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[[File:BBB Add.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Courtesy, Doug Valitchka]][[File:BBB Add 1957.jpg|thumb|300px|Courtesy, Doug Valitchka]][[File:BBB74Xmas01.jpg|thumb|300px|Courtesy, Doug Valitchka]][[File:BBBMinervaMatt07.jpg|thumb|300px|Courtesy, Doug Valitchka]][[File:BBBMinervaMatt09.jpg|thumb|300px|Courtesy, Doug Valitchka]][[Image:BBB_04.jpg|right|300px|thumb]][[Image:BBB_19.jpg|thumb|300px]]The initials once stood for Blumfeld’s Best Briars after Louis Blumfeld, who took over the management of the Adolph Frankau Company in 1856. After his death, the BBB gradually became known as Britain’s Best Briars. Soon to be the oldest English trademark in current use and the first pipe ever to have a registered trade mark. "Britain's Best Briars", often called BBB, is one of the oldest brands still in production and has always been the most popular foreign brand in Denmark. Earlier pipes included a metal rondel with a diamond shape including BBB imbedded in the stem top, and later post-Cadogan went to a stamped on logo, similar to the GBD pipes.  

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