Dating GBD pipes?

[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.

[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

[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?

[Frank]

http://www.akdart.com/postrate.html

[SchmidtN]

http://www.akdart.com/postrate.html

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?).