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Heather pipe carved with the face of Guillaume TELL signed LAMBERTHOD
Horn stem sheathed in a silver-plated metal ring.
What we do know is that Louis Lamberthod made his machine at the end of the 19th century, and that it was sold in the late 1960s. It's worn out and will only be used for demonstrations.
For the moment, I don't know when Lamberthod stopped production. In my opinion, it was in the thirties at the earliest, and he may have continued for a while after the war.
In the Fifties/Sixties, the Wally-Frank firm sold pipes made in Saint-Claude, either in stores or by mail order as part of a "Pipe of the Month" subscription. It's possible that the Lamberthod company (if it was still in business, which I doubt) may have won a contract with them in this way.
This remains a hypothesis to be confirmed, as there wasn't just one pipe maker working with Wally-Frank. So it's quite possible that some or all of these pipes were made by Dalloz and Dessertine's successor, Aschenbrenner, who was still working at the time. The models sold by Wally-Frank, however, closely resemble the Lamberthod models.
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