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'''Dating and History:''' | '''Dating and History:''' | ||
[[File:BBB Birmingham 1912.jpg|thumb|BBB Birmingham 1912.Courtesy Yuriy Novikov]] | [[File:BBB Birmingham 1912.jpg|thumb|BBB Birmingham 1912.Courtesy Yuriy Novikov]][[File:BBB-Cavalier--R&L.jpg|thumb|Circa 1912 Cavalier in fitted case, courtesy [http://www.racineandlaramie.com/ Racine & Laramie Tobacconist]]] | ||
[[File:BBB OwnMake.jpg|thumb|Courtesy Doug Valitchka]][[File:BBB74Xmas01.jpg|thumb|Courtesy, Doug Valitchka]][[File:BBBMinervaMatt07.jpg|thumb|Courtesy, Doug Valitchka]][[File:BBBMinervaMatt09.jpg|thumb|Courtesy, Doug Valitchka]][[Image:BBB_04.jpg|right|thumb]][[Image:BBB_19.jpg|thumb]]I have been doing some digging into BBB pipes for some we have for VPC auctions and I found an article online in French. Here is a Babelfish translation of a history of BBB from http://www.fumeursdepipe.net/artbbb.htm | [[File:BBB OwnMake.jpg|thumb|Courtesy Doug Valitchka]][[File:BBB74Xmas01.jpg|thumb|Courtesy, Doug Valitchka]][[File:BBBMinervaMatt07.jpg|thumb|Courtesy, Doug Valitchka]][[File:BBBMinervaMatt09.jpg|thumb|Courtesy, Doug Valitchka]][[Image:BBB_04.jpg|right|thumb]][[Image:BBB_19.jpg|thumb]]I have been doing some digging into BBB pipes for some we have for VPC auctions and I found an article online in French. Here is a Babelfish translation of a history of BBB from http://www.fumeursdepipe.net/artbbb.htm | ||
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Enter in scene Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), author of "Hero and worship of the heroes". This last advises with Mrs Frankau not to sell, but to entrust the future of the company to the hands of the young person Louis Blumfeld, then 18 years old. Carlyle was to have a very high opinion of the Louis young person, and this confidence was justified by its assumption of responsibility of the business, its enthusiasm and its inexhaustible energy. Louis realizes quickly, like others, great potential of the Heather, from which the interest comes to be recognized. | Enter in scene Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), author of "Hero and worship of the heroes". This last advises with Mrs Frankau not to sell, but to entrust the future of the company to the hands of the young person Louis Blumfeld, then 18 years old. Carlyle was to have a very high opinion of the Louis young person, and this confidence was justified by its assumption of responsibility of the business, its enthusiasm and its inexhaustible energy. Louis realizes quickly, like others, great potential of the Heather, from which the interest comes to be recognized. | ||
<center><gallery widths= | <center><gallery widths=250px heights=185px caption="BBB examples, Courtesy Racine & Laramie Tobacconist"> | ||
File:BBB1882-1.jpeg | File:BBB1882-1.jpeg|Mounted with Barling Melbourne Silver (1882) | ||
File:BBB1882-2.jpeg | File:BBB1882-2.jpeg|1882 Detail | ||
File:BBB1907-1.jpeg|1907 | |||
File:BBB1907-2.jpeg|1907 Case | |||
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'''Note:''' The new owner of this pipe may be writing a section for us on the Glokar pipes for inclusion here, including a review of its relative merits. Stay tuned! | '''Note:''' The new owner of this pipe may be writing a section for us on the Glokar pipes for inclusion here, including a review of its relative merits. Stay tuned! | ||
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[[File:BBBs Mark Achtman1.jpg|thumb|A nice collection of BBBs, courtesy Mark Achtman]][[File:BBBs Mark Achtman2.jpg|thumb|A nice collection of BBBs, courtesy Mark Achtman]]The need for manufacturing in London becomes pressing, this is why, with the turning of the century, A. Frankau & Co has a broad warehouse and offices to the 121 Queen Victoria Street, a service of export in Upper Thames Street and opens a factory in 1898 in Homerton, High Street 112 (then 154) until in the Eighties when Cadogan gathers its activities of manufacture in Southend one Sea. | [[File:BBBs Mark Achtman1.jpg|thumb|A nice collection of BBBs, courtesy Mark Achtman]][[File:BBBs Mark Achtman2.jpg|thumb|A nice collection of BBBs, courtesy Mark Achtman]]The need for manufacturing in London becomes pressing, this is why, with the turning of the century, A. Frankau & Co has a broad warehouse and offices to the 121 Queen Victoria Street, a service of export in Upper Thames Street and opens a factory in 1898 in Homerton, High Street 112 (then 154) until in the Eighties when Cadogan gathers its activities of manufacture in Southend one Sea. | ||
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Whereas the shapes of the briar pipes are similar with those of the other marks, the models develop a very nowadays required distinct character by the collectors. Besides BBB gains the gold medal to the Franco-Britanique Exposure in London of 1908 (Frank Bowcher, 1864-1938) and to the World Fair and International of Brussels in 1910, medal of Godefroid Devreese (1861-1941). One finds these medals, in particular on the advertising folders of the Fifties and Sixties. | Whereas the shapes of the briar pipes are similar with those of the other marks, the models develop a very nowadays required distinct character by the collectors. Besides BBB gains the gold medal to the Franco-Britanique Exposure in London of 1908 (Frank Bowcher, 1864-1938) and to the World Fair and International of Brussels in 1910, medal of Godefroid Devreese (1861-1941). One finds these medals, in particular on the advertising folders of the Fifties and Sixties. | ||