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Marxman

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes
Marxman (Marxman Pipe Company) was created by Robert (Bob) L. Marx in 1934, when he was 29, and after he had worked for the William Demuth Company. His pipes were not outstanding because of the quality of their wood (probably Algerian), but Bob started making unique sculpted pieces, which brought the brand fame in the World of Hollywood cinema. Actors like Zachery Scott, Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Alan Hale, Joel McRae, and Ronald Reagan were some of the faces that appeared on the bowls.
Bob new how to innovate and took full advantage of marketing and press advertising in order to sell the brand--one of his slogans being "Relax with a Marxman".
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The Four Hundred was Marxman's best series, characterized by very large pipes. Similarly famous was the Marxman Heirloom Pipes series, with around 80 pieces produced by well-known North American sculptors, such as Jo Davidson, Cecil Howard, Charles Kopp, and RD Lewis, contracted by Bob in 1947. Today these pipes are genuine collector's items. The series included animal and human figures, selling at extremely high prices for the time.
 
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Image:MarxmanFigures.jpg|Some wonderful hand carved Marxman Sculpture pipes - Courtesy of Mike Ahmadi
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Bob also produced other brands, such as the "Bench Made".
The company lasted until 1953, the year in which it merged with Mastercraft, then the USA's biggest pipe importer.
Marxman Pipes Inc., was located at 27 West 24th St. New York 10, NY. 
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*Chris's Pipe Pages also has a complete circa 1945 catalog
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: United States
Massis Pipes

From the Massis Pipes Website Nick Ramaekers is a Belgian pipemaker living in the province of Limburg, who has been making pipes since 2011.
In his own words: "My experience in woodworking began at age 22 when I decided that rather than buy, I'd make my own terrarium for our new pet, a bearded dragon.
Being an IT-graduate ment I had no prior experience in woodworking, but I used my degree to good results with the wonders of the internet. 
A cordless drill was bought and 6 years later our beardy still happily lives in his terrarium.
After I took up pipesmoking, I quickly realised the value of beautiful, handmade pipes. 
Like many starting carvers I decided I would be able to make myself a good looking pipe at a much better price than those available.
With my first pipe kit, I quickly discovered this was about as far from the truth as could be, but I had found myself a new passion: pipemaking.
Over the last years I've invested more time and money into this hobby and my workshop, and have been steadily increasing my skill as a carver of handmade pipes.
As a husband and father of 2, my free time is limited and has to be split between pipemaking and my other passion: underwater hockey. This means I only produce a handful of pipes every year, looking for quality instead of quantity."
Contact Information:
 Carver: Nick Ramaekers
 Location: Limburg, Belgium 
 website: http://www.massispipes.com 
 E-mail: info@massispipes.com
 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MassisPipes
 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/massispipes
 Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/massispipes
Category:Pipe makers by nationalityCategory:Belgium
Masta

Masta was a brand founded around 1900. When Parker Hardcastle Limited was formed in 1967, they also incorporated the Masta Patent Pipe Company. From this point this was a Dunhill / Parker / Hardcastle offshoot, primarily for the scandinavian market. The brand no longer appears to exist. Masta was at the end rarely the equal of a Parker.
Masta Patent Pipes Company was founded around 1900 to London. The firm suffered numerous adversities (the factory was destroyed by a bombardment in 1941, during the second world war). the mark Masta was acquired in 1946 by Parker Pipes Co. (Dunhill) and the production continued in the establishment Parker-Hardcastle, next to St. Andrews Road. What the pipes Masta (how Hardcastle and Parker ) can be considered "second lines" of Dunhill (or exemplary not perfect, with defects that cannot be signed from the mother house) is common and very diffused opinion. To this opinion I habitually conform me. It is necessary to specify however that this hypothesis is controversial and it has never been confirmed. The only certainty seems to be that Parker , Hardcastle and Masta belong to Dunhill and the pipes they are produced in the establishment Parker-Hardcastle . Parker and Masta have in common usually forms and numbers of shape.https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/masta-dunhill-patent-standard-english-292597597
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Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Great Britain
Mastro Beraldi

