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In 1952, 101 years after the Kaufman brothers had opened a small pipe shop in the Bowery section of New York City, Kaufman Brothers & Bondy Company with all subsidiaries was purchased by an unknown company strange to pipe industry. (At least, the new owner was economical because the KB&B managers had to leave their luxurious bureaus on 630 Fifth Avenue, New York - the Rockefeller Center - for new rooms in the factory on 6400 Broadway, West New York.) This interlude ended after only 3 years in March of 1955, when '''[http://www.smfrankcoinc.com/ S.M. Frank & Co. Inc.]''' bought Kaufman Brothers & Bondy, The Kaywoodie Company, Reiss-Premier Corp., The New England Briar Pipe Co. and - of course - Yello-Bole.
In 1952, 101 years after the Kaufman brothers had opened a small pipe shop in the Bowery section of New York City, Kaufman Brothers & Bondy Company with all subsidiaries was purchased by an unknown company strange to pipe industry. (At least, the new owner was economical because the KB&B managers had to leave their luxurious bureaus on 630 Fifth Avenue, New York - the Rockefeller Center - for new rooms in the factory on 6400 Broadway, West New York.) This interlude ended after only 3 years in March of 1955, when '''[http://www.smfrankcoinc.com/ S.M. Frank & Co. Inc.]''' bought Kaufman Brothers & Bondy, The Kaywoodie Company, Reiss-Premier Corp., The New England Briar Pipe Co. and - of course - Yello-Bole.
<gallery widths=250px heights=185px caption="Examples of KB&B Borlums, pre-Kaywoodie, which came with a tube inside the stem to make them 'Unbreakable', courtesy Doug Valitchka">
File:BorlumCantedDublin1.jpg|Canted Dublin
File:BorlumFullBent1.jpg|Full Bent
File:BorlumFullBent6.jpg|Full Bent detail
File:BorlumShorterDublin1.jpg|Shorter Dublin
File:BorlumSmallBilliard1.jpg|Small Billiard
File:BorlumStubbyBilliard1.jpg|Stubby Billiard
File:BorlumStubbyBilliard5.jpg|Stubby Billiard detail
</gallery>
<gallery widths=200px caption="Additional Early KB&B Examples and details, courtesy Doug Valitchka">
File:KBB Rotary1.jpg|KB&B Rotary
File:KBB Rotary6.jpg|KB&B Rotary detail
File:KBBBakelite01.jpg|KB&B Bakelite w/case
File:KBBBakelite17.jpg|Bakelite nomenclature
File:KBBBlueLine01.jpg|KB&B Blue Line
File:KBBBlueLine10.jpg|KB&B Blue Line detail
File:KBBPrinceOfWales01.jpg|KB&B Prince of Whales
File:KBBPrinceOfWales07.jpg|KB&B Prince of Whales nomenclature
File:KBBPrinceOfWales08.jpg|KB&B Prince of Whales stinger
File:KBBSetter1.jpg|KB&B Setter
File:KBBSetter5.jpg|KB&B Setter nomenclature
</gallery>
<gallery widths=200px caption="KB&B Franklin and details, courtesy Doug Valitchka">
<gallery widths=200px caption="KB&B Franklin and details, courtesy Doug Valitchka">