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clear mouthpiece creates an attractive contrast to the deep dark finish." | clear mouthpiece creates an attractive contrast to the deep dark finish." | ||
G.L. Pease has a beautiful collection of older GBDs, as shown is this very interesting article called | == Dating GBDs == | ||
[[Pieces From My GBD Collection]]. | ''The following is from an A.S.P post by G.L. Pease dated 1996/05/18, and used by permission'' | ||
"Dating GBD's is difficult. On older pieces with hallmarked silver | |||
bands, one can look up the hallmark. Once GBD and Comoy's became one, | |||
the linear "Made in England" stamp became the round "Made in London | |||
England" stamp used on all later Comoys. | |||
Even the stem is not a sure-fire method. All the way through the 1960's | |||
and early 1970's, some pipes were fitted with molded stems, while others | |||
were hand-cut. Not all hand-cut stems are marked as such, and it | |||
doesn't depend on grade. (In my collection is one of the finest | |||
Pedigrees I've ever seen. It is un-smoked, made in the 1960's, and has | |||
one of the poorest molded stems I've ever seen on a production pipe! | |||
But, the wood would make a Dunhill DRH, or a Charatan Coronation blush!) | |||
That said, you can be assured that if the stem has a painted GBD | |||
rondelle, rather than a silver or brass one set into the stem, that it | |||
is a late-model, made after the merge with Comoy. These were the | |||
beginning of the dark-days for GBD (and Comoy, for that matter) in my | |||
opinion. | |||
In some cases, the grade gives some clues. Xtras haven't been made | |||
since the 1930's, for instance, and the Century was first introduced | |||
some time in the 1960's or 1970's as I recall, from what scant literature | |||
I've been able to acquire. GBD introduced new shapes and dropped shapes | |||
almost every year it seems (an exaggeration, I'm sure), so if you had a | |||
lot of shape charts, you might be able to find a range." | |||
Incidentally, G.L. Pease has a beautiful collection of older GBDs, as shown is this very interesting article called, "[[Pieces From My GBD Collection]]". | |||
== Current Production == | == Current Production == | ||