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Adolph Frankau & Co Ltd In 1847, Adolph Frankau arrived in London and quickly understood opportunities that the market of tobacco presented, in full expansion. He created the company "Adolph Frankau & Co" and became an importer of meerschaum pipes and supplies in connection with the tobacco. It takes under its wing young a 14 year old boy, Louis Blumfeld. The business thrives quickly until the death of Adolph Frankau in 1856. His widow prepares to sell the company. | Adolph Frankau & Co Ltd In 1847, Adolph Frankau arrived in London and quickly understood opportunities that the market of tobacco presented, in full expansion. He created the company "Adolph Frankau & Co" and became an importer of meerschaum pipes and supplies in connection with the tobacco. It takes under its wing young a 14 year old boy, Louis Blumfeld. The business thrives quickly until the death of Adolph Frankau in 1856. His widow prepares to sell the company. | ||
<gallery widths=250px heights=185px caption="BBB 1858 Meerschaum Pipe (Replacement Bit). This pipe made just two years after Adolph Frankau’s death in 1856. Courtesy Racine & Laramie Tobacconist"> | |||
File:BBB Left.jpeg | File:BBB Left.jpeg | ||
File:BBB Right.jpeg | File:BBB Right.jpeg | ||
File:BBB Hallmark.jpeg | File:BBB Hallmark.jpeg | ||
</gallery | </gallery> | ||
Enter in scene Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), author of "Hero and worship of the heroes". This last advises with Mrs Frankau not to sell, but to entrust the future of the company to the hands of the young person Louis Blumfeld, then 18 years old. Carlyle was to have a very high opinion of the Louis young person, and this confidence was justified by its assumption of responsibility of the business, its enthusiasm and its inexhaustible energy. Louis realizes quickly, like others, great potential of the Heather, from which the interest comes to be recognized. | Enter in scene Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), author of "Hero and worship of the heroes". This last advises with Mrs Frankau not to sell, but to entrust the future of the company to the hands of the young person Louis Blumfeld, then 18 years old. Carlyle was to have a very high opinion of the Louis young person, and this confidence was justified by its assumption of responsibility of the business, its enthusiasm and its inexhaustible energy. Louis realizes quickly, like others, great potential of the Heather, from which the interest comes to be recognized. | ||
<gallery widths=250px heights=185px caption="BBB examples, Courtesy Racine & Laramie Tobacconist"> | |||
File:BBB1882-1.jpeg|Mounted with Barling Melbourne Silver (1882) | File:BBB1882-1.jpeg|Mounted with Barling Melbourne Silver (1882) | ||
File:BBB1882-2.jpeg|1882 Detail | File:BBB1882-2.jpeg|1882 Detail | ||
File:BBB1907-1.jpeg|1907 | File:BBB1907-1.jpeg|1907 | ||
File:BBB1907-2.jpeg|1907 Case | File:BBB1907-2.jpeg|1907 Case | ||
</gallery | </gallery> | ||
Louis Blumfeld develops from the very start of important international trade, with a particular success in Canada, in Australia, in Zealand News, India and in the extrème Is Europe, in Switzerland and, with a special mention, in Denmark. If the USA were never an extraordinary market, a branch is opened all the same in New York. In fact, the marketing strategy was focused especially on the countries of the Britanique Empire. Little before 1914, A Frankau & Co was also a sole agent for the pipes Cherry Wood of the Ropp house to cover the United Kingdom and its colonies. | Louis Blumfeld develops from the very start of important international trade, with a particular success in Canada, in Australia, in Zealand News, India and in the extrème Is Europe, in Switzerland and, with a special mention, in Denmark. If the USA were never an extraordinary market, a branch is opened all the same in New York. In fact, the marketing strategy was focused especially on the countries of the Britanique Empire. Little before 1914, A Frankau & Co was also a sole agent for the pipes Cherry Wood of the Ropp house to cover the United Kingdom and its colonies. | ||
<gallery widths=250px heights=250px caption="1908 BBB Own Make Sterling Mounted Oom Paul, Birmingham 'i' Hallmark Courtesy Dennis Dreyer"> | <gallery widths=250px heights=250px caption="1908 BBB Own Make Sterling Mounted Oom Paul, Birmingham 'i' Hallmark Courtesy Dennis Dreyer"> | ||
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If the BBB are its the most known pipes, A Frankau & Co had several marks of pipes: Capt. Kidd, Fairway ("F" in white; FAIRWAY/LONDON MADE/ENGLAND), Frankau' S (London Made/Made in England), Glokar, Major Daff, the Snap-FIT. It also seems that Ultonia and Last word must be regarded as marks with whole share, in spite of the fact that they are presented as being product lines under label BBB. That would explain their absence of catalogues BBB. | If the BBB are its the most known pipes, A Frankau & Co had several marks of pipes: Capt. Kidd, Fairway ("F" in white; FAIRWAY/LONDON MADE/ENGLAND), Frankau' S (London Made/Made in England), Glokar, Major Daff, the Snap-FIT. It also seems that Ultonia and Last word must be regarded as marks with whole share, in spite of the fact that they are presented as being product lines under label BBB. That would explain their absence of catalogues BBB. | ||
