France “Lupenrein” is a German word meaning “flawless”, “perfect”, “clean” (f.e. “clean diamond”) and we really couldn’t identify any issues with briar. Also interesting that the number 309 for such canadian shape pipes was widely used by Comoy’s during its best times and we suspect even refined experts couldn’t distinguish the pipe and English made…
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…
France One of the best-known pipe companies, Comoys, existed long time as the distributed family business. The founding father Henry Comoy emigrated in 1879 from France to England, but the St Claude factory remained for a long time the supplier of briar and turned bowls . Soon management passed to Henry’s sons who took in a share theirs…