England “At James Upshall, no part of the production is trusted to pre-set machines or copy-fraisers. Each pipe is shaped on a single flat bed lathe by chisel and the craftsman’s artistic skill. Each James Upshall pipe is the result of perfect briar quality as well as the skill of the hand-turner, no two pipes…
Italy An Italian responce to the cult popularity of Dunhill white spot. Savinelli is the most known and respected Italian pipe manufactory, they always offer an extremely wide variety of shapes and series: from affordable everyday devices till excquisite luxury works of art. And their “Punto Oro” (“Golden Spot”) series looks like a real competitor…
France The series Maitre Pipier doesn’t belog to any specific manufacturer. Butz-Choquin, Chacom, Ropp, Jean Chretin, Jean Lacroix and others marked theirs most interesting and attractive pipes with this stamping to demonstrate their craftsmanship. At Butz-Choquin pipes of the “Maitre Pipier” series were crafted by Paul Lanier until he retired and after him by Alain…
France All available sources unambiguously classify the pipe as a Chacom product. The series is very probably named after Pierre Terrail, seigneur de Bayard (c. 1476 – 30 April 1524), “a French knight at the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, generally known as the Chevalier de Bayard. Throughout the centuries since his…
England Old good English pipe makers highly respected theirs customers. Also they really respected theirs resellers – a numberous tobacconists who represented the most tasty tobacco and the best samples of English pipe art almost in every city and small town. Some manufacturers (such as Comoys) willingly stamped pipe shop names instead of own marking….
USA, 1950s This pipe seems to be one of the first Kaywoodie Standard pipes: the series was introduced around 1950 and is still produced, but note the clover logo located on the top of the stem and the 4-hole stinger. That testifies undoubtedly that the pipe was made in the early 1950s the latest, before…