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Silver Lining Briar

Silver Gray of Silver Lining Briar.
thumb|200px|right|Silver at Chicago Show, 2015
With a name like Silver Gray, you can imagine a unique individual. Silver is one of the very few women pipemakers in the world and fewer of the United States. Her artistry has developed from years as both a fabric artist/seamstress and potter. The design and flow of her pipes is a progression of that experience.
Silver has now chosen to expand her artistry under the master pipemaker, Brad Pohlmann. While sitting in Brad’s shop one day, bored, she decided to try her hand at working with briar. Not wanting to assume she could make a functional pipe, she instead started carving scraps of briar into hearts. She wanted to learn how the briar responded to different applications of carving, sanding, and staining. Excited at the results, she began studying the various styles of pipes and began designing her own pipes.
Silver’s first pipe was a Dublin style pipe which she kept and smokes regularly. She then expanded her pipes into some traditional and some of her own design. She admits that the lathe was one of the hardest pieces of equipment to learn. After watching Brad at the lathe, after asking many questions, after making mistakes, she now drills her own bowls and airways. All of her mouthpieces are hand carved from ebonite and Cumberland.
Silver’s production of pipes is limited to less than 20 pipes per year as she only works on them on nights and weekends. Each pipe is carefully designed, carved on a grinding wheel, drilled, sanded by hand, securitized, re-sanded, stained, and polished.
Working under a master pipemaker has elevated Silver’s learning curve. She admits the quality of her work would not be the same without his careful, patient, tutelage. Brad and Silver’s shop is located just behind their house which makes it easy to slip out to the shop for a few minutes only to notice hours later how much time passed.
You can follow Silver on Facebook, Instagram, Etsy, and by contacting her directly at 541-941-5500 or silvergraypipes@gmail.com. She also has pipes available at Tobaccopipes.com
You may also enjoy listening to Brian Levine's interview with Silver on the PipesMagazine Radio Show
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: United States
Sims

1. Quoted from Mr. Mordechai Ezrati, proprietor of James Upshall:
"G.W. Sims was my favourite pipe maker in the 60’s. He had a little workshop just over the bridge towards Islington, London and every so often I used to make the 50 mile trip to visit him and purchase some of his fabulous pipes, which turned into a collection of nearly 300."
G.W. Sims was one of the few English pipe makers who produced Danish style freehands carved from specially selected plateaux briar. Mr. Sims willingly made pipes to personal specifications.
The nomenclature (normally on the base of the shank) reads: "G W SIMS" (in script). In addition, some were stamped "LONDON MADE".
2. Elder information:
"G.W. Sims closed in the late 70's. It was a tobacconist on High Holborn, London. From my research one of thier pipe makers was ex Charatan. Hence some of thier styles and finishes were similar."
3. I knew George Sims in the late 70's and early 80's. He moved to a shop in Junction Road N8, and sold me many interesting pipes, including several 'coffee pipes' as he called them. Miniature apple style pipes, each big enough for a smoke over a cup of coffee. He happily showed me his machinery in the back of the shop, although his sister who was often present kept trying to get him to stop gossiping and go back to work! Lovely man and a great craftsman.
Category: Pipe makers by nationalityCategory: Great Britain
Sina & Cie

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes
Sina & Cie was a late 19th century factory. In 1906 the merger with C.J. Verguet Freres produced a large factory owned by the Oppenheimer Pipe Group, run by Lucien Verguet. Brands included Old Brian, Sina, Sporta, Veni, Vidi, and Vici.
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: France
Sir del Nobile

