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This Pre-Transition Barling Pot is quite a pipe. I love early English pipe shapes save for the fact that many are small and have thin, mingy chamber walls which I seem to have no trouble heating up, which was never the case with this one. The pipe measures 6 3/8 inches in length, the bowl is 1 5/8 inches in height, with an outer bowl diameter of 1 3/4 inches and a chamber diameter of 1 inch giving a chamber wall thickness of just over 1/4 inch. The grain is as good as I have seen on a Barling, and the pristine saddle bit retains the "Barling Cross" which was hard struck and retains all or most of the white coloring. There are no cracks, no splits at the end of the shank or elsewhere, no fire damage to the chamber or at its rounded inner diameter, and no dents to the wood. I remember sending the pipe to Jim Benjamin years ago after I purchased it for a cleaning, and it remains as fresh as a daisy. I have only smoked fine English in it.
The nomenclature on the shank, while fully legible to the eye, in my case with the help of reading glasses, reads on the left side "Barling's" in an arch over "Make" over "Ye Olde Wood" over "Straight Grain." To the right of all of this, near the end of the shank, will be found the initials "T.V.F." Stamped on the right side of the shank is simply "Made in" over "England."
Should the winner of the auction reside outside the U.S. or Canada, insurance or tracking will be required. I sold an unopened tin of "Barling's 1812 Mixture" to a gentleman overseas who chose not to insure the item, and it never arrived. The buyer must pay for the pipe within 5 days of the close of the auction.

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