American Smoking Pipe Co. (Mark Tinsky/Curt Rollar) Freehand Bent Dublin (late 1970s-early 1980s) Tobacco Pipe

An early American Smoking Company freehand. Sykes places this pipe from the 70's (heck, I didn't even know Mark was that old!). The shape, while still pretty much staying within conventional lines, does have something of a freehand attitude about it, and the grain is quite delightful.

--Bear Graves

An early American Smoking Company freehand. Judging from the fluid freehand shape and stem work; I believe that this piece was carved by Curt Rollar in the mid eighties. This pipe sits at an angle on a massive plateau base, and much of the grain on the body is exemplary. While I (personally) am having a dickens of a time trying to find a comfortable hand position for the composition, with a pipe this striking, it would come to me.

--Bear Graves

Addendum:

This pipe was made in 1979. The AmSP was used only in 1979. The American oval replaced this in January 1980.