The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-10-02
PIPES.
characteristics of the Styles which Some
of the Worlds smokers Prefer.

characteristics of the Styles which Some
of The Worlds Smokers Prefer.
Most Of the plain meerschaum pipes
sold nowadays are of practically the
same styles as briar pipes, and finished
and mounted in the same manner. OF
the once familiar meerschaum that
was substantially a meerschaum bowl
with a short upturned stem part, into
which a weichsel stempiece was insert
ed, comparatively few are now sold.
Many of the meerschaum pipes of to-
day are Of the bulldog pattern, and
many are made likewise straight
stemmed, but with bowls In various
rounded forms; n there are briar-
shaped pipes with droop stems. The
mountings are silver or gold bands, or
ferrules, around the stem part, where
the pit or mouthpiece is attached, and,
on some pipes. a mounting around the
top of the bowl. In these pipe mount
ings those produced by Americans ex-
Gel all others in stability and design.
With their production in modern styles
and in forms adapting them to the most
convenient and advantageous use has
come an increased demand for pipes of
meerschaum.
Such are the pipes usually bought by
the American or Englishman, who, IL he
smokes a meerschaum, wants a stout,
stocky. serviceable pipe. There are
sold, however, some meerschaums that
are modelled more on clay pipe lines,
with the stem part and m%outhpiece lit
tie IL any longer, but very much slen-
derer and lighter than those parts of
the pipes more commonly sold. But
while the American and the English
man prefer generally when they buy a
meerschaum a good solid pipe, the
Frenchman who smokes a ~meerschaum
wants a long and slender pipe, as also
dnaG the Italian Tho rlnfn raaA-
schaum pipe made for the French or
Italian smoker is in design substan-
TALLY like a clay pipe, with a bow of
the same general shape, though of finer
lines, and with the same long, slender
stem. But made of such a material as
meerschaum n beautifully finished,
and with a long, slender, delicate
m~outhpiece of amber. there is no dan
ger of the pipe being mistaken for n
clay pipe. Simple, and at the same time
quaint, as such pipes may at first APP
to one accustomed to them, they
may easily be objects of beauty, as vas
certainly. in an especial degree, one seen
in a shop where many such pipes were
displayed. 1t was finished in all but the
polishing; was about a foot in length,
including the delicate amber mouth
piece, which would measure perhaps
o inches. and the meerschaum was
of a smooth inc milky whiteness. while
the long. slender amber mouthpiece was
of light yellow, clouded with white.
Such pipes are made with the bowls
placed at different angles, as Is the case
with clay pipes. and the bowls are made
thin walled tina otherwise. in
keeping with the general character of
the pipe. These SENDER meerschaum
pipes are made. some of them. with the
stem fashioned to present a twist in
but most or them are made
with the stem straight and smooth.
are made. including the amber BIT
or mouthpiece, in varies lengths, the
price of the pipe depending on the
and as with other meerschaums
the quality. Such pipes have been
made 36 inches in length. Pipes Of from
J to IL inches in length are the pipes of
his kind most commonly sold.