Denmark An extraordinary Danish work! As every proper Danish pipe it’s made of a good briar, shows nice grain and has skilfully designed freehand shape. But the most of all we’re absolutely amazed with its sense of equilibrium – the pipe can surely balance just on its heel (back side of its bottom). Some signs…
France A genius detective, Mr Sherlock Holmes is traditionally associated with Peterson pipes, no matter that there’s no clear proof of that. It’s already a standard human perception. In such a case his famous colleague from another side of the Channel, Jules Magrait should be associated with Ropp pipes the most probably. And that’s absolutely…
England The pipe named after a very nice London place – the Golden Square located between the Upper John and Lower John streets in the city center. The most of the Redman pipes bear such topological signs and of course the popular middle range series was highly appreciated by consumers both due to smoking qualities…
USA, 1950s An American classics from 1950s, the era of rock’n’roll, big beautiful cars with loud radio receivers (is the series name a hint on the Oldsmobile Strafire? :-) ) and blossoming of many American pipe brands. Nevertheless, this Dr. Grabow’s Starfire with its wire carved finish can’t be confused with any other pipe from…
England, 1960s A Charatan’s pipe of “the second Lane era” (1965-76), the period of the brightest blossoming of this brand, delightful shapes and grains, which eclipsed all others pipe makers including Dunhill. There’s no shape number on the pipe, thus it was made by one of the leading carvers at this factory regardless any catalogues….
England, 1950-70s The lovat shape was initiated in early XX century and they say Colonel Henry Fraser, Lord Lovat smoked such pipes so the name was adopted in his honour. Several sources of information state that Gerald Grundging & Company was the first manufacturer stamped the name of Lord Lovat on the pipes of this…
Russia Just one of the most favourite pipes. It’s an excellent smoking device, never brought down and didn’t frustrate. Finally we found some time to clean it and take some pictures fo history and to brag. Well, and to recommend creatures of a workshop under the leadership of Vladimir Grechukhin – you won’t regret!
Please refer to vkpipes.com when use this information This famous picture above is perhaps the only broad known illustration to materials about John Redman LTD & British Empire Pipe Co. And the majority of sources doesn’t move usually far beyond a couple of sentenses: this company did really exist, it was located at this address…
England, 1960-70s A wonderful Lane Era Charatan’s made Ben Wade pipe. Although Ben Wade was a kind of a second or a sub-brand that time we didn’t identify any issues with the pipe – great briar, proper engineering, eye catching shape, nice grain. Sincerely recommended!
France Genod brand is in fact a separate and very old branch of the French Comoy’s tradition remained in St Claude while the company was migrated, sold to a new owner, merged. The oldest French Comoy’s workshop was named Comoy-David and only in the 1970s it was renamed to Genod. Another interesting detail is the…