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donjgiles

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rEinSTATEd

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Hi, I am fairly new to this restoring game(despite the pretentious tag name) but acquired this pipe a little while ago. I am sure it is a bull....(something), but what exactly is it? Is it a bent bulldog? Is it a Rhodesian? - can you even have a rhodesian with a square shaft? The next thing I wondered was if anybody out there recognises the few remaining letters of the makers mark? It looks like ...lord or ....ford but I cannot find anything that seems to work in the space avaiable, I even tried UV light to see if that might bring out the lost detail - it didn't, perhaps I did it wrong. Does anybody know a way of highlighting faded/worn lettering?
 

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