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Manfred Hortig/de

Er wuchs in Neuruppen auf, einer kleinen Stadt etwa 80 Kilometer nordwestlich von Berlin in der damaligen DDR, auch Ostdeutschland genannt. Nach seiner Schulausbildung machte er eine kurze Ausbildung zum Automechaniker, bis ihn eine Rückenverletzung zwang, seine Laufbahn zu ändern und in die Schule zurückzukehren, um Kurse in den schönen Künsten zu belegen. Dies kam seinen Interessen entgegen, da seine Großmutter immer sein Talent im Zeichnen und Malen gefördert hatte. Diese Fähigkeiten entwickelte er während seiner Schulzeit weiter, ebenso wie das Holzschnitzen und Drechseln. Er diente dem Staat und arbeitete in einem Kulturzentrum seiner Heimatstadt. Aber als die Mauer fiel und der Staat nicht mehr existierte, war auch dieser Arbeitsplatz verloren. Er ließ sich zum Landvermesser umschulen, wo ihm sein zeichnerisches Talent zugute kam, und blieb dort bis zu seiner Pensionierung im Jahr 2012.
Nach seiner Pensionierung kaufte ihm seine Frau Angelika eine Pfeife, die ihm so gut gefiel, dass er sich noch ein paar mehr zulegen wollte. Die Wirtschaft machte ihm jedoch einen Strich durch die Rechnung, und so begann er, seine eigenen Pfeifen herzustellen, aber dank seiner Fähigkeiten in Holzschnitzerei und Kunstverständnis waren es keine gewöhnlichen Pfeifen. Die Folge war, dass sie mehr als nur ein paar Blicke auf sich zogen, darunter auch die von sechs anderen Kunsthandwerkern, nämlich Roger Wallenstein, Uwe Maier, Steffen Mueller, Christian Wolfsteiner, James Gilliam and Martin Hansen. Und die E-Mails, Telefonate und gemeinsamen Interessen unter ihnen führten 2014 zu einem Treffen und der Gründung eines Kollektivs namens Grainstorm.
Das wiederum führte zu einer jährlichen Veranstaltung, die Uwe an Karnevalswochenenden in seiner Werkstatt in Balingen veranstaltete, bei der die Gruppe Pfeifen zu einem bestimmten Thema auswählte und herstellte. Die Ergebnisse waren, gelinde gesagt, atemberaubend. Bemerkenswerter waren die Einflüsse und Fähigkeiten, die die Mitglieder teilten.
Was Manfred in diese Gruppe einbrachte und in die Pfeifenherstellung einbringt, ist eine Reihe außergewöhnlicher Fähigkeiten, die sich in der Formgebung, Schnitzerei, grafischen Kunst und Fantasie zeigten und gut ausgeführt wurden.
Er tut dies in einem kleinen Arbeitsraum unter seinem Haus, der vor kurzem „beheizt“ wurde, wodurch seine kontinuierlichen Bemühungen das ganze Jahr über sichergestellt sind. Wenn er nicht gerade Pfeifen herstellt oder auf Reisen ist, ist er ein begeisterter Segler und auf der Pfeifenmesse in Deutschland aktiv, wo er seit 2014 keine Veranstaltung verpasst hat … mit Ausnahme der Landau Show 2024, die zu seinem 50. Jubiläum stattfand.
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=== Contact Information: ===
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Manfred Hortig/en

Manfred Hortig grew up in Neuruppen, small city about 50 miles northwest of Berlin in what at the time was the DDR, aka East Germany. Following his education he was briefly trained as an auto mechanic until a back injury forced a change of direction and a return to the classroom for courses in the fine arts. This suited his interests well as his grandmother had always fostered his talents in drawing and painting, skills which he further developed during his studies along with wood carving and turning. He served the State working at a cultural center in his hometown. But when the Wall came down and the State no longer existed, the job perished as well. He retrained as a surveyor, where his talent for drawing served him well and remained there until his retirement in 2012.
Upon retirement his wife, Angelika, bought him a pipe which he liked so much that he wanted to acquire a few more. However, economics intervened, the result being that he started making his own pipes. Drawing on his skills in woodcarving and art appreciation, they were not ordinary pipes. The results caught more than a few eyes, including those of six other artisan makers, to wit, Roger Wallenstein, Uwe Maier, Steffen Mueller, Christian Wolfsteiner, James Gilliam and Martin Hansen. And the emails, phones calls and mutual interests among them lead to a 2014 meeting and the formation of a collective known as Grainstorm.
That, in turn, lead to an annual event hosted by Uwe at his workshop in Ballingen during Karnival weekends wherein the group would decide and execute pipes around a given theme. The results were, to say the least, stunning. More remarkable were the influences and skills shared by the members.
What Manfred brought to that group and brings to pipe making is a set of exceptional skills demonstrated by the shaping, carving, graphic arts and imagination displayed and well executed.
 