Sometime in the early 1960's S.M. Frank & Co. Inc. set up a subsidiary in Livorno, Italy called KYM Europe Srl. This location was to operate and act as a warehouse and distribution facility of S.M. Frank products in Europe, Africa, South-East Asia, the Middle East and neighboring areas.
Along with KYM Europe, a pipe manufacture named Sir del Nobile was established in 1965 and amalgamated with Kaywoodie, Yello-Bole and Medico pipes (hence KYM!). The firm specialized in the production and distribution of Medico pipes and filters throughout Europe.
Quotation: "It's craftmen are some of the best of the “Maremma School”. Over the years these craftsmen, gifted with expertise and imagination and a lifetime's experience in that sector, have branched out from producing 6 and 9 mm Medico pipes considered to be of the highest standard of medium quality, have become in addition specialized in the production of a pipe of top quality, the Sir del Nobile.
The Medico pipes and the Sir del Nobile are appreciated throughout the world for their refined style, taste and elegance."
: When S.M. Frank closed the Richmond Hill plant in the early 1980's, they had pipes produced by several other Italian pipe manufactures, too. Thus all brands offered by S.M. Frank were Italian made for a while. Because the quality of these pipes was not up to the fixed standards, these arrangements ceased soon in favor of a domestic pipemaker. In 1992, S. M. Frank purchased this supplier in Tampa, Florida to maintain better control of quality and production. All US briar Kaywoodie, Yello-Bole, and Medico pipes, as well as private label pipes, are produced at this facility.
Today the Italian subsidiary continues the tasks of KYM Europe along with the production and distribution of Sir del Nobile and Medico 6 and 9 mm pipes, Medico corn cobs, Medico filters and other smoking accessories.
 Sir del Nobile Pipes Srl
 - Contact Mrs. Pamela Cresci -
 Via Amendola 3
 57023 Cecina (Livorno)
 Italy
 
 Phone & Fax: +39 0565 794721
 E-mail: mailto:info@delnobilepipe.com
 Website: http://www.delnobilepipe.com/ (dead link)
Category: Pipe makers by nationalityCategory: Italy
Skapi

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes
Skapi is a Swedish brand/factory, the acronym of Skandinaviska Pipfabriken, in Uddevalla. It was founded in 1936 by Max D. Schwab, who was descended from a German family of pipe artisans. Skapi, which made classic shapes and system pipes, closed at the end of the 1960s.
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Sweden
Skikda

It seems likely that Skikda pipes are connected to the Amiel brand founded (1923) by Raoul Amiel in Philippeville (Skikda, Algeria). The factory employed about 30 persons in the early 1960s when it closed down. It is the only known pipe producer to have been headquartered in Skikda.
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Skovbo Piber

Skovbo Piber is the brand by Jan Skovbo. After a period in which pipe making was his principal activity, it is now a hobby for Jan. His pieces have both quality and beauty.
 
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Contact Information:
 Jan Skovbo 
 Website: http://sites.google.com
 Markskellet 16 
 4673 Rødvig 
 Danmark   
 E-mail: :skovbojan8@gmail.com
 Website: http://sites.google.com/site/piberskovbo 
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Denmark
Update: From an email directly from Soren "Jan" Skovbo: Jan is the pipe make for Skovbo Piber, but he is NOT the Skovbo that worked with Nording in the 1960's of the SON brand. The SON Skovbo was his Uncle, his mother's brother, his name was Aage Skovbo. He died around 2009. Aage Skovbo did continue to make pipes during his lifetime. The simple SKOVBO stamping belongs to his pipes.
Skovgaard

By Lasse Skovgaard
My name is Lasse Skovgaard Jørgensen, I am 22 years old (2006). I live in Denmark on the southern part of Zealand, where I enjoy my life as a Danish pipe maker.
 Since I was a little boy, I’ve been interested in what my father (Benni Jørgensen) was doing in his workshop. At the age of sixteen I started to make buffalo horn tampers for W.O.Larsen, and I also tried to make a couple of “pipes”, (my father did not think they looked like pipes) but they were not good enough.
After making like a hundred pipes, they started to look better and better and of course with just a little help from my father. I realized that it definitely was not easy to even make a pipe functional, and it also has to look beautiful and elegant. With lots and lots of practice it got easier, and when I was about eighteen I started to make “two tone” and “select” pipes for W.Ø. Larsen.
Along with my education in high school, I was practicing making pipes in my father’s workshop. I was nineteen years old when I started to make the W.O.Larsen straight grains.
Teddy Knudsen is a friend of my father; I spoke to him about the big pipe show in Chicago. Teddy told me to try and come to the show in Chicago and bring pipes stamped with my own name.
I went to the 2004 Chicagoland International Pipe & Tobacciana Show with a batch of 12 smooth pipes.
I could not have wished for a better welcome; everyone treated me very friendly and it was a lot of fun to meet many of the other pipe makers in the world. I sold out all 12 pipes at the show.
The next year in Chicago 2005 I brought 75 pipes and a lot of them were sandblasted pipes.
My sandblasted pipes seemed to be extremely popular and I sold out all my pipes again.
After attending the show in Chicago I am now selling my pipes in many countries around the world.
=== Contact Information: ===
 Email: mailto:skovgaardpiber@hotmail.com
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Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Denmark
Slazansky

