Family Era Barling’s Make YOW 479 Fossil EXEL 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.

As we summarize in our Dating Barling Pipes guide on the main MBSD hub, “family era” Barling briar pipes are those from between the early 1900s until around 1960, when the Barling family themselves owned the Barling make and made Barling’s Make pipes. This is one of those pipes, and it shows off one aspect of early Barlings that became a touchstone for later pipe-makers, such as JT Cooke: deep, craggy sandblasting. This Barling, with its sandblast directed toward the natural bird’s-eye patterns of briar, is so gnarly it looks almost rusticated. While it maintains the generally smaller proportions of early briar pipes, this Barling is one of the larger sizes Barling’s Make offered, being an EXEL grade.

The condition is very good. Some rim darkening.

 

Details:

Length: 6.4″ / 162.5mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.8mm

Bowl Depth: 1.65″ / 41.91mm

Weight: 1.2oz / 36g