Getting ready to watch the broadcast of UFC Fight Night 259, Diego Lopes vs. Jean Silva (also known as Noche UFC 3 and UFC on ESPN+ 117), taking place at the Frost Bank Center in San Antonio, Texas. Having Newminster No. 400 Superior Navy Flake in a Comoy’s Specimen Freehand (possibly carved by Horry Jameson in the 1960s or 1970s; this style of foot was a design device he often used on GBD Unique pipes—but potentially attributing this pipe to him would depend on when this pipe was made—the logo in the stem is a “three-piece C,” which dates the pipe no later than the ’80s). It has the numbers 77 008 stamped on the right side of the shank—I’m not sure if this is a model number, date number, or serial number (or combo). I suspect the original tenon was modified at some point to the current 9mm filter tenon, so there’s no way of establishing a date range based on the original tenon shape.
