Post by trailboss on Nov 21, 2016 12:05:49 GMT -5
I picked this pipe up in a auction lot, it is stamped on one side:
Reg. Design 752535
Hardcastle in an arc on the other side over "British Made"
"PHITU" on the bottom of the side and underneath is a stamping of 265.
Very little about this pipe on the internet:
www.pipephil.eu/logos/en/logo-hardcastle.html
Pic from Pipephil:
My pic sucks, but it is really clean with sharp stampings..the rim charring cleaned up pretty well and the bowl is in great shape, snug tenon, but the stem needs more hand polishing...no bite marks.
I haven't smoked it yet...no it doesn't pass the "pipe cleaner test" but you can effectively clean it going from both ends...of course not an attractive thing to do, on every bowl smoked.
It seems Captainsousie had one over at PM, and some of the contributors have chimed in..
pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/hardcastle-dating-question
The story behind your pipe is actually pretty cool. It was invented by Eddie Hardcastle, son of the company's founder Edmund, as a result of preparations for a Hardcastle exhibit at the 1936 British Industries Fair. Eddie was putting together a display built around his idea of illustrating "a day in the life in a pipe, showing them catching the train in the morning, going to work, sitting in the arm-chair at home at night. But he [Eddie] just couldn't get a pipe to sit properly in a chair!"
Eddie solved his display problem by bending the mouthpiece of a pipe so that it could rest on its own stem. Out of curiosity Eddie tried the pipe in his own mouth, and found that it "rested perfectly on the chin and saved a lot of 'jaw effort'". Hardcastle wound up marketing the pipe and supposedly it sold well, especially for "fireside and motoring".
This account is drawn from a 1947 issue of a trade journal (Tobacco). Like many non-contemporaneous accounts it's a bit suspect. For one thing the Phitu appears in price lists at least as early as 1930. My personal guess is that the story is in essence true, but that the BIF referred to was an earlier one, say 1929 or 1930. The Fair was annual for a number of years.
Enjoy your pipe; it's a real piece of history.
Rgds,
Jon
Also.."1936: the family sells 49% of the Hardcastle Pipes Limited shares to Dunhill."
So I am guessing that there is a good chance it is Pre-Dunhill.
Reg. Design 752535
Hardcastle in an arc on the other side over "British Made"
"PHITU" on the bottom of the side and underneath is a stamping of 265.
Very little about this pipe on the internet:
www.pipephil.eu/logos/en/logo-hardcastle.html
Pic from Pipephil:
My pic sucks, but it is really clean with sharp stampings..the rim charring cleaned up pretty well and the bowl is in great shape, snug tenon, but the stem needs more hand polishing...no bite marks.
I haven't smoked it yet...no it doesn't pass the "pipe cleaner test" but you can effectively clean it going from both ends...of course not an attractive thing to do, on every bowl smoked.
It seems Captainsousie had one over at PM, and some of the contributors have chimed in..
pipesmagazine.com/forums/topic/hardcastle-dating-question
The story behind your pipe is actually pretty cool. It was invented by Eddie Hardcastle, son of the company's founder Edmund, as a result of preparations for a Hardcastle exhibit at the 1936 British Industries Fair. Eddie was putting together a display built around his idea of illustrating "a day in the life in a pipe, showing them catching the train in the morning, going to work, sitting in the arm-chair at home at night. But he [Eddie] just couldn't get a pipe to sit properly in a chair!"
Eddie solved his display problem by bending the mouthpiece of a pipe so that it could rest on its own stem. Out of curiosity Eddie tried the pipe in his own mouth, and found that it "rested perfectly on the chin and saved a lot of 'jaw effort'". Hardcastle wound up marketing the pipe and supposedly it sold well, especially for "fireside and motoring".
This account is drawn from a 1947 issue of a trade journal (Tobacco). Like many non-contemporaneous accounts it's a bit suspect. For one thing the Phitu appears in price lists at least as early as 1930. My personal guess is that the story is in essence true, but that the BIF referred to was an earlier one, say 1929 or 1930. The Fair was annual for a number of years.
Enjoy your pipe; it's a real piece of history.
Rgds,
Jon
Also.."1936: the family sells 49% of the Hardcastle Pipes Limited shares to Dunhill."
So I am guessing that there is a good chance it is Pre-Dunhill.
