I'm not really sure of the etiquette of when to post in a forum. Im probable breaking etiquette now. If I am,, I apologize. But I do have a question or questions. I picked up a couple Josts pipes. One appears to be Comoy made, it has the football made in England stamp on the briar and a J on the stem. It looks to be well taken care of, it's a nice little apple shape sitter with a saddle stem. The other is a large, thick acorn shape and a quarter bent stem. Stem has the J, briar just says Imported Briar. I would like to find out if it's a Harvey Raspberry pipe, and I'd like to find out roughly or exactly the white color used on the J imprint. I've been reading a lot about Jost pipes and 1: it's a wicked cool story and 2: the info all seems really circular.
I've been searching the interweb up and down and any particulars of Josts is really hard to pin down.