Self-Isolation Restorations - 1919 BBB
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Thanks for all the pics! Great to know where it sits in the BBB line. So glad I picked her up. The online pics were pretty poor quality but I couldn’t resist the shape and once I saw the faint outline of L.B that was visible on the band, I knew I would regret not pulling the trigger...Isaac, we may have our work cut out for us trying collect the rest of them. Haha
Oh that little bulldog with the amber stem and case has me drooling!!!
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Fascinating thread by way of pipe history. Great detective work!
Funny enough, the index to the catalogue has an entry for:
"'Golf' or 'Chubby' pipes....."
I'll post the Chubby pipes later, today. There's 3 or 4 pages of those as well. I don't know if Golfer and Chubby are really the same thing - I mean, this is just how they're marketed in the catalogue as far as I can tell. They're not marked in any way on the pipes themselves.
Beyond the "Own Make" designation, I think the only pipes marked in a special way are the 'Glokar' pipes, which have a P-lip style of button. (And they're marked only on the silver band or on the rubber stem.)
"'Golf' or 'Chubby' pipes....."
I'll post the Chubby pipes later, today. There's 3 or 4 pages of those as well. I don't know if Golfer and Chubby are really the same thing - I mean, this is just how they're marketed in the catalogue as far as I can tell. They're not marked in any way on the pipes themselves.
Beyond the "Own Make" designation, I think the only pipes marked in a special way are the 'Glokar' pipes, which have a P-lip style of button. (And they're marked only on the silver band or on the rubber stem.)
It will be interesting to see if the chubby range also have the ‘push’ vulcanite stem
Great stuff! It seems the golfer series were all rusticated. Can't wait to see the others.
As a golfer of sorts, the shorter and stockier the pipe, the less likely it's to get broken, stuffing it in a pocket for a shot, for example.
I can't imagine they didn't market a shooter's series.
As a golfer of sorts, the shorter and stockier the pipe, the less likely it's to get broken, stuffing it in a pocket for a shot, for example.
I can't imagine they didn't market a shooter's series.
If this is the case, then potentially it is not a golfer pipe as it has a smooth finish
Actually, they're all smooth -- what you're seeing is just how the illustrator depicts grain patterns on smooth pipes. I don't believe BBB made sandblasted pipes, even, until the late 1910s or early 1920s.
Join the club...it appears tobacco is a gateway drug to a pipe collecting addiction.
Yes, indeed. My membership in the PAD club was on hiatus until I saw "the golfer". Damn!! 
This looks like it might be one.(a "golfer" line)
I'm not buying it, but would perhaps bid if the dude changes his "offer".
LINK to eBay "Buy it Now". BBB with amber stem.
I'm not buying it, but would perhaps bid if the dude changes his "offer".
LINK to eBay "Buy it Now". BBB with amber stem.
You could be right. Cool pipe, so-so shape.
PSA: don't buy it until you see a pic of the stem unscrewed - sometimes they're glued into the stummel!
Man, I would never have posted the pics if I knew it would have caused you both trouble ?
On a plus side, all this banter has earned me enough posts to no longer be a new member. Wahoo lurk to a junior in a month. Might go play a round with the chubby golfer now
Some of the folks I play golf with are a tad chubby. But for the most part, we are a fit, if aging, group of fellas.
Ahi- Not to worry. You have stoked a long dormant (well, three months) fire, and I just have to have a "golfer".
Ahi- Not to worry. You have stoked a long dormant (well, three months) fire, and I just have to have a "golfer".
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