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 (Left side) Chairman, Selected Briar
 (Right side) Mauro Armellini
After Mauro Armellini passed (2004), his daughter, Vilma Armellini, answered for the brand's destiny.
Seconds: Mauro, Converti

Ceinture de chasteté Ceinture de chasteté

Cerbère Cerbère

 

  Beldor De Luxe

Broadcaster

 USA
  Broadcaster, Selected Briar
Brand of the Penn Tobacco Company. The pipes were manufactured for Penn by Henry Leonard & Thomas
See also: Bruce Peters, Vox Pop, Royalton

Charatan

Underboar
 England
 

 

 (Left side) UNDERBOAR REG. NO 682372, 120
(Right side) CHARATAN'S MAKE LONDON.ENGLAND
The Underboar line has been made for a period from the 1920s to WWII. Because of the system equipping these pipes, Charatan gave it the catchphrase "the pipe that cleans itself". (See document)
 
  Craft Briar
According to Michael Lindner, "Craft Briar" was an early label used by Julius Vesz.

Daniel Jud

 Switzerland
  D. Jud, Handgemacht, Erlen CH, 07 04
Artisan: Daniel Jud, Doctor of medecine.
Other physician carving pipes : Dr Bob
 

 

  Derby, pigskin

 

Di Monte

 USA

 

 
A brand of Supreme Imports Coorporation
 England
Brands with diamond logo 

 

(Right side) Made in England 6
"Opera" pipe with oval bowl
Dunhill stampings survey - Estampilles Dunhill
(Left side) Esquire Fine Briar
The Esquire font looks similar to the US fashion magazine by same name.

Title of the "Esquire" magazine
Verona   Italy
  Frabenver, Old Briar
Acronym for: FRAtelli BENzon VERona
See also: Benzon
Toronto, ON 
  Julius Vesz, Hand Made, 2 (In circle) Canada 45

Artisan: Julius Vesz of hungarian origin

Two series:

  • Hand Cut (entirely by hand, very old briar)
    Grading (ascending): 3 - 9, then A - D
  • Hand Made (smaller and simpler pipes)
    Grading (ascending): 2 - 4

See also (early label): Craft

Kikusui

Tokyo  Japan

 

 ◊ 榎作
= made by , product , = Enoki
Other stampings of this tobacconist
Perrysburg, OH 

 

Lewis

(Richard)
 
Lewis SFR 783 

Max Brandt

 Germany

 

See also: Oliver Brandt
 
Brands with two letters logo Brands with shield logo

 

Cavalier

Monarch

USA
(Left side) ◊ Monarch, Pat. Pend.
 The patent pending (1935) is for a system pipe that  had the metal tenon  in the shank and screwed on stem. (See enlarged view #3)

Fred Warnke established the brand in the late 1930 in Hartford (CT). The company moved in the 1950s to Tusla (OK).

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 Stockport England

 

Founded 1958

Current owner: Ian Walker

Artisan: Ian Walker

 England

 

  Orlik Giant Made in England GX22
Brand of the Cadogan company (BBB, Civic, Comoy, GBD, Loewe, Orlik).

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Raffaello, Fiamma Bruna

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AP 102

 

Savana

 

 

  Savana 930

Tagliabue

(Lorenzo)
 Italy
Brands with wooden spot or disk logo 
  Orchidea, Produced by Tagliabue
  20 TH CENTURY, Super Sport
Pipes carved by Lorenzo Tagliabue († 1987) before he headed the "Lorenzo" company in 1969.
Tagliabue's second brands: Dr Hardy

Talamona

(Cesare)
 Italy
 
  Talamona, Romana

Vanderbilt

 
  Vanderbilt, Imported Briar

Vox Pop

 USA
  [Emblem] Vox Pop, Selected Briar

Brand of the Penn Tobacco Company formed in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania in 1901 by Russell Uhl († 1914) and Henry Weigand († 1942).

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Wolf

 
 (Left side) Wolf, London, HHW
 (Right side) (In circle) England Made, 9F
According to Wilczak & Colwell (op. cit) a brand of the Wolf Pipe Co (USA) despite the English origin stamped on the shank (?).

 

  Honey-cured briar, KBB 2003 
 ◊ O (Yellow) KBB (In clover) Yello-Bole, Reg US Pat Off,
      Imperial, Cured with real Honey 3024 B ◊ 
      Logo on shank and stem

 

  KBB (In clover) Yello-Bole, Algerian Bruyere, 2323
See also: KB&B
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