B.C in a horizontal diamond stamped on the shank (unknown maker to me and to everyone else I've asked) /
E.I over G.I over H.J.I stamped on the mount with marks for London 1888
Edward Inderwick, George Inderwick, Henry John Inderwick - small workers
(thanks to
@greeneyes for this information)
INDERWICK AND Co., 45 Carnaby Street, W. London
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Left Photo © Mario de Biasi/Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images (1966)
Right photo courtesy Kosmo Vinyl
for the image (1973)
No. 45 Carnaby Street today
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Inderwick & Co - the Pipes & Tobacco Specialist - was founded in 1797 by John Inderwick and was one of the earliest tobacconists in London. Their original shop was located on Wardour Street and their warehouse was situated 58 Prince's St, Leicester Square.
When they decided to sell their own brand of pipe they got some of the top pipe makers like Comoys to make them.
They incorporated on the 22nd October 1934 and the company was finally wound up in early 2000 and the shop at 45, Carnaby Street closed its doors as one of the last of the specialist pipe and pipe tobacco shops in the area.
They may have seemed out of place in the midst of the Carnaby St pop explosion but stayed put nevertheless, resisting several tempting offers on their lease throughout this period. The pop revolution actually enhanced their business rather than threaten it as curious Carnaby Street shoppers spilled off the busy pavement and ventured inside to buy their specialist tobacco blends, cigarettes and the long clay Churchwardens, Corncobs and Meerschaum pipes which they'd been selling for 170 years.
(Inderwicks was not one of my regular haunts but RIP the other nearby pipe shops I used to visit on a weekly basis - Charatan and Astleys in Jermyn Street, Sullivan Powell and H. Simmons in The Burlington Arcade, Fribourg & Treyer in The Haymarket, Bewlays in Piccadilly and G. Smith & Sons in Charing Cross Road)
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+ H. Simmons DOWN THE ROAD MIXTURE:-
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