New Falcon

[SpeedyPete]

While on a short vacation I visited a jeweler who used to sell pipes. I found a NOS Falcon which looks a bit different from the ones I've got. The sump is a bit deeper, it's stamped AN 11 at the bottom of the sump and on the outer bottom of the bowl it's stamped FALCON with a falcon's head. The bit is of the dental kind. Beautiful honey coloured bowl.

I've paid $50 for it and it's an excellent smoker, right from the start. Super light weight and it needed no break in.

Any of the brothers can help me to determine when this pipe was made?

 

[mgtarheel]

Pictures, please

 

[SpeedyPete]

Pictures, please

It looks like any other Falcon. The stampings on the bowl has been marred by smoking the pipe and the AN 11 sits deep inside a "dimple" on the bottom of the sump. Can't be photographed with my cheap camera

The overall finish of the pipe is much neater than on my newer Falcons. The stem/bit is a wee bit longer than usual.

None of this will show up on a photograph, I'm afraid.

 

[RDPipes]

Maybe this will help ya a little, not much else out there about them.

Falcon Pipes

 

[allyby]

Same shape as this one I think, this is my one!

 

[SpeedyPete]

Same shape as this one I think, this is my one!

Yes, except that mine is ordinary aliminium

 

[alsmith52]

My name is Al and I just got registered. there is a site called smokingmetal run by Tony Pringle that has quite a history of Falcons, Kirstens, and any other metal pipe. He has a chronology of falcon pipes, from the patent and original manufacture in the US to the present. There are lots of pics too. Al

 

[riff raff]

Hmm Al Smith & Al Jones - you can never have too many Al's, even with alias-sounding names!
(welcome!)

The only way to really date a Falcon, to my knowledge, is by the COM mark . "Falcon" only stamp and no "Made In England" stamp on the bowl base, and it was made before 1968 (in the US). I think that is as definite is it gets.

 

[Ozark Wizard]

Here's a link that might help


http://www.smokingmetal.co.uk/allparts.php?gallery=2&partnum=1