Aldo Pierluigi emerged as a pipemaker around 1976/77. He stamped his earlier freehand pipes "Per mei amici" (For my friends). As it seems, Pierluigi chose a more commercialised way of pipemaking by creating the Mastro Beraldi line, which is mainly offered in the United States. This is not to say that these pipes are of inferior quality!
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Citation from the homepage:
"Mastro Beraldi pipes are completely hand crafted by Aldo Pierluigi and his family who has been making pipes in Rome since the ‘70s using artisan’s techniques and tools.
The experience acquired in the last 30 years led to the realization of this line of hand made pipes, different one from the others, with the aim of offering to the smokers a high quality product at an excellent price.
The briar wood is Italian and is carefully selected and aged.
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The mouthpiece, also by Italian factories, is made of ebonite of the best quality internally strengthened with a special pin to protect against breakage. The finishing touches are obtained with new water colours and varnish.
The rings, trimmings, accessories and packages are individually designed to complement each unique pattern. For the typical manifacture and the selected and used materials we guarantee that this pipe is a totally hand made, made in Italy and ecological product."
Last year the Pierluigis started a new line of pipes called Mario Grandi. Since December 2006 these pipes are offered exclusively on internet auctions, starting at very low prices. Strange enough, they declare "Mario Grandi" to be a real and living pipemaker...
Considering the prices, these pipes are a good buy, especially if one applies some care to choose the better pieces.
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Italy
Mastro Grandolfo

Mastro Grandolfo is an Italian Pipemaker from Puglia.
Online gallery: www.mastrograndolfo.com
I learned to build smoking pipes from my maternal grandfather. 
After the Second World War, during the great reconstruction of Italy, my grandfather started a tobacco shop. 
He also built pipes and lighters with the shells of bullets. 
Before I was born, he sold the tobacco shop, but has continued to build smoking pipes. 
When I was 6 age old, I went for the first time in his laboratory. 
I remember the light that came in through the high window and cut the darkness, I remember the wood dust in the air. 
There was a scent of olivewood and humidity. 
I was fascinated, I was a child in the laboratory of Merlin. 
As you can imagine, spending time with my grandfather, I learned to build smoking pipes as a game. 
My annual production ranges from 250 to 350 pipes.
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Italy
Mattner

My name is Robert Mattner, and Willi Mattner was my father.
He was born on the Polish/Russian border in 1914. The family endured very hard times in those days thanks to WW1 and later the Great Depression. As a result, my father left home at the age of fourteen to join the German Merchant Navy.
When WW11 broke out, his ship, The Hagen, on which he was first ship's engineer, was in Durban harbor undergoing engine repairs. The ship was impounded because it had been registered in Hamburg, Germany. All the crew went to internment camps around Pretoria, mainly Baviaanspoort and Leeuwkop, where they remained for the entire war.
After the war, Germany had nothing to offer, and my father found work with the ship builders James Brown and Hammer in Durban. It was at a local wedding that he met my mother. After they married, my father moved to Johannesburg and joined my grandfather in the pipe-making industry. The company was called Samek's Pipe Hospital at that stage.
My grandfather was a very talented artist who had learnt his pipe-making skills and carving working for Andreas Bauer Meerschaum Pipes in Austria, his country of birth. Over the years and until his passing, he taught his skills to my father. Later, the name of the company changed to Mattner's Pipe Hospital.
Being of Eastern Prussian extraction, my father would accept only the best Corsican briar for his pipes. The briar was obtained from France. He would make regular visits to the suppliers and spend a great deal of time choosing his materials. The grain of the briar as well as minimal wood cavities were of utmost importance.
As a child, I had to help in the factory finely tweaking the finished products. My father would only accept the best quality workmanship. His favourite saying (admonished in German) was "If you are going to do a job, do it properly or do not do it at all." Thus, all the products he turned out were only of the finest quality. Nothing else was acceptable, and therefore the name Willi Mattner is to this day associated with the finest quality pipes. To own one is a privilege.
Due to sanctions in South Africa, briar became harder to come by, and my father was forced to make a change in material for his pipes. In later years, he turned to using calabash, which he obtained from a supplier in Ladismith in the Great Karoo. All those pipes were in Sherlock Holmes style. Unfortunately the calabash powder ruined his eyesight, and he eventually could do pipe repairs only by working from home.
It was during this time that my father met Ebenhart and passed his skills on to him. Today, Ebenhart has progressed to be a fine pipe maker of exceptional skill.
Willi Mattner passed away peasefully in the Johannesburg German Old Age Home in 2005 at the age of ninety-two.
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: South Africa
McCranie's

