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[[Image:Wood2.jpg|right|130px|Mr. Les Wood]] | |||
[[File:Mrandmrswood.jpeg|thumb|right|120px|Mr. & Mrs. Wood]] | |||
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|<center>'''About | |<center>'''About Men Behind the Curtains'''</center> | ||
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<center><font size="3">[[File:Aspas-copy.png|40px]]'''I have enjoyed all the 57 years in the trade and will carry on but in a much smaller production, just to keep my hands working up for the rest of my life. My target now is shoot, fish and work in the garden in the summer.'''[[File:Aspas.png|40px]]</font> Les Wood.</center> | <center><font size="3">[[File:Aspas-copy.png|40px]]'''I have enjoyed all the 57 years in the trade and will carry on but in a much smaller production, just to keep my hands working up for the rest of my life. My target now is shoot, fish and work in the garden in the summer.'''[[File:Aspas.png|40px]]</font> Les Wood.</center> | ||
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|<center>'''About Pipes'''</center> | |<center>'''About Pipes'''</center> | ||
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Due to diffuse worldwide rights to certain names, he sold his earlier pipes as " L.&J.S Briars", "Ellwood", "Les Wood" or "L. Wood". The average of presently 1500 - 2000 pipes a year are sold as '''"Ferndown"''' — named for the mansion he lives in - in the UK and US, but as "L. Wood" pipes in Germany. | Due to diffuse worldwide rights to certain names, he sold his earlier pipes as " L.&J.S Briars", "Ellwood", "Les Wood" or "L. Wood". The average of presently 1500 - 2000 pipes a year are sold as '''"Ferndown"''' — named for the mansion he lives in - in the UK and US, but as "L. Wood" pipes in Germany. | ||
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<center><gallery mode="nolines" widths= | <center><gallery mode="nolines" widths=300px heights=220px perrow=4 caption="Directly from Mr. Les Wood's workshop."> | ||
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|<center>'''About Gallery of Pipes'''</center> | |<center>'''About Gallery of Pipes'''</center> | ||
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[[File:R&L-Ferndown.jpg|thumb|center| | [[File:R&L-Ferndown.jpg|thumb|center|600px|Ferndown Bark, Antique, courtesy [http://www.racineandlaramie.com/ Racine & Laramie Tobacconist]]] | ||
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File:FerndownRusticatedBulldog.jpg | File:FerndownRusticatedBulldog.jpg | ||
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<center><gallery heights= | <center><gallery heights=250 widths=230 perrow=4 caption="Ferndown Premier Sandblast (Les Wood & Michael Parks Collaboration) – 2 Star, courtesy Dennis Dreyer Collection"> | ||
File:FerndownPremier01.jpg | File:FerndownPremier01.jpg | ||
File:FerndownPremier03.jpg | File:FerndownPremier03.jpg | ||