Is This a Lane Era Charatan?

[aquadoc]

My question is mostly about what are the desirable, good smoking Charatan pipes. There is no Lane logo on this pipe. The CP logo is on stem.

 

[mikestanley]

Does it have a double comfort stem?

Mike S.

 

[aquadoc]

How can you tell?

 

[mikestanley]

The mouthpiece at the mouth end is stepped.
Mike S.

 

[aquadoc]

No.

 

[mikestanley]

I’m not certain but if there is no shape number and no DC stem, it sounds like a pre Lane. I don’t recall when the Freehand Relief line came out.

Mike S

 

[kenbarnes]

There is no Lane logo on this pipe.

The Lane logo was only stamped on the shanks of pipes shipped to the U.S. I am sure that there are many Charatan pipes in the U.S. which were bought in London stores or the Charatan shop in Jermyn Street in the 1960-1970s as the cost of them in England was about half the price. These would not have been stamped with the L logo.

The first 'freehand' was made by Barry Jones in 1959 and I think the name 'Freehand Relief' came about in the early to mid 1960s (before this Relief was called Sandblast at Charatans).