New Additions Coming To The Pipedia Barling Page

[sablebrush52]

We're getting close to being done. Both Scott and I were away for a week, new images of the auction pipes have been added, I've completed my revisions of the Barling article and Scott has a few last minute fixes to go. I hope that people will be pleased with the additions.

Should have the auction page and the revised main page up in a couple of days.

This is an evolving project. As images appear on other auctions I will be sending them to Scott to be added in when he has time. I sent new images last night.

 

[sablebrush52]

Since this thread was posted, new images of the pipes in the auction have been added, and I sent another batch to Scott a couple of days ago. Those will be added next week.

 

[sablebrush52]

When I made this post I promised a new article from Jon Guss on Nathan Nichols, Barling’s US distributor, and the namesake for the Nichols numbers that were stamped onto their pipes intended for the US market.

The publication was delayed, but I am pleased to announce that the article is now available on the Pipedia Barling page!

As with all of Jon’s articles, it is beautifully written and meticulously researched.

Here’s the direct link:

https://pipedia.org/images/5/54/The_Nichols_Story.pdf

I hope that you enjoy reading it.

There will also be new images of Barling pipes from the Laxey Pipe factory museum collection coming in the next few days.

 

[jguss]

One of the twelve Barling nerds...

That’s not so bad. If that other J-guy made do with twelve followers so can Jesse.

 

[jguss]

mis information gets regurgitated as fact.

Absolutely true, even before search engines existed. There seems to be a kind of Gresham’s Law at work, where bad information drives out good. Falsehoods are like vampires (or Abe Vigoda); notoriously hard to kill.