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I just finished up this restoration of a John's Pipe Shop model Silver Mount. If you are not familier with John's Pipe Shop, here is some information from Pipedia;
"John’s Pipe Shop from Los Angeles was open for decades, starting in 1908 and looks like into the 1980’s or a little longer. They had pipes made for them by European companies, one of which is Comoy’s for sure. As seen on their matchbook cover ad their “Exclusive Brands” included Wilshire, Rosemore, Extra, Fairmont, Silvermont and Avalon. There were two shops, one at 524-524 1/2 S. Spring St. in the heart of downtown early Los Angeles, and the other at 6725 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood 28, Calif. I’ve found old matchbook covers with that info and a photo of their horse drawn carriage with a large pipe bowl on the back as an advertisement. The photo was from the 1900-1929 timeframe. " The whole article can be found at http://pipedia.org/wiki/John's_Pipe_Shop
This pipe was in not too bad shape, but the inside of the stem and shank were extremely filthy. I'm really happy how this one turned out. I am either going to sell this one to buy more pipes to send to military serving abroad, or maybe tone of them will just be lucky enough to receive this one.
Wes
www.rebuiltbriars.com
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I just finished up this restoration of a John's Pipe Shop model Silver Mount. If you are not familier with John's Pipe Shop, here is some information from Pipedia;
"John’s Pipe Shop from Los Angeles was open for decades, starting in 1908 and looks like into the 1980’s or a little longer. They had pipes made for them by European companies, one of which is Comoy’s for sure. As seen on their matchbook cover ad their “Exclusive Brands” included Wilshire, Rosemore, Extra, Fairmont, Silvermont and Avalon. There were two shops, one at 524-524 1/2 S. Spring St. in the heart of downtown early Los Angeles, and the other at 6725 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood 28, Calif. I’ve found old matchbook covers with that info and a photo of their horse drawn carriage with a large pipe bowl on the back as an advertisement. The photo was from the 1900-1929 timeframe. " The whole article can be found at http://pipedia.org/wiki/John's_Pipe_Shop
This pipe was in not too bad shape, but the inside of the stem and shank were extremely filthy. I'm really happy how this one turned out. I am either going to sell this one to buy more pipes to send to military serving abroad, or maybe tone of them will just be lucky enough to receive this one.
Wes
www.rebuiltbriars.com
BEFORE
AFTER
