Parker Jockey Club Shape 42 Zulu

[puffermark]

A (rare-ish) find on a local auction site. "Parker" stamp was pretty much toast, but not too shabby for the price (10$) and cleaned up kinda nice. Looks like a nice open draw, so should smoke OK too.

 

[haparnold]

Wow! That's a really great execution of the Zulu shape (one of my favorites).

 

[jpmcwjr]

Great value. Is Jockey Club a line of Parker? Do they themselves call it a Zulu?

 

[mso489]

Whatever they call it, I think it's a zulu. I have one Parker, a compact cherrywood shape (poker), slightly bent. It did have a minor issue of stain in the shank, but this faded over time. It's a nice light weight with plenty of bowl, and of course a sitter. It's rusticated and black finish, not quite a pocket pipe with the cylindrical bowl with its sitter edges, but portable. English pipes, non-Dunhills, are often good quality -- I have the Parker and a Britannia. I think Hardcastle are good, or so I've heard, though they went through a difficult phase, maybe in the 1990's, when they went low-end; probably they smoked great, but they looked inexpensive.