Updated: Nov 06, 2013
Weaver
A. Bruce
▲ (Underside)
BAW
Vepres Tubuli Fumantibus
▲ A translation for the Latin phrase "Vepres Tubuli Fumantibus" would be "Briar Pipes for Smoking" (Vepres = bushes, thicket)
Artisan: Bruce A. Weaver was during 20 years a Dunhill pipes collector before he started to craft his own pipes.
Markings: the pipes are stamped with the maker's initials "BAW" and the year of production.
Grading: none
See also: Medici
▲ Weber, Filter Smoke
▲ Weber, Deep Grain
▲ Weber, Silvergrain
▲ 15598 : This pipe is the 155th pipe that Steve Weiner had carved in 1998.
Artisan: Steve Weiner († 2002)
Production: ~ 200-250 pipes/year in 2002
Weingott
▲ (Left side)
Weingott
-London-
(On band)
S.W & SN
[ n] [Lion passant] [leopard head]
▲ The band is stamped with London hallmarks (Leopard head).The date letter seems to be a "n" which would bring this pipe back to 1908.
▲ (Left side)
Weingott
-London-
(On band)
S.W & SN
[Anchor] [Lion passant] [n]
▲ The siver band is stamped with Birmingham hallmarks (Anchor mark). The [n] letter refers in this case to 1912.
▲ (Left side)
The Weingott Pipe
▲ Weigott's post WWII pipe
Weingott is a former Londoner brand from Samuel Weingott & Son. The family sold the brand in the 1930s. After different owners, Cadogan bought the brand in 1980 and discontinued it definitively later.
Artisan : Fritz Weller (born 1930 in Würzburg) and optician by training, started making pipes when he was 66 after some decades of observation and experience as sales representative for the Oldenkott brand.
Grading: none
Production (2007): 15 pipes/year at the most.
▲ Wembley, Made in France, 641 Rusticated pipe
▲ (Underside) Wengholt, Designer, Straight Grain
Hand Made In Denmark, G. M5
▲ (Underside) Wengholt, Unique Hand Made In Denmark, 3 (encircled)
▲ (Underside) Wenko, St Claude, Real Briar, 3113
Same logo and same rusticated finish:
Arabesque
Werner Bürmann
▲ (Left side) WB 712
▲ This pipe has a relief logo on its stem, a technic initiated by Rainer Barbi. Some of the pipes bear a white engraved WB logo on their stem.
Artisan: Werner Bürmann († June 2012)
▲ Hand Made, Wessex, France ▲
▲ (Underside)
Tim West
Pipe, 2
Artisan: Tim West went fulltime pipe maker in 1975.
Line names: "Best of the West", "Old West"
Dating: The number on the shank corresponds to the last digit of the manufacture year.
▲ Westminister Meerschaumlined France
▲ Westminster Made in England Tower bridge logo ▲
▲ (Left side) Westminster, de Luxe, 41 f
▲ See also (same logo):
Empire
It is not established the pipe with the Tower Bridge logo is from the same maker as the one with the sun logo.
Westminster is a brand either from Comoy or from John Redman Ltd.
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