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After the expiration of the Jersey City lease the Manhattan Briar Pipe Company maintained offices and a factory at 415-425 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn, New York beginning in 1915, evidently under the direction of W. C. Bastian, who had been granted a patent for a chambered pipe stem<ref>unclear if it's https://patents.google.com/patent/US980476A</ref> otherwise seemingly identical to a [[Peterson]] P-Lip in 1910.  An employee of the company, one J. Gianninoto, was granted a patent for a device meant to permit the emptying of a cuspidor<ref>https://patents.google.com/patent/US1249946</ref> without the mess in early 1918, and the company continues to be listed in local directories through 1921.  In 1922 Manhattan Briar was purchased by [[S.M. Frank]] and merged into that company<ref>U.S. Government Printing Office, February 25, 1909. Report of Tobacco Industry (pp. 89, 269).</ref>.
After the expiration of the Jersey City lease the Manhattan Briar Pipe Company maintained offices and a factory at 415-425 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn, New York beginning in 1915, evidently under the direction of W. C. Bastian, who had been granted a patent for a chambered pipe stem<ref>unclear if it's https://patents.google.com/patent/US980476A</ref> otherwise seemingly identical to a [[Peterson]] P-Lip in 1910.  An employee of the company, one J. Gianninoto, was granted a patent for a device meant to permit the emptying of a cuspidor<ref>https://patents.google.com/patent/US1249946</ref> without the mess in early 1918, and the company continues to be listed in local directories through 1921.  In 1922 Manhattan Briar was purchased by [[S.M. Frank]] and merged into that company<ref>U.S. Government Printing Office, February 25, 1909. Report of Tobacco Industry (pp. 89, 269).</ref>.
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