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To the extent that there is a "Transition" period, one that exists after the family is gone, it lasts for about months. The old definitions were based on incorrect assumptions and are just not an accurate depiction of the actual history. More accurate to say "Family Era" vs "Corporate Era".
All that said, Here's what I can say about your pipe. It was made between late and as it was certainly made in one of the two Barling factories. The factories where shut down around and the work was then outsourced to several other pipemakers, such as Charatan. Judging from the shaping of both the bowl and the stem I'd put this at the earlier end of the range. I have several Barlings from this period and they are uniformly excellent performers. It should smoke like a champ. Jesse, what about my specific question about the King marking, if the answer is known? But given the "King" included in the sizing chart, I see no reason to exclude it being used right from the get go.
There's also the question regarding the use of the TVF stamp after the product line was revised. It's been assumed that it was dropped for a period of time, but I've found reason to believe that it continued to be used all along. A recent eBay auction featured a pipe with a sterling olive with hallmarks fitted to a pipe with the revised stampings that also has the TVF stamp. Keep in mind that the hallmark only tells you when the sterling was assayed, not when the pipe was made, but it seems unlikely that the cap just hung around for years and years.
Most likely is was use in late or So TVF could have continued to be used, as least some of the time. I absolutely love your definition and segmentation of Barling's into Family and Corporate Era. Makes things very easy for newcomers into the hobby. Your questions having already been addressed, I will just add that you have a very nice pipe.
I love those old big bore English pots. This pipe will let you experience all the nuance of the great Balkan blends. If you like Nightcap's latakia punch, though, best not smoke it in this pipe. A bowl like your 's will tame it right down. This pipe used an absorbent paper filter that was aluminum lined. Gage notes, based on tenon and air hole construction, that it appears a number of Barling pipes of all varieties originally had filters, and the company registered a number of patents for filter pipes.
The Pipelet line of aluminum tube pipes had a script "Barling" logo, no apostrophe and no "s", presaging the later Corporate Era logo. These featured an aluminum push tenon. They were not stamped "TVF" however. They were stained with a special walnut-hued stain designed to emphasize, as a company promotion noted, shimmering color and grain contrast that mimicked the sheen of the British guinea gold coin.
This designation was not introduced until the s. Presentation Straight Grains were introduced in the catalogue, along with other changes under new management. Worth noting, "Giant" is another grade that was not stamped as such, but is clearly an exceptionally large, classically proportioned billiard, and easily identified by the experienced collector. These appeared in the s.
Most likely, these were custom orders. They generally carried no grade designation, but occasionally giant sandblasts were stamped "Fossil. In addition, in a category all by themselves, are the Quaints.
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The Barling family prided themselves on producing flawless pipes with no fills or sand pits. In some cases, pipes with flaws would get a sandblast. Occasionally a pipe with exceptional grain, often of Guinea Grain or straight grain quality, but flawed with a pit, would be hand carved into a wonderful and unique work of art. No two are exactly alike, but often feature what collectors refer to as "chicken scratchings" or "radiator fins. They were simply hand carved pipes. But, reflecting the work involved in their carving, these were priced at the same level as the straight grains.
According to Ronald Harden, Monty Barling conceived the Quaint concept and roughed out many of the designs. Gage Currently, research from Jon Guss and Tad Gage suggests that a gentleman named Bob Channan, a master grader and carver of long experience with Barling, may have been the expert who carved these magnificent creations. We are speculating, but feel it's important to note this because these Quaint designs incorporate incredible artistry and a creative blend of rustic and industrial themes. These pipes are masterpieces of design and creativity, regardless of who conceived the designs and who executed the flawless result.
In , a Barling pipe turned up with a hitherto forgotten set of nomenclature. It is a panel bent billiard, whose sterling band bears hallmarks for This is simply an exquisite pipe! We are indebted to Richard Gray for allowing it to be included in this update. Barling did not make giant pipes that were labeled as such.
But Barling offered giant versions of their pipes at least as far back as The Barling Company produced a variety of classic English shapes of every description. It has been written that they primarily produced billiards and pots because Montague Barling believed that Peterson had a lock on the bent market, and Charatan dominated in the area of Dublin shapes.
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But their catalogs, including the circa catalog, show a wide assortment of shapes including pages of bents, dublins, bulldogs, and other classical shapes. Barling produced shapes of all description and constantly experimented with variations. Special orders lack model numbers because they are not standard models. The inside cover of the Barling box has a label pasted inside. Every five years the length of time that Barling has been in business was updated on that label.
By looking at the label one can tell approximately when the box was made. If the box is original to the pipe not a common occurrence this can also indicate approximately when the pipe was made. As stated earlier in this update, the Transition era began in October of and ended in February of During the first 20 months of the Transition Era, the pipes that the Barling Company produced under Finlay ownership are indistinguishable from the pipes that the Barling Company produced under Barling ownership.
The Barling family continued to manage the company for Finlay. The constants are the quality of the product and family management. My references touch upon only a tiny percentage of his findings. The story that gets promulgated among aficionados can be thusly summarized. For years, the Barling family produced superior products that ranked amongst the finest of their kind.
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Then the family sold their company. Then the transition company was sold to Imperial Tobacco and quality went straight down the drain. Conceptually, collectors act as though the Barling family exited on a Friday and on Monday the new management walked in and took over. The pipes immediately began to suffer and therefore transition pipes are inherently inferior while post-transition pipes are even more so.
Guss documents that the transition is a lot more complicated than that.
To begin, the famous old wood, that superb Algerian briar with exceptional heat dispersion, was largely displaced years before the company was sold. As early as , Guss writes that Barling was forced to supplement their stock with briar sourced from a variety of other countries. Guss Were these pipes inherently inferior? Based on the behavior of collectors and sellers, almost nobody notices a difference. When the rare mention comes up in a forum, none of the comments address the briar being Grecian or Sardinian as opposed to being Algerian.
Wherever Barling bought their stock, they continued to use the best of the best. Guss pinpoints the sale of the company to October 3, as reported in the trade journal Tobacco. Guss And yours truly has documented that the Barling family was still occupying their jobs until at least mid , a period of roughly 20 months.
Guss During that period Barling continued to produce pipes that are accepted as pre-transition Barling pipes even though they were made after the sale of the company, during a time that the quality supposedly began to slip. Why are these pipes accepted as pre-transition when they are not? Below is a transition era Barling that passes as a pre-trans.
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The seller represented this as a pre-transition pipe. The buyer is hopefully happy with his purchase. There are years of pre-transition Barling pipes made prior to the sale that are not necessarily old growth Algerian briar. The transition is not a matter of sudden change measured in weeks or months, but a gradual change measured in years. The shift from pre-transition to transition eras is, for want of a better term, permeable.
If a collector is determined to have an old growth Algerian briar pre-transition Barling, they need to be looking at pre pipes. That would be hallmarked pieces, patent era pieces, or earlier. Not that it really matters. As just stated, no one had noticed a difference in the briar, only in matters of final fit and finish, which no are longer apparent after years.
The model number and logo stamp changed in mid while the Barling family still ran operations.