He does so in a small workspace beneath his residence which recently became “heated” thus insuring his continuing efforts year round. When not pipe making or traveling, he is an avid sailor and active on the pipe show circuit in Germany where he had not missed an event since 2014 . . .excepting the 2024 Landau Show which occurred during his 50th anniversary.
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Manganaro

'From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes''
Manganaro is an Italian brand created by Antonio Manganaro, who began when he was 17 years old and is the third generation of family artisans. Still active, though now retired, he is today helped by his children.
He prefers classics, and uses briar from Calabria, making 1000 pipes a year.
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Category: Italy
Manhattan Briar Pipe Co.

The Manhattan Briar Pipe Co. was organized in October, 1902 by the American Tobacco Company, under an agreement with the owners of the Brunswick Briar Pipe Company, as a New York corporation. Its initial address was 111 5th Avenue, New York City, and the value of its stock in 1902 was $350,000.00. American Tobacco Company had itself been founded in 1890 by J. B. Duke through a merger between a number of U.S. tobacco companies, and was one of the original twelve members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1896. It was commonly called the "Tobacco Trust".
The majority of the stock in Manhattan Briar Pipe Company was immediately acquired by the American Tobacco Company after the company was organized, but the prior owners retained a controlling minority interest for some years. In October, 1906, however, the American Tobacco Company acquired the remaining shares of stock, and from that point on Manhattan Briar was the pipe making branch of American Tobacco. By 1911, however, American Tobacco had been dissolved in anti-trust litigation, and Manhattan Briar Pipe Co. became a separate concern.
Manhattan Briar Pipe Co. had started operations in 1905 in Jersey City, New Jersey, having taken on a lease for a ten year period in 1905, and maintained a factory at Marion, New Jersey, where the pipes were made. By 1913, former American Tobacco pipe department chair John Glossinger was the president of Manhattan Briar Pipe Company, and began a significant advertising push for high grade pipes, using the slogan "Don't spoil good tobacco by using a poor pipe". It appears from cases having appeared on the estate market that Manhattan also sold meerschaum pipes, most likely rebranded articles originally made by European craftsmen.
After the expiration of the Jersey City lease the Manhattan Briar Pipe Company maintained offices and a factory at 415-425 Greenpoint Avenue, Brooklyn, New York beginning in 1915, evidently under the direction of W. C. Bastian, who had been granted a patent for a chambered pipe stemunclear if it's https://patents.google.com/patent/US980476A otherwise seemingly identical to a Peterson P-Lip in 1910. An employee of the company, one J. Gianninoto, was granted a patent for a device meant to permit the emptying of a cuspidorhttps://patents.google.com/patent/US1249946 without the mess in early 1918, and the company continues to be listed in local directories through 1921. In 1922 Manhattan Briar was purchased by S.M. Frank and merged into that companyU.S. Government Printing Office, February 25, 1909. Report of Tobacco Industry (pp. 89, 269)..
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Manno

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes
Italian brand of Manno S.r.l. by Rosanna Martino. The company began in Calabria, then moved to Tuscany. They started as briar providers, then moved into producing bowls and half-finished pipes. They also make their own brand of mass produced pipes.
Contact Information:
 Manno S.r.l., 
 Website: briar-pipe@alice.it
 Loc. Poggio La Fossa - 
 58040 Casal di Pari (GR) Italia - 
 P. Iva 01353050535 
 Telefono: +39 0564 908735 - 
 Fax: +39 0564 908107 - 
 E-mails: info@briar-pipe.it -
MarTelo

Gustavo Cunha is the marTelo pipe maker. He is a nature lover and designer who is fascinated by pipes. Gustavo grew up in Diamantina, a small village deep into Minas Gerais state, Brazil. Dating back to colonial times, traditional culture, nature and beautiful landscapes are a great part of the daily lives of Diamantina's residents. Observing Diamantina's colonial architecture, Gustavo's interest was drawn by wood, which quickly became his favorite material and led him to graduate with a degree in design years later.
Working as designer for a modernist Brazilian furniture make, Gustavo had access to machinery that allowed him to make his first briar pipes, all freehands, but with classic English shapes as inspiration. In late 2013 he visited Tom Eltang, with whom he got the chance to learn about processes, tools, machines and the most important: a new life and work possibility. Back to Brazil, Gustavo bought all the necessary equipment to start his pipe making career and in April 2014 he became a full time pipe maker. He also more recently spent some time with Chris Asteriou and Konstantinos Anastasopoulos honing his craft, and readily admits he was influenced greatly by the young Greeks' work.
Gustavo Cunha uses only super dry Greek (Makis Minetos), Italian (Mimmo Romeo and Manno) and Algerian briar blocks.
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Today, Gustavo creates each Martelo pipe with precision and care from his workshop in Belo Horizonte. His goal is to perpetuate the pipe-smoking lifestyle, to offer a pipe with soul — a living object, a piece that brings happiness and calmness to his clients and friends.
Contact Information:
 Website: http://www.martelopipes.com/
 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/martelopipes
 E-mail: objetomartelo@gmail.com 
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Marchetti Pipes

