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A trademark appears in this survey only if it places or has placed a logo, a symbol, an acronym on its pipe stems. (one or several letters, one or several dots, a geometrical pattern, a crown etc...). In other words, you'll not find in this database brands or artisans only stamping shanks.
Nevertheless a picture of the markings stamped on wood and a whole view of the pipe generally come along with the logo picture. They are to reinforce and/or prove the logo attachment to the brand.
Dunhill is the exception: a part of this site focuses on the complex markings of this brand from its creation until nowadays and may be a useful tool for Dunhill pipe dating.
The logo on the stem of a pipe is an element to be considered when identifying a trademark and manufacture period. Its lack may indicate a replacement stem and change the value of a pipe.
Most sites cataloguing pipe logos propose drawn reproductions. A photographic representation, even if not as precise as a drawing, has the advantage to be closer to reality.
Some advantages of photographic pictures:
- They reproduce effects of matter (wood, metal, mother of pearl...) transparency or shimmer.
- They inform of the plumpness of the stem and relative size of logo compared to stem diameter.
- They make aware of logo position compared to stem-shank junction.
- They allow a faithfully restitution of the logos time evolution (cf. Charatan, Sasieni)
The brands are sorted alphabetically in the same way Jose Manuel Lopes does in his book. Trademarks not reported by J.M. Manuel are displayed with my own logic.
Index page allows
- alphabetical access
- access by symbol type
- access by brand's country
- Furthermore this page presents each month a brand selected by the author for its logo's originality
The symbol typology is typical to this work.
Conversely, given a trademark, it is possible to accede to the other trademarks which adopt or have adopted the same kind of sign on stem or from the same country
Ex: 
etc..., 
etc...
The lack of a trademark in this survey may have two reasons:
- The brand or the artisan does not stamp any logo on the stems.
- The author hasn't yet found any correct logo picture.
To select pictures, criteria apply with decreasing importance like this:
- Sharpness and high resolution of logo picture.
- Availability of logo AND stampings pictures for a unique pipe.(*)
- Wear of the engraving.
- Inconvenience due to reflections which may hide information.
- Angle of snapshoot, particularly when volume and relief are important.
(*) The icon 
indicates logo and stamping pictures coming from two different pipes.
The same criteria apply when updating the site. This is done either to improve illustration quality (
) or to complete lacking trademarks ( 
).
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