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David Glen & Sons, circa 1910, cocuswood, nickel ferrules, new imitation ivory rings
These little button-mount cocuswood David Glen pipes are real gems: great character, rich and rock steady, and very light on the shoulder. This set originally had ivory caps, but they were replaced with artificial ivory with a very realisitc grain.
When I purchased these, it was with all parts original, but the chanter stock is a little ‘stockier’ than the tenor and blowstick stocks, and it is possible that this is an early replacements. Having said that, it appears to be cocuswood.
The pipes are in great shape and were recently stripped and refinished.
The fact that they are free of ivory makes them an idea travel pipe, or, as a good friend of mine calls them, ‘border pipes’!