Flea Bay, I'd say. Yep -- the days of picking up pre-republic Petes for $2.95 to maybe $15 are gone (they've all but disappeared except for the opportunists asking far more for them than they're fairly worth. They became a fad) (due, in part, to idiot here hyping them). Same with the better English marques.
But if you're going back to the era that what people nowdays consider "small" pipes were produced in large numbers (they used to be just normal pipes), it often turns out that the obscure named and chain-stamped ones were over-runs by Comoy, GBD and so on. Same pipes, different names, no commercial appeal to collectors of Names -- especially when the factory linkage is unknown. And more than old enough by now to be well seasoned indeed. When you're lucky enough to get one that hasn't had yucky stuff smoked in it, you're in business. And if not, there's a fix.
Case in point : a favourite little apple -- beautiful grain but some little fills -- stamped Drury Lane (the road that ran past the Comoy workshop). Postage cost as much as the pipe did. Smokes Embarcadero better than any of its "name" peers do, good as they are.
My dos centavos.
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