![]() ![]() The lava overflow on the rim top filled in much of the sand blast. The bowl had a thick cake that had hardened with time. The finish looked intact under the grime and oils on the bowl sides from George’s hands. The briar appeared to be in good condition underneath the grime. The shank end is rounded and the stem is smaller and sits against the end of the shank. The sandblast finish on the pipe looks really good on this piece of briar. Jarl pipes are well made and I have found that they not mentioned much in the online pipe communities that I frequent. This was going to be an interesting restoration. The shape was interesting and though I have worked on quite a few Jarl pipes over the years this is the first one that I have seen marked T.V. This Jarl T.V.pipe was a nicely shaped pipe. When the box arrived from Jennifer, Jeff opened it and took photos of each pipe before he started his cleanup work on them. I have included the two photos of this pipe below. Jennifer took photos of the pipes she was sending. It had been sitting in boxes for a lot of years and it was time to move ahead with the restoration. Due to the dirtiness of the pipe the stem did not seat in the shank. The stem was badly oxidized and there were George’s usual tooth marks and chatter on both sides just ahead of the button. The pipe was a dirty and tired looking old pipe. It was hard to know at this point the condition of the rim edges. There was a thick cake in the bowl and it had overflowed with lava onto the rim top. The finish was very dirty, making it hard to see beyond that to the nice grain underneath that. The bowl is sandblasted with a smooth band on the rounded shank end and panel underneath for the stamping. The pipe on the table is stamped on a smooth panel on the underside Jarl Made in Denmark T.V. Once he had finished cleaning them all he sent them to me to do my work on them. With some great conversation back and forth she sent the pipes to Jeff and he started the cleanup process on them. We talked about the organization I work for that deals with trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and their children and she decided that would be a great way to carry on the charitable aspect of her Dad’s character. The only requirement she had was that we give a portion of the sales of the pipes to a charity serving women and children. Here is the catch – she did not want to sell them to me but to give them to me to clean up, restore and resell. My brother Jeff and I have been picking up a few estates here and there, so I was interested. I received an email from Jennifer about whether I would be interested in her Dad’s pipes. You may not have read about this estate before, so I will retell the story. For the next pipe from the estate of George Rex Leghorn I have chosen a shape I would call a Churchwarden. I decided to change things up a bit and work on another of Jennifer’s Dad’s pipes.
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