USA
The pipe markings are “BRADFORD \ IMPORTED BRIAR” . The lenghts is 14.0 cm, bowl’s hight is 4.4 cm. External and internal diameters of this bowl are 3.0 cm and 2.1 cm. The depth is 3.6 cm and this pipe weights 30 gr. Briar, vulcanite stem, air cooler.
USA “If you must smoke, make it healthful and pleasurable.” Details about David Jelling’s tobacco business are limited, with directories and catalogs providing little more than a brief mention of a tobacco shop in Newark that also sold pipes sourced from other suppliers. More information can be gathered from artifacts of the era, primarily matchbooks…
USA This is another one lightweight, practical and not too much smoked american pipe. It’s difficult to say which pipe chain wanted to resemble Charatan and was selling the “Executive” pipes. But that doesn’t matter: the wood is good enough, the grain is nice and interesting, the engineering of the pipe is really of a…
USA We can’t confirm that this pipe was cut out of briar of 1920 (but who knows, might by the carver did really found old stocks of “Doctor Grabow” or “Medico”), but the material was selected undoubtedly intelligently and with the excellent taste. Such grain could be a subject of pride for any Danish pipe…
USA, 1930s The pipe comes to us with the 1930s collection, so it’s probably one of the early Marxmans – the company has been founded in 1934 by Robert (Bob) L. Marx, former William Demuth Company employee and merged with Mastercraft in 1953. Allthough the company didn’t use very expensive briar, very fast Marxman pipes…
USA, 1950s A pipe born in a house with a view on Manhattan! Ludwig Stern was a successful pipe manufacturer since 1893. In 1911 he reorganized his company along with his brother Hugo. The new rebranded company “L&H Stern Smoking Pipes and Holders” initially resided on Manhattan, but moved to Brooklyn in 1920. Except the…
USA, 1930s An Americam pipe from a pre WWII pipe collection. It reminds some Ehrlich pipes, but the stamping font is a bit different. Despite the respectable age, it’s still a good device to test new tobacco or smoke while you’re hunting, fishing, walking – whatever you prefer to do.