Patrick Slazansky is pipemaker from Slovakia. He live in Bratislava - Slovakia capital city. 
He made ​​120 pipes only - but his career is promising. His works, although "amateur" but slowly crystallizes into perfect works of art.
Other photos: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/108079113611360243665/albums
Reviews: http://briarmeditations.blogspot.sk/2012/07/patrick-slovansky-little-different.html
Last review on pipesmagazine.com: http://pipesmagazine.com/blog/pipe-reviews/patrick-slazansky/
Smokemaster

Smokemaster pipes are unusual in that they had two different makers in different time periods, and in the style of their tenon. The tenon had a single aluminum inner tube and two holes which were meant to hold a pipe cleaner folded in half, one end in each hole. The pipes were first made by Briarcraft, in lines including the Custom-made, Standard, and Bard. That company went out of business in the 1950s. In 1967 Dr. Grabow bought the rights to the name and the system, and began producing Smokemasters in three lines, stamped 100, 200 and 300. These pipes had a red diamond logo on the stem.
In addition, both Briarcraft and Dr. Grabow made Smokecraft pipes which were not stamped with that name, but with L. L. Bean. The pipes continued to be produced into the 1990s in Sparta, North Carolina, and were offered as a mail order pipe on packets of Dill Pipe Cleaners at one point. They are no longer produced.
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File:LLBean14.jpg|thumb|Add for L.L. Bean, including a pouch, and what is likely a Briarcraft second
*See also Briarcraft
Category: Pipe makers by nationalityCategory: United States
Smokers' Haven

=== A Brief History of Smokers' Haven ===
In June of 1940 Smokers' Haven was opened by its founder Joseph Zieve, his wife Ina, and his brother in-law Sid Ritter. Joe and Sid were pioneers in the Retail market of pipes and tobaccos, and established a real Specialty Tobacco shop. From 1940 until the late 1970's, Smokers' Haven was one of the largest and most distinguished Pipe and Tobacco shops in the world with an inventory of over 10,000 English pipes and a range of some of the best Pipe Tobacco Blends. Joe and Sid would take frequent trips to England to develop new tobacco blends and new shapes for GBD pipes so they could offer unique and quality products for their customer base which numbered over 60,000. In the late 1970's and early 1980's, the pipe market started to dwindle and many of the pipe and tobacco suppliers discontinued their products. In 1983, Joe Zieve retired and sold Smokers' Haven. The 2nd owner did not adapt to the market, and Smokers' Haven almost disappeared. In 1987, my father Arvind Chheda, purchased Smokers' Haven and rescued it from demise. Throughout the late 1980's and 1990's Cigars were the primary focus for Smokers' Haven. In 1999, I was passed the torch, and I have taken an interest in Pipes, and the methods in which Joseph Zieve serviced his customers. From 2000 to present, Smokers' Haven has re-introduced the Specialty Products it was known for, and I hope to create a similar experience for our customers that Smokers' Haven did in the past.
Courtesy, Premal Chheda, Smokershaven.com See also, Chheda Pipes
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Contact Information:
 Smokers' Haven
 Website: https://www.smokershaven.com/
 7919 Station St. 
 Columbus, Ohio 43235
 USA
 E-mail: info@smokershaven.com
 Phone: 614.299.2442
Category:Tobacconists
Snahti

