Denmark, 1960s For the readers of our local site we continue publishing of our translation of the article written by Preben Holm (the English text is available at the pipedia.org). For everyone else we are glad to represent one of Preben Holm pipes made in late 1960’s.
Ireland, 1940s Speaking shortly, escapism is a definition for the escape from reality. More widely this is an aspiration of the personality to “remove themselves from the rigors of daily life”, caused by some stressful factors. Any vigorous activity (career, art, sport, fashion, role-playing games, sex, religion etc.) can become the way of escapism. Moreover…
England, 1950-60s Children should have some degree of a freedom. Especially such “children” as the Parker trademark. That’s very well known story: the Parker company was founded by Alfred Dunhill in 1922 for the quite utilitarian purposes: to finish and market pipes which didn’t went into production as the Dunhill ones. However, this split happened…
England No, let’s not begin so frighteningly. Are here any psychologists reading us? What they think about a collecting: is it a disease or not? On the one hand, the majority at one of the professional forums took quite a sober position “why not if you’re happy with this?”. On the other hand, one of…
Denmark, 1970s For the readers of our local site we continue publishing of our translation of the article written by Preben Holm (the English text is available at the pipedia.org). For everyone else we are glad to represent one of Preben Holm pipes made in 1970’s in cooperation with Charatan’s.
Denmark For the readers of our local site we continue publishing of our translation of the article written by Preben Holm (the English text is available at the pipedia.org). For everyone else we are glad to represent one of Preben Holm pipes made in 1970’s in cooperation with Charatan’s.
England, 1930s While the hands are busy with a restoration (and sometimes a reanimation) of the next pipe, the mind is busy with… random things indeed. Well, it’s almost not busy and can be used for anything you prefer: to listen to a music, to watch a film, to improve your English (Spanish, Hindi, Hebrew),…
England, 1967 It seems we talk about Charatan’s pipes very frequently. This Charatan’s, another Charatan’s, “Dunhill killer”… At the same time Dunhill’s pipes successfully beat all competitors and remain at the top of glory, popularity and commercial success.
England, 1950s Smurfs are fantastic creatures (appeared at first in comics, and then in the animation) who escaped an angry wizard and appeared in the Central park of New York. Despite the blue color they are simply little men – with all manners, grimaces and habits specific to people.
Denmark, 1970s For the readers of our local site we start publishing of our own translation of the article written by Preben Holm (the English text is available at the pipedia.org). For everyone else we are glad to represent one of Preben Holm pipes made in 1970’s in cooperation with Charatan’s.