I found this Sasieni at the NYC Pipe show yesterday and picked it up for a song. At home, I examined the nomenclature with a lighted 40x loupe and was puzzled not to find the name of an English town. The pipe is stamped "Four Dot" and "London Made". So I new it was a family-era pipe made between '46 and '79. There is some faint stamping that under magnification was revealed as "Viscount Lascelles" with a strong "XS". The pipe looked like an easy restoration and it was. The Stephen Smith article on Sasieni describes the Viscount Lascelles as rare and I found Neill Archer Roan wrote an essay on one in his collection, as his first entry on the Passion for Pipes blog.
It wasn't a challenging restoration, but here's the article on the Reborn Pipes blog and some photos.
http://rebornpipes.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/sasieni-viscount-lascelles-xs-restoration/
It wasn't a challenging restoration, but here's the article on the Reborn Pipes blog and some photos.
http://rebornpipes.wordpress.com/2014/03/09/sasieni-viscount-lascelles-xs-restoration/