors quickly, this one in three smokes. It’s machine made and hand carved to disguise flaws.
Officers likely got these,
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And by the end of the war about half the production of US pipe makers was of pipes not made from imported briar from the Heath shrub around the rim of the Mediterranean.
Yes, North Carolina mountain laurel was “geniune briar” just boiled for hours in a 12% boric acid solution.
After the war, just as soon as they could get real imported briar again, the substitutes died.
I’d like to own one.
By all accounts they were inferior to real briar.
I got in this probable generic unsmoked “wartime pipe” just today. Real Algerian briar colors quickly, this one in three smokes. It’s machine made and hand carved to disguise flaws.
Officers likely got these,
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From my research I found out that some of these pipes might not even be made with real briar, but with Rhododendron burl. I found a photo of them literally gathering the Rhododendron burl and I also stumbled upon a patent mentioning Rhododendron. After I finish with the restorations I might pe parting with one of them or even both.
This is the hallowed and sacred grave of Coxswain Urban Herschel Marlow, deacon of the Christian Church (we were pacifists) who died at his station at the helm of the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor Hawaii on Sunday December 7, 1941.
Urban Herschel Marlow (1915-1941) - Find a Grave...
Local man among fatalities of Pearl Harbor Attack. Dec. 7 2016 marked the 75th Anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack which took place on a Sunday morning of 1941. The Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the American Army and Navy base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack came by complete...
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I served his widowed mother and his grief stricken sister communion every Sunday morning, every Sunday evening, and every Wednesday evening using the same communion plates Urban Marlow used. They are still in service today.
My wife, wonders why I’m very uncomfortable at a sushi restaurant.
World War Two still affects us all, even today.
We made the rich pay over 90 per cent income tax rates and even the factory workers paid 20%.
The distillers in Kentucky and Tennessee only made alcohol for torpedo fuel.
Forty years later my mother warned me if I brought home a little Japanese girl she’d drown her like the rats they were.
They snuck up on Pearl Harbor early one Sunday and they tortured our boys they captured.
Current Tax Payment Act of 1943 - Wikipedia
To this day, an American made factory pipe made of real briar imported from European countries around the Mediterranean will be stamped IMPORTED BRIAR.
During the war they could stamp anything Geniune Briar.
The pipes you have were made in Sparta of processed Mountain Laurel.
Hey, they are genuine briers.
Kalmia latifolia - Wikipedia
Kaywoodie’s “domestic briar” was Manzanita.
Mission Briar - Pipedia
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