Any Charatan experts in da house?

[sisyphus]

It seems, from assembling data bits dropped here and there, that PH turned Charatan standard shapes for them. The firsts went out as Charatans & Charatan Selecteds ; those with minor flaws got non-double comfort stems and went out as Ben Wades. Same pipes, essentially.

That's the older ones, now. Lane-era stuff.

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I didn't think you could top the comedic value of your first post, but you proved me wrong. Too funny.

 

[Anonymous]

Everybody's good for something, I guess

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[Anonymous]

During the period 1972 (about) - 1989 Ben Wade pipes were mass produced for Lane Ltd. by Preben Holm's workshop

http://pipephil.eu/logos/en/logo-benwade.html

This notes that the freehand BWs were PHs ; it doesn't get into whether or not the standard shapes were. Fact remains that there are BWs in unmistakable Charatan catalogue shapes out there. Kyle has one that comes to mind, and the skater that started this thread is another.

Kyle's -- at least -- was made during the Lane era.

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