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 Jeantet is really a very old French company, the firm of the Jeantet family in Saint-Claude is first mentioned as early as 1775. But on the beginning it was a manufacturer of wooden shanks for porcelain pipes and cherrywoods. Production of briar pipes has been started in 1858 and all these years the company…
France A really nice French work – typical for Butz-Choquin wideshanked lovat with the eye catching grain! That’s another one proof that French pipes can compete any world-known brand.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”.
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…
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…