The pipes are not stamped meer lined so if you run across one be careful with the reamers so that you don’t crack them, they seem to fall prey to that from the only few I could find any pictures of. All the 1930’s-1941 examples I have found seem to be meer lined and carry the prefix of 56. Seems they were made up until the beginning of World War II. In the 1930’s- early 1940’s five dollars would be about almost a 100 dollars today. I dig some digging in online Magazines on Google and could only find one ad from Popular Mechanics dated Dec.1941. The “ drinkless logo” on the stem has been replaced by a clover and a 4 digit shape number has been attributed indicating thus the entry of the Shellcraft into Kaywoodie’s lines.”
“The pipe is sandblasted while the early Shellcraft was rusticated. I have seen a few on the pre- 1930’s push stem rusticated version’s but was not familiar with the post 1930’s sandblasted synchro stems. I did some research on the Shellcraft line and they seem to be a rarer Kaywoodie line. Unscrewed the stem and it was indeed cut. Again no problem i thought, easily fixed. Stem had some tooth marks and the seller had listed the stinger was cut. Well we were both wrong, but we will get to that. I thought well it shouldn’t be that hard of a repair and the seller told me in a message that he could not see any cracks in the bowl. This is most likely why I won the pipe so easily and with a low bid. My main concern was it had a meer lining that was damaged about the rim. The blast looked really nice and looked in general really nice shape. Being a pre-World War II sandblast and one of my favorite Kaywoodie shapes (51). I recently acquired this 1930’s 4 digit Kaywoodie Shellcraft #5651 from Ebay.
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