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.
England, 1960s High titles, academic degrees, diplomas and medals are not necessary indicators of value and quality. Of course, it would be wrong to ignore all regalia too. But both people and pipes should be evaluated not only by clothes and marks.
Denmark, 1980s One of the most disputable business strategy topics sounds: shall we produce something what is easy and profitable to sell or shall we try to sell anyway something what we have produced? What is primary: production or sales? It seems that the discussion is almost theological: anybody won’t convince the other side of…
England, 1960s Once at the time of wild capitalism in the Wild West one businessman decided to decorate his “market” with an advertising. He chose an advertising slogan “Buy only from John!” without any deep philosophizing, set it up over the shop and went to sleep and dream huge profits. But in the morning Mr….
USA, 1930s While gentlemen in Chicago invented Dr. Grabow pipes (as far as the evening inaction and fishers talks allowed that), gentlemen in the State of New York developed business no less interesting, inventive and – as we’ll see later – very close to the legend of the most famous American doctor. There’s not too…
USA, 1920s Opposition of medicine and smoking is something crystal clear, unavoidable and not discussible in the modern world. We’re not going to participate in any flames “too harmful or not too harmful”. But of course we do have an own opinion regarding this matter. But we’d better rewind the tape of history for about…
England Unfortunately we should use the past tense very frequently when speak about smoking pipes manufacturers. Until today many of them phased down production or switched to different business, the huge number of manufacturers were acquired by Cadogan or Dunhill. However there are different stories.
France Long time ago, when we began our project we restored and published here a Colonel Henry Fraser lovat pipe. The pipe was lucky indeed. It was the firts pipe we have sold abroad, many people are still looking for this classical lovat at our site and search engines know that lovat requests should be…