England, 1960s Once at the time of wild capitalism in the Wild West one businessman decided to decorate his “market” with an advertising. He chose an advertising slogan “Buy only from John!” without any deep philosophizing, set it up over the shop and went to sleep and dream huge profits. But in the morning Mr….
USA, 1930s While gentlemen in Chicago invented Dr. Grabow pipes (as far as the evening inaction and fishers talks allowed that), gentlemen in the State of New York developed business no less interesting, inventive and – as we’ll see later – very close to the legend of the most famous American doctor. There’s not too…
USA, 1920s Opposition of medicine and smoking is something crystal clear, unavoidable and not discussible in the modern world. We’re not going to participate in any flames “too harmful or not too harmful”. But of course we do have an own opinion regarding this matter. But we’d better rewind the tape of history for about…
England Unfortunately we should use the past tense very frequently when speak about smoking pipes manufacturers. Until today many of them phased down production or switched to different business, the huge number of manufacturers were acquired by Cadogan or Dunhill. However there are different stories.
France Long time ago, when we began our project we restored and published here a Colonel Henry Fraser lovat pipe. The pipe was lucky indeed. It was the firts pipe we have sold abroad, many people are still looking for this classical lovat at our site and search engines know that lovat requests should be…
Denmark There is a quite frequent and contradictory practice when capable and professional specialists are promoted to manager’s positions. Nobody knows whether a promoted engineer will be a good manager. But he definitely won’t be as good specialist as before.
England, 1960s Internet is a huge shopping center, communication environment and a source of incredible number of articles, sometimes almost classified documents. For example, it was very interesting to read an internal Dunhill report dedicated to a meeting with Hermann Lane, owner of Charatan in 1973.
England Some people are valued and welcomed on their notable ancestors. Some other people are notable ancestors themselves in the essence for their talent, or a capital, or a power… Something similar happens to pipes too. Some are valued on family belonging to a known factory and a great name. And others are “notable ancestors”…
England We are not going to comment to much the recent referendum in Scotland. That’s actually a private question of Scots. We’d better light a pipe and once again watch James Bond adventures with Sean Connory or Bravehearth with Mel Gibson. Unfortunately there ‘s a small complication: Scotland is the country with quite hard smoking…
France This pipe’s got a lite touch of a mystery. Everyone knows that Dr.Plumb is a brand invented in 1925 by GBD for their middle range pipes and these Dr. Plumbs become soon very popular not only in France but on other markets as well. The appropriate production facilities were located in Saint-Clode area. But…