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 Shape name, e.g. 'INVERNESS' (= Lovat), sometimes also a 'Made in England' stamp, probably only on pipes exported to the USA.
-* The first series names to be used appear to be 'CENTURION' and 'ORIGINAL' and 'OLD
-ENGLISH'. According to catalogues, they denote grades. Centurions were allegedly made of
-wood over 100 years old. Grading was not introduced until some time between 1956 and 1964,
-as one Danish owner of Loewe catalogues reports. Additional, probably later, grade stamps
-include 'MOUNTED', 'SPIGOT', 'STANDARD' and 'STRAIGHT GRAIN'. There are certainly
-no grade stamps on pipes made up to 1920. There were also none on the sandblast pipes
-advertised as Ripple Grains in 1950. That year's catalogue also lists a pipe called the "Process",
-with a natural finish and a processed bowl requiring no breaking- in. Both the Process and the
-blasts were missing in 1956.
 During the 1960s, still under the Civic regime, the original premises were lost to development