Rare Leonard Payne 360° Straight Grain Prince Briar Pipe Handmade in Canada

  
We just unpacked the last eighty pipes from my extensive collection as I scale back for retirement. Here's a rare one.. A 1984 Leonard Payne "Shannon" Prince 360° straight grain - made in Canada. Cleaned, sterilized, polished and in great shape. You'll see very few Leonard Payne pipes on here, and I've never seen a straight grain offered. Pipe makers are not on every street corner in Canada! Leonard Payne, originally from England, didn't know the challenges he would face and that's probably what influenced his decision to come and try his luck in Canada. After his arrival in 1957, he and his family settled in Vancouver, where he first found work as a tool maker - and made pipes in his free time.

In 1959, he decided to become a full-time pipe maker, and since then he has had department stores in all parts of Canada among his clients. He imports briar blocks from Italy and pipe stems from England. Leonard Payne just passed away in the Vancouver area within the last few years. Payne was, to put mildly, an idiosyncratic pipe maker.

I can do no better than quote Pipepedia. Leonard Payne was gruff as the day is long. When you bought a pipe, it was handed to you in a paper bag. Most of his pipes carried what he called a'carburetor' fitting at the shank/stem junction. Another Payne idea was his take on shanks.

Almost all his pipes were two pieces. He'd turn the bowl and shank, then cut off the shank and reattach with glue (not always with the same piece of briar, so many did not match grains). His thinking was that the shank being the weakest link, if cut and glued would never break and thus'correcting' the weakest link.

This pipe is beautifully grained, very sturdy, and a terrific cool smoker. I doubt that you'll ever see one like it especially here in the lower 48. I bought it in Banff Canada on vacation years ago and it is a little gem. Be sure to check out my other fine and rare pipes, and lighters etc. From a fifty year collection of an avid pipe collector - now scaling back for retirement from a collection of around 500 pieces to a seven day rotation. Lighters, Smoker's Ephemera and Incredible pipes of finest makers from England, Ireland, Italy, Scandinavia, and the USA. Almost all are around 25 years old, some 50, 70, or in a couple of cases, 100 years old.

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