THILSHEAD ENGLAND by JAMES UPSHALL ESTATE TOBACCO PIPE, BRANDY SHAPE, VINTAGE FROM 1980’S ORIGINAL SOCK! THIS PIPE IS IN MINT CONDITION! It’s A TILSHEAD made by James Upshall London Factory. However the pipe is not marked with J. UPSHALL logo, but it has the Markings of THILSHEAD ENGLAND. UPSHALL pipes, this one is again, a very well representation of the high quality standards they had. The briar used had been aged, and this pipe más made back in the 80’s, the flavors it pulls from the tobacco are incredible. Is a super well balanced pipe, Brandy shape, very accurate proportioned, thick Briar walls and a Chamber that makes perfect combustion ALWAYS. IF you want to own a piece of old school English top performer pipe without braking your bank account This is YOUR pipe! In 1978, Barry Jones joined Major Kenneth Barnes, then Charatans’ managing director, and his son Kennedy Barnes who started his own pipe company in Tilshead, Wiltshire, making the Tilshead and James Upshall premium class pipe, which took it’s name from the Major’s ancestry, one James Archelaus Upshall, an ardent pipe smoker, who loved quality and perfection. Ever since the company has been making hand turned, straight grained pipes for the smoking connoisseur and has gone from strength to strength gaining fame and the utmost respect as one of the greatest hand made pipe companies. Richard Carlton Hacker, author of “The Ultimate Pipe Book” has stated that, Barry has an almost uncanny knack of finding the best concentration of grain. His Upshall pipes are so distinctive you can immediately spot them in any pipe rack. It’s this grain pattern and quality that collectors prize so highly. The raw material we use for hand-turning pipes is specially selected naturally dried plateau Briar from Greece. As opposed to the kiln dried ebauchons, our briar guarantees lightweight, and tremendous properties for absorbing heat, as well as tobacco moisture and ensures a sweet smoke. Plateau blocks of considerable age, are of added benefit to the real pipe smoker; a rich mature graining which infrequently result in a perfect straight grain or birds eye pipe. Each block of plateau briar is an individual piece of nature, which has to be treated and worked accordingly. The turner’s art is to transform a well seasoned and naturally dried block into a flawless pipe, which will give its owner years of smoking pleasure due to its perfect smoking characteristics and great beauty. At James Upshall, no part of the production is trusted to pre-set machines or copy-fraisers. Each pipe is shaped on a single flat bed lathe by chisel and the craftsman’s artistic skill. Each James Upshall pipe is the result of perfect briar quality as well as the skill of the hand-turner, no two pipes are identical. Nature and man work together to create the optimal pipe. All models are old English shapes influenced by the hand-turner’s creative mind. King Hussein of Jordan, Anwar Sadat, Bing Crosby, Yul Brynner and more recently Arnold Schwarzenegger, Robert Wagner and Tom Selleck to name but a few of the famous names who have helped to cement James Upshalls’ reputation as the Rolls Royce of Pipes. STAMPED: As shown in the photos. APPROXIMATE SIZE & WEIGHT. 6 inches / 152,4 mm. 1,77 inches / 45 mm. 79 inches / 20 mm. Chamber Depth: 1.61 inches / 41 mm. 1,63 OZ / 46 grams. Very well proportioned Bowl with nice capacity! Every James Upshall Pipe is UNIQUE!! There’s no 2 look a like, because they worked every block of briar depending on grains pattern! So don’t loose the opportunity to own this Originall Master Piece of Art! Please check my other listings.