Arlington

Arlington, in full the Arlington Briar Pipes Corporation, is an American pipe workshop founded in 1919 in the Brooklyn borough of New York. Its name usually stays in the background of pipe history because it rarely appeared on the pipes it made: the company's real business was not selling under its own brand but filling other firms' orders. Records indicate the workshop operated at the same Brooklyn address for close to sixty years.

Working as a Subcontracting Workshop

Arlington's operation is a typical example of a model common in the twentieth-century American pipe industry. The factory worked briar blocks and finished the pipe, but the product came to market under the stamp of the tobacconist or brand that had placed the order. As a result, most of the pipes the company made circulate today under other names.

Among the brand names the company used for itself, besides Arlington, are Briarlee, Firethorn, Kimberly, Krona, and Olde London; dozens more names were added to these over time. Despite this abundance of names, the only one on record as having been formally registered is Arlington: the application filed in 1962 is reported to have been finalized in 1964. Most of the remaining names appear to have been used simply as stamps, without registration being deemed necessary.