Portland Pipe

[tuold]

Here's an interesting pipe. It's made by the Portland Pipe Company in England which went out of business around 1960. (1960 seems to be the Great Extinction Event year for pipe manufacturing) Pipephil.eu says that corporate era Barling picked up some of Portland's brands and made them for awhile. It could be a Portland make or a Barling made, I suppose. At any rate, I like the sharp lines, the grain and the fine fit and trim. Smokes great,

Although this pipe was crafted in Italy, Wilczak & Colwell (op. cit.) and J.M. Lopes (op. cit.) both refer to an English origin of this brand: Portland Pipe Co. After closing down of this company Barling produced some of its brands.

See also Portland by BB&S

 

[jguss]

While not entirely clear to me, I think the relationship between Barling and the Portland Pipe Co goes back at least as far as the late 1930s. My belief is that the Portland Pipe Co, while a separate legal entity, was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barling, and used by it as a vehicle to dispose of "seconds" unworthy of the Barling name. The entity was dissolved circa 1962 (perhaps as an artifact of the various transitional events taking place around that time), but many of the various Portland models apparently continued to be produced and sold directly by Barling itself.

 

[jensen]

Years back we had John Peel pipes here in Denmark.We took them as Barling seconds.

I have here a sandblasted shape 814 stamped John Peel Special and A Portland Pipe

Made wholly in England.

JP in a triangel drystamping on the stem which are the Sasieni Fantail style.

I have 4 or 5 of those sandblasts,very good pipes to smoke.
I also have had a smooth one which I gave to a freind in Norway as the pipe were stamped

"Myhre" a tobacconist in Oslo

 

[mawnansmiff]

I have a Portland pot that came in a batch of estates. Fully refurbished and cleansed it turned out to be a fantastic smoker.
Regards,
Jay.

 

[tuold]

I recently found another Portland pipe on Ebay. This one is a gigantic "Dearborn" The Medico is shown for scale.

 

[snagstangl]

What does the stem/bit opening look like?

 

[tuold]

What does the stem/bit opening look like?

It's a standard slot opening. When do you think it was made, 1960s?