Show Off Your Kaywoodie Pipes

[paulfg]

Roughly sixties era.

many thanks

 

[Milburniv]

All I know about this pipe is, it’s beautiful and what’s written on it.

Kaywoodie Drinkless Imported Briar
118

 

[paulfg]

smoked the 50B and liked it so much I bought another Kaywoodie.
This time a Super Grain 5131C that I believe is from the 1930.s

 

[bluegrassbrian]

Here’s a Drinkless Thorn Push Stem and Gold Foil Clover

Have you seen the one on eBay where the gold foil is 9/10 missing and the seller is asking like $500?

 

[ashdigger]

Have you seen the one on eBay where the gold foil is 9/10 missing and the seller is asking like $500?

No, but it doesn’t surprise me. I had five gold foil pipes. Sold four to one collector for $350 each. The one I kept I paid $50 for. And it the rarest of the bunch.

 

[bluegrassbrian]

No, but it doesn’t surprise me. I had five gold foil pipes. Sold four to one collector for $350 each. The one I kept I paid $50 for. And it the rarest of the bunch.

I had a truly amazing Dorset Knotty shape 05 with near perfect ring grain. I ended up using it in a trade with a Kaywoodie lover named Fletch Hiner. One of the few pipes I've let go that I wish I still had.

 

[crashthegrey]

All I know about this pipe is, it’s beautiful and what’s written on it.

Kaywoodie Drinkless Imported Briar
118

This was made from 1972 to 1980 when they moved factories.

 

[crashthegrey]

smoked the 50B and liked it so much I bought another Kaywoodie.
This time a Super Grain 5131C that I believe is from the 1930.sView attachment 153319
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This is likely from the late thirties or 1940. That shape does not show up until the catalog from 1939, so probably one of the last four digit shapes produced.

 

[Milburniv]

This was made from 1972 to 1980 when they moved factories.

Thank you! I wish it didn’t have a stinger, I promised the wife I’d only smoke with filters. Oh well. At least I have that as a model of something to look for.

 

[crashthegrey]

Thank you! I wish it didn’t have a stinger, I promised the wife I’d only smoke with filters. Oh well. At least I have that as a model of something to look for.

Filters really only remove moisture, which the stinger also does. So it is like a filter of sorts...

 

[Perimeter_Road]

Here’s a kaywoodie rock ambera I found recently at an antique store in California gold country

 

[paulfg]

This is likely from the late thirties or 1940. That shape does not show up until the catalog from 1939, so probably one of the last four digit shapes produced.

yeah seller stated late 1930s and there is an article in pipephil stating 1935-38 because of the imported briar stamping.i dont know how accurate pipephil is

Kaywoodie series from L to Z -- Pipes : Logos & Markings

www.pipephil.eu

see entry under straight grain

 

[crashthegrey]

yeah seller stated late 1930s and there is an article in pipephil stating 1935-38 because of the imported briar stamping.i dont know how accurate pipephil is

Kaywoodie series from L to Z -- Pipes : Logos & Markings

www.pipephil.eu

see entry under straight grain

Nothing is 100% accurate. I talk to Bill all the time, who has done the most research. Stamps and stingers defy our information. In a factory old stummels get finished later and all kinds of things happen. The best I can pinpoint is late thirties into 1940, but it is simply an educated guess taking all data about the pipe in.

 

[Perimeter_Road]

Kaywoodie Unique

 

[captainsousie]

Here's most of my collection. I'll probably split it into multiple posts but we'll see. I went from a Kaywoodie hater (after a late-model Red Root that smoked terribly) to a fan after getting a couple pretty nice ones. Some of these are pretty hard to find.

Sorry for the pic quality. If I have time I'll do better later.

Here's a Super Grain Chesterfield. Haven't had the chance to clean or smoke it but I'm looking forward to it.


Next, a pair of unsmoked ones. A 4-digit Super Grain bulldog and a Ninety-Fiver Hungarian.



Next we have...well, I just looked at the photos and they suck so badly I may have to re-do them. Back in a jiff.

 

[captainsousie]

Alright. Back with better pics. This set is all the odd-ones out.

Here's a couple oddities. A Magnum and a Filtronic. The magnum is a later one and the Filtronic actually smokes pretty well.



Next up, a couple Yello-Boles. The top one is unsmoked and the cigar holder is just funky.



Next on the KB&B roster is...a Tudor. The stinger is an odd one, especially with the older mark on the stem.



And another KB&B oddity. Can't read it but it's interesting.

 

[captainsousie]

Set 3 is all the old ones. These are my earliest examples.

The OG...


A little guy...


And a really cool one. An early arched logo Kaywoodie churchwarden with a shape code of 4236.

 

[captainsousie]

And finally, the "new" production ones.

Here's a couple of Christmas pipes. 2012 and 2013


Next, a CORPS 2006 canadian.



And last for this group...a POY 2005. This thing is truly huge...but it's light enough to clench.

 

[captainsousie]

And finally (unless I mislaid some and then there will be more) here is my calabash. This 'woodiebash is also huge and I love the thing.

 

[NC TX ID pipeman]

Mine are mostly Super grain Kaywoodies,One Flame grain meerschaum lined ..straight apple is shape 42 and meerschaum lined is shape 55...One hand made from 40s without shape #......Oom paul ,straight billiard and straight bulldog are 4 digits numbers(all Super grains)...Missing is Kaywoodie 500 from 60s...