Family Era Barling’s Make YOW 245 Smooth Canadian Estate Briar Pipe, English Estates

Description

Barling and Sons was originally founded in 1812 by Benjamin Barling and began as a family business making silver-adorned meerschaum pipes. In the early 20th century, however, the Barling family began to produce what the brand is today most famous for – expertly made briar pipes.

This might just be my favorite Barling to have landed on my desk, but then again I was always partial to Canadians. It’s a beautiful “family era,” or “pre-transition” piece which, as is summarized in our Barling Dating Guide on the main MBSD hub, means that it was made by the Barling family during their ownership and management of the make. This is evinced by the Barling’s Make nomenclature and three digit shape code. As mentioned, it’s a beautiful Canadian and is furthermore very classically inclined in its slightly smaller proportions and featherweight stature. There’s plenty of enjoyable flame grain around the bowl and the shank shows off a strip of pure bird’s-eye.

The condition is great. Some darkening on the inner rim For those interested, the stamping is as follows:

BARLING’S (arched)
MAKE
245

and

MADE IN
ENGLAND

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Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.67 / 17.01mm

Bowl Depth: 1.39″ / 35.30mm

Weight: 0.9oz / 28g