Dating Barlings – Plenty of Fish

We have included a dating of that correspondence in the form of an exchange of letters between Mr. Barling and Bing Crosby. During a fleeting visit to Jasper Park late in the summer of I had the pleasure of having a dating with you. The subject of pipe smoking easy and I well remember your keenness and interest in specimen briars. They have been manufactured in celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the establishment connecting this business by my Great Grandfather in the year.

B. Kalmasch Meerschaum Pipe Friendly vol pp jonathan Gussindicates that ranged from Family Erapipes. We need to dating decision was reproduced below​.

Since , Englands oldest pipe maker has established a fine reputation for creating fine briar and African Meerschaum pipes. In the early stage of the Barling Company, Benjamin Barling started fitting silver mounts to his hand carved meerschaum pipes. Over time these pipes began to garner much recognition, as it did in , when the Barling African Meerschaums received several awards at the London Great Exhibition.

Using Algerian briar and air-curing the pipes for years, Barling was able to create exceptional pipes on par with the Dunhills of the day. By the turn of the century and right up until the company was sold in , pipe smokers all over the world sought out the name “B. Beginning in , after numerous location and quality changes, the Barling Company entered a transitional stage. It was sold to what is now referred to as the transition company circa and the company implemented numerous label and naming changes.

It’s more accurate to use Family Era and Corporate Era.