Marchetti Pipes Currently down!
Philip S. DeFant, owner of Marchetti Pipes provides highly esteemed cleaning and rejuvenation services. As well the name is used for his fine handcrafted pipes made one at a time in limited quantities. Marchetti Pipes mix American, Italian & Danish pipe maker influences to craft it's original style.
The name Marchetti comes from Phil's grandfather, Philip Marketty, which was originally the spelled, Marchetti, before immigrating to America as stone cutters to work in the mines in Northern Michigan. Mr. Marketty was a pipe collector and iron miner in Michigan's Upper Penninsula town of Negaunee, Marquette County. Phil's pipes took his grandfather's name in tribute to the love of pipes his grandfather shared with him as a young boy during visits with his pipe collection.
Asked "Which young carvers would you consider the most promising worldwide?" in an interview in November of 2003, Lee von Erck (→ von Erck) answered: "The young North American makers are those I know the best, not having seen many new young Europeans. Michael Parks from Canada and Phil DeFant (Marchetti Pipes) are the two that come to mind."
Lee has been Phil's mentor in pipemaking, knowing him since he was in school and a hockey player on a team Lee coached. (Lee also attended school next his mother in Negaunee, MI.) Phil spent time at Lee's workshop whenever he could get home for vacation. After every visit, so Lee, there was a quantum leap forward in Phil's work. Not only his designs, but in his overall quality. If you look close at Phil's pipes you can, of course, see von Erck's influence on his work. Phil also joined him on a trip to Japan in early 2000 where his pipes were welcomed very friendly. The majority of Phil's pipes sold to the Japan market through Reiji Hachiro's Pipedo store prior to closure.
Phil and his wife Jennifer welcomed their first son in June 2007, Liam Oliver. The DeFant's family life has grown to busy to carry on the pipe business with the same level of quality & attention to detail at this time. Phil & Jennifer are known to produce one off custom pipes as special requests for past Marchetti Pipe customers.
 
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Marconi

There are hardly any informations about Giuliano Marconi. In 1999 he was mentioned as participant of an exhibition of fine handicrafts in northern Italy as "LA PIPA NELLíARTE".
In October of 2004 it was announced that Steven Johnson of Armada LLC, Emmaus, PA 18049, is importing and distributing the Italian-made line Marconi.
 Giuliano Marconi
 Via Dante Alighieri, 5
 10069 Villar Perosa (Torino)
 Italy
 
 Phone: 0121 - 809022
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Marechal Ruchon & Cie.

Marechal Ruchon & Cie. was a company owned by Auguste Marechal and Ferdinand Ruchon ("& Cie" is the french equivalent of "& Co") which owned the GBD brand from the end of the 19th century until 1902 when they sold Marechal, Ruchon & Cie. to Oppenheimer Pipe, which in turn changed the name of the company to Marechal, Ruchon & Co., Ltd.. Upon the creation of Cadogan, however, the brand was no more, remembered only in the name of the GBD Marcee pipes made until just after the Second World War.
For more information see GBD.
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Mario Grandi

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The Mario Grandi line was created in late 2006 by Aldo Pierluigi and his family as a sub-brand of their mainstay brand Mastro Beraldi.
Mario Grandi often show unusual and imaginative shapes - some really take getting used to. Every now and then you may find a pipe with some minor negligence concerning the workmanship. To give an example: the shank / stem junction sometimes shows a little split. Even though the quality is generally very high and you will hardly find any other (mainly) hand-crafted pipes at such affordable prices.
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Outside Italy Mario Grandi pipes are officially offered by *futurepipes* on eBay. More than 2,000 pipes have been sold since December 2006. The offers change almost daily.
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Mario Pascucci

