FRENCH PIPES

  • BUTZ-CHOQUIN Camargue 1710

    France The Camargue is a natural region located south of Arles, France, between the Mediterranean Sea and the two arms of the Rhône delta. With an area of over 930 km2 (360 sq mi), the Camargue is western Europe’s largest river delta. It is a vast plain comprising large brine lagoons or étangs, cut off…

  • Francois Comoy

    France Despite English pipes are usually the most collectable, valuated and respected and a number of the most famous brands are English brands, we shouldn’t forget that many of them have French origin or are related to France. GBD was a French manufactory from the beginning, Dunhill gladly placed orders at French manufactories and of…

  • BUTZ-CHOQUIN Calabash De Luxe

    France A calabash shape (some call it “a bell”) was always highly appreciated by collectors as the most associated with the smoking pipes history and ancient traditional shapes. Therefore many companies and artisans offered their interpretation of the calabash pipe; and of course such a famous French manufactory as Butz-Choquin couldn’t lose the opportunity to…

  • BUTZ-CHOQUIN Galion 1662

    France Many experts claim French pipes are substantially underestimated and shadowed off by English and Italian products. At the same time a number of the greatest brands, such as Charatan’s, Comoy’s, GBD, were founded in France and only later moved to the UK. And of course we shouldn’t forget bright Sant-Claude phenomenon, a kind of…

  • DAVIDOFF 102

    France Zino Davidoff (1906-1994), one of the most famous tobacco businessmen and revolutionary (even iconic) people of the XX century’s culture said “the pipe is a valuable companion, the essence of tranquility and must be smoked with respect”.

  • ROPP De Luxe cherrywood

    France The absolute majority of our pipes are made of briar. Nevertheless we’re glad to make an exclusion for this French Ropp cherry wood pipe. In the XX century Ropp was for French smokers the same as Dunhill for English people or Peterson for Irishmen – a synonym to the “smoking pipe” concept . Though…

  • JEAN LACROIX Brittany

    France, unsmoked An export brand made by Jean Lacroix (†2007). The Lacroix family is one of the oldest French dynasties in the pipe making. The founder, Eugine Lacroix began with the Delacour factory back in the 19 century, his son and grandsons launched own workshop (1921) and registered own brand (later in 1962). The most…

  • Lord Nelson bulldog

    France, unsmoked A nicely made (and still unsmoked!) French bent bulldog pipe made approximately in the last decades of the XX century. Some sources claim the “Lord Nelson” brand was made by Comoy’s in England but the lily logo on the stem indicates its French origin, the most probably Chacom or some other St Claude…

  • ROPP Spira Brevete S12

    France, 1950-60 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…