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Dating GBD pipes?
Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2012 9:39 pm
by SchmidtN
I've got an estate GBD New Era pipe and everywhere I go to try and find more info about it just tells me it's silly to try and date GBDs because it's impossible.
Any GBD experts out there?
She's a square shanked pot. Exceptional smoker, but I can't even narrow this pipe down to a decade.
Much obliged.
Re: Dating GBD pipes?
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 9:09 pm
by Frank
This tends to be my "go-to" site for starters. You'll have to take it from here, if you haven't already done so:
http://www.pipedia.org/index.php?title=GBD#Dating_GBDs
Re: Dating GBD pipes?
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:42 pm
by SchmidtN
Thanks for the link, I've seen that and all I got out of it was pre-merger... I don't even know when the merger happened though. I really don't know anything about GBD.
I did look for shape charts and found this one (bottom pipe)
but it's not dated... Anybody know when the US Postage rate to mail a letter was 3 cents?
Re: Dating GBD pipes?
Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2012 11:45 pm
by Frank
Re: Dating GBD pipes?
Posted: Sun Jan 08, 2012 4:07 am
by SchmidtN
Haha, that was kind of a joke, but I appreciate the link.
So I guess the pipe is from some time between November 3, 1917 and the GBD/Comoy merger (about 1981?).