▲ Venere pipes with two dots are the best of Ardor's production: About one pipe among 250-300.

 

Probably a brand of Reiss-Premier Co

 

Artisan: K. Bittner

 

Other Briarcraft second with two dots: Arcadian

Pipes with two dots on the stem correspond to the 2xx numbered shapes (200 series).

◊ Brio High Class Briar Made in Spain ◊
Brand from Ibéricas de Pipas

▲  A dot on each side of the stem

Brand distributed by Harry J. Gorfinkel (Wilczak & Colwell, op. cit.)

Artisan: Ettore (?) Carcano
Address (?): via IV novembre, 27
21026 Gavirate (VA)

Artisan: Carlos Royo Porta
Production: ~ 30 pipes/year

Probably a brand of Reiss-Premier Co

Production: About 50 freehand pipes/year

 

Demuth's Tobacco Shop is still (2010) in the original building, 114 E. King St., where the company started 1770 in Lancaster (Pennsylvania). In 1986, the shop was sold by Demuth family member Dorothea Demuth to the Demuth Foundation.

Do not confuse this tobacconist label with the William Demuth Pipe Company (WDC).

Note: Lancaster County is the place where the first sizable Amish group arrived about 1720 - 1730.

A brand of Reiss-Premier Co

Artisan: Pavel Hodula

 

▲ Maybe an early pipe from Kapp & Peterson's workshops

▲ Pipe stamped as a LHS "Barrister" line.
See also Barrister as a LHS second brand.

LHS: L&H Stern
LHS second: London Royal
See also: Barrister

▲ Two small red squares: one on the shank the other on the stem to align them.

Brand created in 2007 by Luca di Piazza (Neatpipes). Luca designs the pipes which are usualy crafted by Radice. In 2009 he begins to collaborate with Greg Pease (USA) to design a Pease/DiPiazza serie of chubby pipes.

▲ Made by Tonino Jacono

This pipe may be from The Manhattan Briar Pipe Co. Other "Manhattan" brands are also mentioned to be of English origin (see J.M. Lopes, op. cit. p.167 and Wilczak & Colwell, op. cit. p.69).

Artisan: Phil DeFant

two dots middle of stem

▲ Pipe carved about 1995 for Carlo Lodi, the president of the Pipa Club Italia.

Logo: two dots transversely arranged on a lucite stem.
This pipe has two airways drilled into the stem. Other "twin bore" pipes: Grand Master, Kaywoodie Durobit, Leonard's

Production: ~ 1800 pipes/year

 

Artisan: Michail Revagin

Brand of the Ronson Corp. known for its lighters
Others lighter brands having distributed pipes: Flamidor , Myon, S.T. Dupont, Silver Match

▲ Pre-transition, Two dot, 1961 - 1979

▲ The Non Pareil line is stamped with a 3 or a 4 digits shape code which is an exception to Savinelli's routine 3 digits shape code. (see shape chart document)

Distibutor for Croci in Spain. Symetric logo: bar & two dots, one on each side

Artisan: Trever Talbert. His comments on these pipe markings:
"There was a brief period (Ed. note: about 2006) when I was marking the stem of each "Ligne Bretagne" with a number of liquid metal dots equal to its grade - a grade 2 got 2 dots, etc.  It turned out to be too costly in material and labor and bother, so I stopped it after perhaps six months.  So, there are a few pipes out there with stem logos, but not many."

Artisan: Gunnar Weber-Prada working in Los Angeles CA (2009).
The 5 digit number is the zip code of manufacture location.
The 3 digit number is increased by 1 for each new pipe carved.
Grading: 4 levels (ascending): Cu (Cupper), Ag (Silver), Au (Gold) and Pt (Platinium).
Each of the levels has three stages represented by 1-3 dots of that metal inlaid into the stem.

 

Poul Winsløw used to work for the Preben Holm pipe studio since the 1970’s until he estabished on his own in 1985.
Production: ~ 3000 pipes/year
See also: Crown