Local Find

[Lynn]

I have that exact pipe in the last photo in post #16, a straight stem Williard with a yellow dot.

It is a small bowled pipe and the perfect size for one flake of Escudo or PS Luxury Bullseye Flake. Almost like it was made for that.

I picked mine up when the Memphis flea market came to town for a whopping $10 and it is a fine smoker. You got yours way cheaper than that.
I cut the stinger off mine with a hacksaw because it was caked up so bad that the draw was extremely tight. Whatever it was had hardened in there and no matter how much vodka I soaked it in it would not come out.

That is a great haul man congrats.

shine always soak in shine

[Cool Breeze]

shine always soak in shine

The stuff in the mason jars doesn't get wasted cleaning pipes.

[Lynn]

most as they appear to be near as old as me. now stop that @AlanS I seen you an thems ar lik new borns compared to you....I want that one right there what you want for it?????????.....

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The stuff in the mason jars doesn't get wasted cleaning pipes.

no no ya drink it after soakin, adds flavor...

[NeverBend]

First one is an Arthur Leonard, Bruyere Nature 9435 France

Yello-Bole, Spartan

Alan, made me smile that you got these pipes.

Leonard's was one of the best West Coast shops. Fine people too. Your pipe is probably made by Butz-Choquin and sold under the store label.

I searched the Net to see if they were still in business and found this article:
Arthur Leonard's Pipe Shop, Portland Oregon

There are inaccuracies in the article that I commented about there but it didn't appear (perhaps it will), so I'll re-post my comment here with the excerpted paragraph that I took exception with.

(inaccurate paragraph)
It is interesting that when the Barling family sold out, they called the Leonard shop and Arthur Leonard responded- – -buying every single Barling on hand at the time of sale so no inventory was acquired by the new owners (ending speculation that “Transition” Barlings were really older pieces acquired by the new owners)! Leonard did the same thing for the Sasieni family when they sold out!

(My comment):
With respect, I must take issue with the paragraph about the purchase of all Barling pipe stock by Leonard's when the Barling family 'sold out’ and any impact on the Transition period. Similarly about Sasieni as well.

Lou and Betty Leonard were customers of mine in the 1980s. When Lou learned that I collected Barlings he told me, “I bought all the Barlings that I could get my hands on" when he learned that Barling had been sold and that he’d bought close to 100 pipes.

Imperial Tobacco Group, through their subsidiary, Finlay, already owned a sizeable part of Barling when they took control in 1960 but Monte Barling and Williamson-Barling remained, at least, in some capacity for a couple more years. Finlay was Barling’s largest customer. Barling made thousands of pipes a week and they would have had a standing inventory of finished and in-process pipes of at least 5,000 if not (much) more. I know of no account of anyone buying up stock.

Most of the employees remained with Barling, at least initially, so that the quality of pipes made after Finlay took control remained close to, if not the same.

Lou was a wonderful man and I suspect that he heard of the sale and bought Barlings in case there was a change in quality. That change did occur but it wasn’t an immediate event. The Barlings that Lou bought had no effect on quality in the Transition Period. The drop in quality of Barling pipes gradually accelerated from 1960 until they stopped making their own pipes at all, instead purchasing pipes from Cadogan and Charatan to label as Barling.

Kennedy Barnes (Upshall) and I talked with Sasieni solicitors about buying all or part of the company in 1986 (we didn’t buy). Unlike Barling, Sasieni was going out of business and they did indeed sell off their pipes and I’d imagine that Lou bought many (he was a long-time customer) but they had thousands of pipes to sell.

You have a fine site but I think it would behoove you to edit this paragraph to reflect the truth, least the inaccuracies become embedded in Internet Folklore.

[NeverBend]

I searched the Net to see if they were still in business and found this article:
Arthur Leonard's Pipe Shop, Portland Oregon

My comment has been included on the site with this gracious response from the author (Reborn Pipes):

Pete thank you for your information. It is invaluable to the piece on Leonard’s. Thank you for taking the time to put this together and add it to the piece. I will add a reference to your added information as an addendum to the article. It will also remain with the article. Again thank you.