The revised Pipedia article and a link from it to a separate page featuring the Barling auction are LIVE!
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Revised Barling Article And Barling Auction Pix Are Live On Pipedia
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Just now scanned the article to check the visuals (will go back for the text after posting this).
We're talking serious pipe porn, folks. No BS, no enhancement(s), no nothing EXCEPT what you WANT to see. Photos as good as photos can be made, of pipes you'll never see anywhere else.
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We're talking serious pipe porn, folks. No BS, no enhancement(s), no nothing EXCEPT what you WANT to see. Photos as good as photos can be made, of pipes you'll never see anywhere else.
CHECK IT OUT!!!
Jesse,
Generations of pipelovers to come will thank you for your efforts.
Very much appreciated
Generations of pipelovers to come will thank you for your efforts.
Very much appreciated
Thank you! Putting this together was quite a job. In order to maintain the greatest amount of detail on the original auction photography I zoomed in on the auction site's window to the maximum enlargement and took screen grabs of all of the pieces, overlapping as I went along. This resulted in about 800 screen grabs which I then pieced together to create the highest resolution version of each photograph, averaging between 7,000 and 12,000 pixels across when finished. This allowed me to make tight framings of details without it becoming pixelated or going blurry. It took close to a week to prep these photos.
Unfortunately, I couldn't upload gigantic files to be used on the Pipedia page. They had to be reduced to no more than 1000 pixels across. But while the overall photos are reduced, this did allow me to show small details at full resolution, and keep as much detail as possible in the reductions. The full resolution reconstructions are in my archive.
When I took over editing the Pipedia Barling page, my goal was to remove erroneous information, supposition, myths, and hearsay, and replace it with evidence backed information. Over the years, as new information became available I went back into the article and made revisions to information that was incorrect, based on new evidence. I was aided in no small measure by Jon Guss' contributions as well as those of Tad Gage and Ben Rapaport.
The Pipedia Barling page is as accurate as I can make it at this time, and a lot more accurate than any other Barling article that I've encountered.
The point of all of this is to provide Barling fans and collectors with useful information and to hopefully help them in building their own collections by providing answers and by rebuking fake claims that sellers like to make when pitching their wares.
Yeah I read it. But it reads as if the auction had already happened. I read that at one in the afternoon UK time. I guess that means the auction had already concluded by that time, and pipedia updated accordingly. Pretty surprising to me that all of that could have happened so quickly on such a tiny island. Ah well, if it wasn't over then, it sure is now (20:49 UK time).
For future reference, the full-res pix can be accessed directly on many sites:
https://image.invaluable.com/houseP...tions/85/789785/H1117-L400954091_original.JPG
In Firefox:
Go to the item page
Tools: "page info"
Click "Media"
Find the image url.
https://image.invaluable.com/houseP...tions/85/789785/H1117-L400954091_original.JPG
In Firefox:
Go to the item page
Tools: "page info"
Click "Media"
Find the image url.
Jeez, I could have save a LOT of time if I had known about this. I literally used the auction site's show window and maximum zoom to grab screen grabs of the visible sections and then stitched it all together. Hundreds of screen grabs.
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I only know about this because I coded my 1991-era first website by hand, stealing bits of code from other sites that I liked, creating my own...ready for it?...parasite
Not all sites will allow this, but, yeah, it can be a tremendous help.
It worked if I left clicked on the image preview and used "copy to new page" and then saved it.
Damn...
The small windows to the left of the show window on the auction site, after you select that item's page. Right click on that teeny window and select "Copy link to new page". Works great! I'm halfway through the auction! Fuck me!
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I bid on a few things, but as I'm not a merchant, skipped most of the stuff. The last thing I need is another antique unsmoked Barling set. There were two Items I really wanted, the 1929 fish shaped meer, and an 1851 sterling silver pocket tobacco box.
The meer went through the roof, topping out at about $1400 with the auction house surcharge and shipping. If anyone was buying that one to flip it I wish them luck. It's rare that a Barling meer goes for more than $400 - $500.
Nobody was interested in the 1851 pocket tobacco box, so I won that one and got a very good price on it. I especially wanted it because the interior stamping indicated that it had been part of Barling's display during the Great Exhibition of 1851. It's a magnificent piece once the tarnish has been removed.
That is utterly fantastic.
What a phenomenal piece of history to own!