Mario Pascucci lives in Pesaro and for over 30 years has worked in a famous workshop in his city. Note:(I think this is a cloaked reference to him being a pipemaker at Mastro de Paja --sethile (talk) 16:56, 2 January 2020 (CST)).
He recently embarked on a new adventure by realizing the dream of a lifetime: create pipes to be branded with his name!
Pascucci pipes are made completely by hand. He personally visits the sawmills to pick the briar destined to become unusually repeatable pieces from his workshop. The mouthpieces are in methacrylate with embedded a reflexed and overturned P.
Finishes are: rusticated, sandblasted, P1, P2, P3, and grained.
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Mark Stewart

Mark Stewart got his start in real estate in the Philadelphia area, financing, managing and developing substantial commercial real estate. During that time, he also launched Sports Management, Inc., through which he acted as a sports agent to some truly legendary names. After a his career, however, he retired to the mountains of Brevard, North Carolina and to a true passion of making and repairing pipes and being an active and much loved member of the pipe smoking community. Mr. Stewart blended Cornell & Diehl's Crooked Lane with the Tarlers, and repaired pipes for, among others, Bruce's Pipe Shop in Asheville, North Carolina. Mr. Stewart's history and skill is examined in the Spring, 2014 Pipes and Tobaccos Magazine in an article by Chuck Stanion titled "From high profile to high altitude" which may be read here. Those who knew his pipes accepted no others.
Sadly Mark Stewart became a broken pipe on July 15, 2015, leaving behind a loving family and a community greatly feeling the loss. 
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Marks

Andrew's website
Pictured bellow- Personal Collection # 27 -- A once in a lifetime briar burl transformed into an extraordinary pipe
Pictured bellow- Personal collection #61-- a maker's achievement in design and execution; pipe and stand cut from the same burl
Pictured bellow-- # 14 -- 6 1/2 x 2 1/8 -- Andrew's description: One of my very favorite pipes; equally grained on each side, elegant in hand or mouth or standing on the desk -- (Private Collection)
In 2005, Marks was elected into the exclusive society for pipe aficionados, the Pipe Smoker's Hall of Fame. Founded in 1969 by Colonel L. Edward Lawrence to honor those of "outstanding accomplishments and a devotion to pipes". The Pipe Smoker's Hall of Fame displays the pipes owned and smoked by each of its (just over one hundred) elected members.
From Andrew's site: "I am Andrew Marks, Pipemaker. Since 1969, I have had the rare privilege of sculpting my handmade briar pipes from the earth's oldest and most magnificent briar burls which I meticulously hand picked over a quarter of a century ago".
It is from one of these exquisite and venerable briar burls that I would take great pleasure in creating your own elegant one-of-a-kind Andrew Marks Handmade Briar Pipe.
*You might also enjoy listening to Brian Levine's interview of Andrew on the Pipes Magazine Radio Show, and continued into the following week here.
Contact information:
 
 Studio visits are by appointment:
 3641 Route 30
 Cornwall, VT 05753
 
 Orders and Inquiries: 802 . 462 . 2112
 (telephone contact is encouraged)
 
 E-mail: mailto:andrewmarkspipemaker@yahoo.com
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Mars

Mars pipe: According to Wilczak & Colwell in their book titled "Who Made That Pipe?" Mars was manufactured by Otto Sevic in the United States, and dates to 1930. This makes sense if the patent date stamped thereon is July 6, 1926. The side of the pipe is marked: "MARS, PAT. 7.6.26" indicating the design was patented on July 6, 1926. The patent was apparently for a filtering system built into the base of the bowl.
The pipe has a chamber built on the bottom of the bowl which is accessed through a black Bakelite cap. Inside is an aluminum chamber to catch moisture coming from the bowl. From the bowl bottom is a tube extending into the chamber and ending there a little above the cap. The cap appears to have an absorbent material like cotton or paper to absorb the moisture. And then through the shank is another aluminum tube which is ported into the shank and the stem is mounted with a normal tenon mount.
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Martin, Sam

Sam Martin
Sam was a part-time pipe maker from Little Rock, Arkansas. According to the "1987 Directory of American Pipemakers" (published by Pipe Collectors International (PCI)), he produced about 125-150 pipes per year. He passed away in 1992. Sam is reported to be the nicest guy you will ever meet, making pipes in a old garage behind his house while working full-time for the telephone company. Pipe making was his hobby--he made very rustic pipes with great briar. 
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Martin Pipe Company

Martin Pipe Company pipes were made by Hal M. Silverstein of Albany, New York, who sadly became a broken pipe on November 7, 2003 at 59 years of age. Mr. Silverstein was born in Syracuse and graduated from Syracuse University before serving in the Vietnam War as a Navy photojournalist embedded with the Navy Seals. Mr. Silverstein's pipes were stamped "Martin" and are rarely seen on the estate market.
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