Old Vic Pipe

[frennchy11]

I picked up a pipe the other day and on the stem it says Old Vic burl grain. Does anyone know anything about these pipes?

 

[nsfisher]

a picture is worth a thousand words mate

 

[frennchy11]

Here you go hope it helps

 

[bigvan]

Lorenzo has an Old Vic line. Where'd you get it? Didn't the seller tell you anything?

 

[frennchy11]

It was a little old lady that sold them to me. She told me they belonged to her father. My guess is that it is pretty old!

 

[pentangle]

don't think it's a Lorenzo even he produced pipes under that name in 70's

 

[frennchy11]

Hmmmm well all i have found out about Old Vic is that most are estate pipes and they are made in Italy. It might be from the company Master Craft.

 

[ejames]

Mastercraft didn't make pipes.They had all their pipes made by other companies,a lot of them were imported.Knarly looking pipe!

 

[frennchy11]

Thanks for the info! I'm really looking forward to fixing it up and smoking it! :puffpipe:

 

[nsfisher]

lorenzo maybe so , and mastercraft bought shalom in 1941, not sure if it was made by them or lorenzo but i am almost sure it was lorenzo. I done alot of research on my mastercraft pipe cause i was curious. But im still not 100% sure
http://www.pipephil.eu/logos/en/logo-o.html

 

[frennchy11]

I was thinking it could be a Lorenzo but the one thing that throws me off a bit is that a typical Old Vic Lorenzo stamp has a hyphen between Old vic and mine doesnt. Think this is just an earlier stamp? Or even later?