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'''Glokar''' pipes appear to be BBB's answer to the [[Peterson]] system pipes. It has a well, similar to Peterson's, and sports a mouthpiece very similar to Peterson's P-lip design. The following images are from the wonderful reproduction of the massive (450 page) 1912 BBB catalog No.XX, done by [http://briarbooks.com/BBB_1912_Catalogue.html Briar Books Press] | '''Glokar''' pipes appear to be BBB's answer to the [[Peterson]] system pipes. It has a well, similar to Peterson's, and sports a mouthpiece very similar to Peterson's P-lip design. The following images are from the wonderful reproduction of the massive (450 page) 1912 BBB catalog No.XX, done by [http://briarbooks.com/BBB_1912_Catalogue.html Briar Books Press] | ||
<gallery widths=250px heights=500px caption="Glokar pages from 1912 BBB Catalog"> | |||
File:BBB 1912 Catalog pg107 Glokar.jpg|Page 107 | File:BBB 1912 Catalog pg107 Glokar.jpg|Page 107 | ||
File:BBB 1912 Catalog pg108 Glokar.jpg|Page 108 | File:BBB 1912 Catalog pg108 Glokar.jpg|Page 108 | ||
File:BBB 1912 Catalog pg109 Glokar.jpg|Page 109 | File:BBB 1912 Catalog pg109 Glokar.jpg|Page 109 | ||
File:BBB 1912 Catalog pg110 Glokar.jpg|Page 110 | File:BBB 1912 Catalog pg110 Glokar.jpg|Page 110 | ||
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<gallery widths=250px heights=185px caption="1911 BBB, banded, with Glokar Trade mark stamping on top of the stem and Bladder Bros. stamp, courtesy Doug Valitchka"> | |||
BBBGlokar01.jpg | BBBGlokar01.jpg | ||
BBBGlokar07.jpg | BBBGlokar07.jpg | ||
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<gallery widths=250px heights=250px caption="An attractive example of a 1913 BBB with Glokar Trade mark stamping on top of the stem, courtesy Doug Valitchka"> | |||
File:BBBSilver&Box01.jpg|The box in the photo is not original to the pipe | File:BBBSilver&Box01.jpg|The box in the photo is not original to the pipe | ||
File:BBBSilver&Box05.jpg | File:BBBSilver&Box05.jpg | ||
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File:BBBSilver&Box10.jpg | File:BBBSilver&Box10.jpg | ||
File:BBBSilver&Box13.jpg | File:BBBSilver&Box13.jpg | ||
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'''Note:''' The new owner of this pipe may be writing a section for us on the Glokar pipes for inclusion here, including a review of its relative merits. Stay tuned! | '''Note:''' The new owner of this pipe may be writing a section for us on the Glokar pipes for inclusion here, including a review of its relative merits. Stay tuned! | ||
<gallery widths=300 heights=200 caption="1920 hallmarked example and details, courtesy Doug Valitchka"> | |||
File:BBB01.jpg | File:BBB01.jpg | ||
File:BBB07.jpg | File:BBB07.jpg | ||
File:BBB09.jpg | File:BBB09.jpg | ||
</gallery | </gallery> | ||
[[File:BBBs Mark Achtman1.jpg|thumb|A nice collection of BBBs, courtesy Mark Achtman]][[File:BBBs Mark Achtman2.jpg|thumb|A nice collection of BBBs, courtesy Mark Achtman]]The need for manufacturing in London becomes pressing, this is why, with the turning of the century, A. Frankau & Co has a broad warehouse and offices to the 121 Queen Victoria Street, a service of export in Upper Thames Street and opens a factory in 1898 in Homerton, High Street 112 (then 154) until in the Eighties when Cadogan gathers its activities of manufacture in Southend one Sea. | [[File:BBBs Mark Achtman1.jpg|thumb|A nice collection of BBBs, courtesy Mark Achtman]][[File:BBBs Mark Achtman2.jpg|thumb|A nice collection of BBBs, courtesy Mark Achtman]]The need for manufacturing in London becomes pressing, this is why, with the turning of the century, A. Frankau & Co has a broad warehouse and offices to the 121 Queen Victoria Street, a service of export in Upper Thames Street and opens a factory in 1898 in Homerton, High Street 112 (then 154) until in the Eighties when Cadogan gathers its activities of manufacture in Southend one Sea. | ||
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It is thought that BBB was one of the first to call the form Lovat "Lovat", pipes designed with broad led for a better passage of air. However, the firm "Friedlands" could have adopted this name at the same time. Lovats appeared well before 1914 and were proposed with the sale by BBB in four different dimensions, of which a series called Highland. Colonel Henry Francis Fraser (1872-1949), Lord of Lovat, must have made the publicity of this form made in his honor and which is always popular nowadays. | It is thought that BBB was one of the first to call the form Lovat "Lovat", pipes designed with broad led for a better passage of air. However, the firm "Friedlands" could have adopted this name at the same time. Lovats appeared well before 1914 and were proposed with the sale by BBB in four different dimensions, of which a series called Highland. Colonel Henry Francis Fraser (1872-1949), Lord of Lovat, must have made the publicity of this form made in his honor and which is always popular nowadays. | ||
<gallery widths=350 heights=250 caption="Colonel Henry Frazer Lovat Pipe example, courtesy Doug Valitchka"> | |||
File:ColFraserLovat1.jpg | File:ColFraserLovat1.jpg | ||
File:ColFraserLovat7.jpg | File:ColFraserLovat7.jpg | ||
</gallery | </gallery> | ||