snahti pipes on eBay
Hans Wormit started out offering refurbished estate pipes on eBay in 1999 as "derpfeifendoktor". His hobby soon turned into a passion and he started making his own pipes. As so many others he made a humble beginning using pre-drilled stummels with pre-moulded stems. Around 2003/2004 he offered first pieces on eBay. Improving his skills step by step Hans Wormit's "hansmade" snahti pipes found increasing popularity among pipe smokers who are in search of well-made but affordable freehands.
The first snahtis showed a brass dot as logo. In 2006 he introduced a grading displayed by three dots of copper, brass and silver in ascending order. His best pieces - very few so far - show five silver dots forming a "W".
 Hans Wormit
 Alter Schulweg 5a
 32791 Lage/W.
 Germany
 							
 snahti pipes on eBay
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Germany
Snook

Snook was an amateur pipe maker living in the Eastern part of Washington State. These pipes were circa 1950s or 1960s, and were gifted to a friend of Snook's living in Murray, KY. They have been enjoyed on and off ever since. 
The pipes are interesting in that Snook apparently had good woodworking and machining skills, and had the idea to make Calabash style pipes all in wood. These appear to be Walnut and Cherry, with Ebony and brass accents. The bowl insert of the bent poker may be briar, but it's difficult to tell. Both sitters appear to have modified molded vulcanite stems. The Rhodesian stem appears to be made out of Ebony and has two ring gaskets on the tenon. The Rhodesian also has a rolled up pipe cleaner in the shank chamber, which appears to serve as a filter. All of them have very nicely fitted cork gaskets for the inset bowl.
These pipes could be considered an early version of the current trend of "reverse calabash" pipes.
The pipes are without nomenclature.
Snook-Trio.jpg|A trio of Snook pipes
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Category:Pipe makers by nationality
Category:United States
Soborg

It was speculated Soborg pipes were made by Søren Refbjerg Rasmussen. Now it seems to be certain that these have at least been produced in his wokshop in Søborg, Denmark, although not necessarily by Rasmussen himself but probably by his employees.
Bob Taylor reported a brief correspondence with Rasmussen regarding a Soborg pipe Taylor purchased in April of 2007. Rasmussen indicated Soborg pipes were made about 30 years ago, and were not made by him personally but presumably by others working for him. It's a bit hard to decipher, but it appears pipes with a short shank were saved, and then finished up every 6 months and sold as Soborgs. They were mostly sold to England, and the U.S. markets. Most of them had a rough (Plateaux) top. The example Taylor purchased has the short shank, but with a smooth top.
After Rasmussen's retirement the content of his workshop was purchased by Poul Rasmussen (another one) including equipment, pipes and paperwork. These files revealed again that the Soborg pipes did come from Søren Rasmussen.According to ‎User:DavidChristopher this information was obtained from Poul Rasmussen.‎User:DavidChristopher states: As far as did someone else in the shop make them, that I'm not sure of.
== Gallery ==
Soborg01.jpg|Example and details, courtesy Doug Valitchka
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Soborg-short-shank-smooth-top.jpg|Soborg pipe, courtesy Bob Taylor
== References ==
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Denmark
Sociedade Rovera

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes
Sociedade Rovera is a brand created in 1911 by the brothers, Federico, Carlo, Cornelio, and Francesco Rovera. They were followed by Angelo Rovera, Francesco's son, who along with his son, Dorelio (Francesco's grandson), are the makers or Ardor pipes. 
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Italy
Some 1979 Dunhill

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Written by John C. Loring
Contributed by Jean-Christophe Bienfait
I have written elsewhere how Dunhill obviously made a concerted decade effort beginning in the mid 1970s to finish up what must have been an awesome inventory of rough cut but unfinished bowls and how this led to the unfortunate episode of the 1979 “Sale” pipes. These ‘sale’ pipes consisted for the most part of awkwardly shaped Group 6 bowls and shanks finished as Bruyereswith atrocious bit work. They were stamped simply “DUNHILL / LONDON” “(6)” (and sometimes an “X”) and sold off for $50 per. But as a perusal of pipes offered over several months on eBay indicates, there was a selection process and not all of that 1979 inventory box of unfinished bowls resulted in “Sale” pipes. 
Indeed the bottommost pipe with modest changes, principally a quarter bend and a change of finish, became the Xmas pipe of a few years hence. 
 
