Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
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It's kind of a Toulouse-Lautrec pipe. The stem doesn't support the pipe. Way too short.
Why does the seller say it's a great restoration project? I didn't see any flaws.
Robinson's had a store in Singapore? I remember being taken to Robinson's here in Los Angeles, a high end department store, and have a Comoy pipe stamped with the Robinson's stamp. Nice store, but the carriage trade went to Bullocks Wilshire, an Art Deco masterpiece which served a high tea every Sunday.
Looking at their Wikipedia entries, the Singapore and LA Robinsons appear unrelated. Robinson's was very much part of the colonial history of Singapore and Malaysia, then a single colony whose adminstrative center was Singapore. Before and after WWII, Malaysia was the largest producer of tin and rubber in the world and Singapore was the port where they shipped from. Singapore was also Britain's largest naval base east of Suez. The first housing estates in my town were built to house Brit military personnel (until they disappeared seemingly overnight in the early 70s when they withdrew from the area). So, the Brits controlled a great deal of wealth and resources there and Robinson's was where they spent their money. The Arabs later bought Robinson's and from what I can tell it may not have survived this pandemic.
I wonder which Robinson's your Comoy's is from.
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I picked one up on the bay a couple of yeas ago and the listing only showed this side of the pipe
I was hoping for a Comoy's COM stamp on the other side...
But as fate had it no shape number and the Made In England. I am pleased with the pipe as a smoker and see not a fill or sand pit with a quality stem.
I was hoping for a Comoy's COM stamp on the other side...
But as fate had it no shape number and the Made In England. I am pleased with the pipe as a smoker and see not a fill or sand pit with a quality stem.
This was exactly my question too. He said he had it from an auction perhaps he meant, it was restored before he got it. One can only see the upper part of its chamber (looks as if unsmoked) but a Charatan Selected would'nt have flaws inside. So in short, I don'nt know. In case I had bid on it I would've asked the seller.
This seller has some very interesting, old GBD's listed. The auction description says they were from the estate of a former Senior executive with GBD in the 1920's to 1950s.
This one completed, with a 1921 hallmark:
This one completed, with a 1921 hallmark:
Refurbished Super 1921 "GBD XTRA Prehistoric" Estate Pipe London 9ct .375 Gold. | eBay
The bowl shows that it has been lightly smoked and has a healthy thin layer of carbon lining it. The"Prehistoric" range of pipes was introduced in the 1920s, they were "a deeply sandblasted black pipe that still carried the small GBD XTRA stamp".
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Hah! "The bowl shows it has been lightly smoked". What a crock.
The bowl shows it has been reamed.
The bowl shows it has been reamed.
The American version, since the stamp is in the same logo font as the store.
Smoked hot as well. Looking at the other pipes up for auction by this seller these appear to be unstamped, so either rejects or "whatsis". The few that were smoked show signs of distress, the unsmoked ones look pretty good. This GBD executive knew less about how to smoke a pipe than does a penguin.
If these are the ones leftover from his estate, can you imagine the ones that didn't make it? I imagine he'd laugh loudly at the antics of today's "pipe forum" and the care we lavish on our pipes.
Aw man....heartbreak. I can't read the hallmark on this Surbrug, but it's probably from the late 20's to 30's. A steal at $100 except for....
Actually probably easy to plug and everything else looks solid.
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Actually probably easy to plug and everything else looks solid.
Carb hole? I've never seen anything like this done to a Briar pipe.Aw man....heartbreak. I can't read the hallmark on this Surbrug, but it's probably from the late 20's to 30's. A steal at $100 except for....
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Actually probably easy to plug and everything else looks solid.
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That's a feature... You can blow the moisture out quick as a whistle. No fuss, no muss.
That's very interesting. Do you happen to know who popularized this feature? I'd be interested in seeing other examples of this.
That was a joke...
I can just see some pipe “restorer”... “Hmmm, if I just chuck a bit in my cordless, I can get this plugged mortise knocked out in no time...”