GENOD

GENOD

France

Imagine a monastery isolated from the world somewhere far away in mountains or in a wood. The time is going, but old books, old ceremonies are keeped here, a language don’t used in the world anymore sounds within these walls… Similarly Genod brand is in fact a separate and very old branch of the French Comoy’s tradition remained in St Claude while the company was migrated, sold to a new owner, merged. The oldest French Comoy’s workshop was named Comoy-David and only in the 1970 it was renamed to Genod.

​​The pipe markings are “Genod \ SAINT-CLAUDE. FRANCE”. The length is 15.0 cm (5.9″), bowl’s hight is 5.3 cm (2.09″). External and internal diameters of the bowl are 3.9 cm (1.53″) and 2.0 cm (0.79″). The depth is 4.4 cm (1.73″) and this pipe weights 47 gr. Briar, acrylic stem, no filter. The chamber has been protected with a break-in coat.


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