No doubt there’s an interesting tale and reasoned explanation about how and why these bowls came to be separated into $50 ‘dogs’ and hundreds of dollars ‘firsts’.
Back to Loring's articles here
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Category:Dunhill
Some 1979 Dunhill/en

Written by John C. Loring
Contributed by Jean-Christophe Bienfait
I have written elsewhere how Dunhill obviously made a concerted decade effort beginning in the mid 1970s to finish up what must have been an awesome inventory of rough cut but unfinished bowls and how this led to the unfortunate episode of the 1979 “Sale” pipes. These ‘sale’ pipes consisted for the most part of awkwardly shaped Group 6 bowls and shanks finished as Bruyereswith atrocious bit work. They were stamped simply “DUNHILL / LONDON” “(6)” (and sometimes an “X”) and sold off for $50 per. But as a perusal of pipes offered over several months on eBay indicates, there was a selection process and not all of that 1979 inventory box of unfinished bowls resulted in “Sale” pipes. 
Indeed the bottommost pipe with modest changes, principally a quarter bend and a change of finish, became the Xmas pipe of a few years hence. 
 
No doubt there’s an interesting tale and reasoned explanation about how and why these bowls came to be separated into $50 ‘dogs’ and hundreds of dollars ‘firsts’.
Back to Loring's articles here
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Category:Dunhill
Some 1979 Dunhill/fr

Ecrit par John C. Loring avec l'autorisation de l'auteur 
Mis à disposition et traduit par Jean-Christophe Bienfait
J'ai écrit ailleurs comment Dunhill a manifestement fait un effort concerté d'une décennie à partir du milieu des années 70 pour terminer ce qui devait être un impressionnant stock de têtes brutes mais non finies et comment ceci conduisit au malheureux épisode de la "vente en soldes " de pipes de 1979.Ces pipes "soldées" consistaient pour la plus grande part de Groupes 6 en finition Bruyere aux bols et tiges taillées de façon malhabiles et avec un travail atroce sur les tuyaux. Elles étaient simplement estampillées “DUNHILL / LONDON” “(6)” (et parfois un "X") et vendues 50$ pièce. Mais comme le montre un examen attentif des pipes proposées durant plusieurs mois sur Ebay, il y a eu une sélection et toutes les pipes de ce stock de têtes non finies de 1979 n'ont pas fini en pipes soldées. 
Ainsi la pipe du bas, avec quelques petits changements, pour l'essentiel une légère courbure et un changement de finition, est devenue Pipe de Noël quelques années après. (Dunhill Xmas Pipe 1984 Ndt).
Nul doute qu'il existe une histoire intéressante et une explication réfléchie sur le pourquoi et le comment dont ces têtes ont été réparties en "cochonneries" à 50 $ et "pipes de première" à plusieurs centaines de dollars.
Retour aux articles de Loring ici
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Sommer

The brand was created by Jean Sommer in 1855 and produced in Paris, France. His sons continued the business producing meerschaum as well as briar pipes. The production stopped in 1935 but the brand's shop named "Aux carrieres d'ecume" (13 et 15 passage des princes, Paris) kept on with commercial activity until 1988. The logo on some is a gold sun with a white horizontal bar, or just a white bar alone on the side of the stem.
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Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: France
Souers

Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: United States
Denny Souers Pipes 
Mainly Danish style freehand pipes. You can find some on eBay for several hundred dollars.
From his eBay page: Welcome to Denny Souers Pipes. I have been creating hand-carved Grecian briar pipes for 35 years. I hand-carve unique pipes that impress the eye, please the touch and satisfy the pipe smoker’s need for a one-of-a-kind experience.