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Sub-Brands/Seconds Made By Comoy from Pipedia
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There are actually more than that. Usually the shape numbers and COM give them away.
ashdigger, since there were so many, I supposed this might not be all of them. I was pleased to see Britannia on the list, since that is the stamp on one of my old favorites, about twenty years old, that I enjoy. But I have never seen a list even this long before, and since people are always showing up with questions about less recognizable brands, I thought I'd post what this offers, courtesy of pipedia. Retailers like to do a sort of fan dance around these brands, saying they are made by the largest pipe maker in England, so folks will think Dunhill/White Spot, or that's my cynical take on it. Why else would they say that? Why not just say Comoy, which is a good brand in its own right. The Tinder Box guy gave me this same yarn, but didn't say it was a Dunhill line, but slanted it that way. It irked me because I knew better, even though I couldn't name the manufacturer.
On reflection, I wonder if my Tinder Box St. Ives is a Comoy. I thought it might be a Chacom, but the more Comoys I see, the more it resembles them more than Chacom, of which I own two or three. My Tinder Box St. Ives is the first pipe I ever bought or owned, a smooth bent pot with an unusual vertical saddle stem that still looks fine and smokes well. It just has that Comoy look, and I see Comoy did house pipes for Tinder Box, though they don't list the St. Ives.
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Comoy made a lot of pipes for tobacconists and pipe shops that were stamped with the name of shops only.
Seconds is loosely used by Comoy. I’ve owned some pipe shop pipes and others that were absolute “1st”.
I've seen some absolutely beautiful Sunrise pipes. I'm finding that "seconds" or even THIRDS that were made by A list brands 50, 60 years ago can be worlds better than "firsts" made these days.