I thank you for all the kind words. I'm pleased my reviews are of help to you.Just have to thank you once again for your pipe reviews. Being relatively new to the community, I didn't know them, but I do now! Always very helpful. Very nice pipe too!
John Lawitske informed me that this is a shape 29 with a finish prefix of 2… The ‘S’ without a crown narrows the date down to 1950-55. I had no idea. It’s one of my favorite pipes. I think I paid $35-40 for it several years ago.2011 Solani 656 Aged Burley in a Stanwell Reg’d 229 billiard. This shape predates the current bent Brandy 229 shape. I’m guessing this would be from sometime between 1948 to the early 1960’s. It has a long aluminum tube in the stem, a practice that had died out by the mid 60’s.
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Nice, I’m a half-bowl shy of finishing my first tin of this and plan on opening another immediately!View attachment 223326
Iced coffee to go with Hiking in this Peterson.