I had always held, based on the duration of British design registrations, that the year would be somewhere around 1949-50. But @jguss found ads from 1951 that showed a change from REG'd Design to Barling Design occurring in early 1951. The Guinea Grain line of pipes began in 1953 or thereabouts ( I don't have my materials handy so I can't give you the precise year at the moment) so 1950's thru 1962 would be the period for that one. They're beautiful.
Very nice, but why unsmoked ?
Thank you Sir!I wish they still make them the way they used to..amazingly light but thick walls and wood feels so hard it almost rings like a bell...still lathe marks inside the bowls..
Maybe your wife should dump you...
Why not? I have a half dozen unsmoked Barlings, including this 1907 companion set:
No worries !Yep unsmoked for all that time is a shame...I really want to smoke at least one of them but I have been told that value would go down if I smoke them and planning to sell them sometimes in a future so holding myself real hard not to light them up...I got about 125 other pipes which I smoke so thats the story....
Well said!!This set make my day.....Maybe your wife should dump you...
Why not? I have a half dozen unsmoked Barlings, including this 1907 companion set:
Which I have neither need nor desire to smoke. I like that they're exactly as they were when they left the factory, like little time machines. I'm primarily a pipe smoker, so I don't go out of my way to buy unsmoked vintage pipes. These were a rare exception. The other unsmoked Barlings were not advertised as such, so I didn't pay an insane premium for them. Once a match has been applied, they're just another old pipe. Besides, I have plenty of vintage pipes that I do smoke and they all smoke like pipes.
The first match costs between 35% and 50% of market value. If they have their original boxes and papers that adds to the collectible value. BTW, if you have the original box you can date the pipe to a 5 year period.
I wonder why she still keeps me - certainly not for my looks nor money ?Maybe your wife should dump you...
Why not? I have a half dozen unsmoked Barlings, including this 1907 companion set:
Which I have neither need nor desire to smoke. I like that they're exactly as they were when they left the factory, like little time machines. I'm primarily a pipe smoker, so I don't go out of my way to buy unsmoked vintage pipes. These were a rare exception. The other unsmoked Barlings were not advertised as such, so I didn't pay an insane premium for them. Once a match has been applied, they're just another old pipe. Besides, I have plenty of vintage pipes that I do smoke and they all smoke like pipes.
I you do decide to smoke them, be very, very careful. Unsmoked pipes of that vintage can crack on the first smoke. Have the chambers coated with a thin layer of silicate mixed with charcoal powder to act as an insulator. Slow smoke, as in a few sips and set it down, relight, a few sips and set it down, relight, etc, for the first five or more bowls, until you have an insulation layer built up. Then continue to smoke them gently.
Quite expensive match.... So better keep them matches locked in a safe at least a mile away from them Barlings....I wish to have a boxes.It would be nice..so each period got a different box?Sometimes surprices me how much collectors pay for an extra box..Just bought a knife I wanted for decades made in my birth year and paid 350$ less than same knife with a box!!!Same with gun boxes specially for older guns like Colts etc.
Inside the lid of the box, Barling affixed a label with a guarantee, which also stated how long the company had been in business. This label was updated every 5 years.
For those who bypassed the OP: This was in 2013! Long live Barling!
That beautiful pipe really picqued my interest in old Britwoods, and Barlings in particular.
I finally landed one of my “white whales” a few weeks ago.
