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If a non-pre-transition Barling has the Barlings in a script, a 4-digit shape number, good grain with some pitting and good workmanship, and a typically-styled handcut Barling saddle bit, you can be reasonably certain is a transition pipe.
If a non-pre-transition Barling has the Barlings in a script, a 4-digit shape number, good grain with some pitting and good workmanship, and a typically-styled handcut Barling saddle bit, you can be reasonably certain is a transition pipe.
== Sources ==
*Rare Smoke, Volume 1, by Richard Carleton Hacker
*Pipe.org discussion [http://forum.pipes.org/~discus/discus/messages/23/53452.html?1179206976]
*Several A.S.P posts Micheal Lindner[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.smokers.pipes/msg/11eb43da216e10ce], Mel Feldman[http://groups.google.com/group/alt.smokers.pipes/msg/b987281f680939a1], and others
'''Sources to check (please help if you have these. I'm trying to get them)'''
*"A smoker's guide to Barling" by Tad Gage in "Pipe Friendly" vol. 1, # 3 pp. 7, 1995.
*"Tad Gage article on Barling in the "Spring" 2000 edition of Pipes & Tobacco Magazine.