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Brand Dating Guides
Weber pipes are hard to date. This guide gives the honest, wide windows.
Updated 2026-10-17
Welcome. If your pipe says Weber, this guide is for you.
Weber was a large pipe factory in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
It made middle-price pipes in very large numbers.
Weber pipes are hard to date. Our windows are wide, and we say why.
Each rule below has a rank: high, medium or low. Read the rank before you trust a window.
1911 to 1938
Carl B. Weber was born in Bavaria, in Germany.
In 1911, aged 21, he moved to the USA.
In 1938 he founded Weber Briars Inc. in Jersey City. The firm was later renamed Weber Pipe Co.
He also wrote a well-known book: Weber's Guide to Pipes and Pipe Smoking.
Our source gives no year for the book.
The Weber trademark is the word Weber inside an oval.
Line names you may see: Streamliner, The Scoop, Golden Walnut and Deep Grain.
A pipe stamped Rogers may also be linked to Weber. Pipedia only says apparently.
Weber stamped no year on its pipes. So we date by the name and the line.
around 1941
Wayne Leser patented a pipe design in 1941. Pipedia says it appears to be the Streamliner.
A photo caption on the same page says: Streamliner, about 1941.
We do not know how long Weber made it.
So our cabinet gives a wide window, 1940 to 1960, with a low rank.
Some Streamliners are not briar. They were still sold under the C.B. Weber name.
after 1950
After 1950, Weber made many pipes for other shops, under the shop's own name.
In New York, the same pipes were sold at Wilke, Barclay Rex, Trinity East and others.
Nearly all pipes for Wilke were unstained. The Wilke Danish Bent clearly came from Weber.
Such a pipe carries the shop's name, not Weber's. Only the shape and finish point to Weber.
So never call a shop pipe a Weber by its name alone.
the 1970s
In the 1970s Weber owned and made Jobey pipes. Tinder Box sold them in the 1970s and 80s.
Weber also bought Danish freehands from Karl Erik. These were sold as Jobey Dansk.
Custombilt pipes were made at the Weber factory from 1974 or 1975. Hollco Rohr owned the factory then.
In 1987 both Jobey and Custombilt moved to Butz-Choquin in France.
We have separate guides for Jobey, Custombilt and Karl Erik.
Our sources give no year for the end of Weber.
After the 1987 move to France, the trail goes cold.
So our cabinet closes the Weber window at 1995, with some slack. The rank stays low.
We know of no published Weber shape chart.
We have seen these numbers on single pipes, one source each: 115 billiard, 168 bent billiard, 215 straight billiard.
Also: 265 rhodesian, 370 poker, 375 poker, 415 billiard and 735 canadian.
A shape number tells the shape. It does not give a year.
Do not read a shape number as a year.
Do not call a shop-name pipe a Weber without a close shape and finish match.
Do not mix up Anthony Passante, who worked for Weber, with Tony Pesante. Pipedia warns about this.
Do not date a Jobey or a Custombilt by this guide. Use their own guides.
Each row comes from our Weber cabinet.
Weber in an oval
From the founding in 1938 to an end nobody has dated. 1995 is a ceiling with slack.
Streamliner
Built around the 1941 patent. One source only, and the length of the run is not known.
What We Don't Know Yet
Published deliberately. If you hold the catalogue, hallmarked example, or period document that closes one of these gaps, write to us — corrections are credited. Every open question across the encyclopedia is gathered on the Open Questions page.
Changelog
Sources
Holding a Weberyou can't place? Our shelves usually hold a few — documented to this same standard.
Weber in the Shop