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes
McCranie's Pipe and Tobacco shop in Charlotte, NC, was founded in 1979 by Tom McCanie and today is run by his sons, Todd and Trent McCranie.
They had pipes made for them by Bill Ashton marked MADE IN ENGLAND, and by Tonny Jacono with the sand-blasting done by Bill Ashton as well.
Contact Information:
 McCranie's Pipe & Tobacco Shop
 Website: http://www.mccranies.com/
 4143 Park Road
 Charlotte, North Carolina 28209
 USA
 Tel: 704-523-8554
 Toll Free: 888-523-8554
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: United States
McGahey

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes
McGahey is an English brand produced for the McGahey tobacco shop, The Tobacconist, which dates from 1880 and belongs to Martin McGahey, president of the Alliance of Pipe Clubs of Great Britain. Symbol M
From the McGahey website: Nothing, not even the savage blitz on Exeter in May 1942, has been able to stop our continuos service to the smoking public in the South West. Our family business was established in 1880 - since that date there have been three generations of McGaheys at the helm. Edgar McGahey saw the tobbaconist shop through the war years- relocation in a garden shed at the bottom of his garden in Barnfield Road. The business returned to High Street almost on the same site as the former shop in 1955, the year in which Edgar McGahey died. Michael, who had been in business since 1942, steered the business through the next period of it's history. Whilst 245 High Street remained true to it's policy of specialisation the company expanded into prominently placed kiosks in London Inn Square, Princesshay and Heavitree.
In 1973 Martin joined the firm and father and son continued the traditions. In Marchv1988 we carried out a complete refit of 245 High Street - striking a balance between a conventional image and modern shop fitting technique. In 1992 we were the only independent retailer in High Street. Michael retired in February 1992. 1996 was a year of great change due to our landlord's redevelopment plans. We had to leave the site for a few months and move to Princesshay. After completion of the work we moved back to the same site but on a corner location.
As specialists we stock a complete tobacconist in range of most of the well known names in pipes and carry the largest selection of lighters in the South West. Cigarettes, Tobaccos, Cigars and Snuff displayed in profusion with every makers name one can think of, and in the unlikely event of a customer requiring something not in stock - this can quickly be obtained. We have a complete repair service for lighters and pipes and will always be pleased to quote. We hope we can be of service.
Contact Information:
 Website: http://www.the-tobacconist.co.uk/
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: United States
McGimpsey Pipes

McGimpsey Pipes are made by Matt Brannon in Tulsa Oklahoma.
From the McGimpsey Pipes Website
I have always been interested in crafting things with my hands, some may even say obsessed. I began making my own toys as a child and progressed through model building, chip carving and even fly tying. In more recent years I became very interested in varous woodcrafts. Woodturning and carving became much loved hobbies none of those evoked the passion I have for pipe making. I began concentrating almost entirely on pipe making. Since then I have been actively working to refine my craftsmanship and artistic design skills in this medium.
 
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Every Mcgimpsey Pipe is handmade using only the finest materials available to me. I import materials from all over the world for my pipes. A single pipe can be comprised of materials from Italy, Germany, China and The United States.
 
The briar used for my pipes is of Italian origin. It is harvested, cut and cured before it arrives in Oklahoma where I submit it to further curing to ensure the best smoking properties possible. Each stem is hand cut from German ebonite or vintage Bakelite. Embellishment materials include pre-ban ivory, mammoth tusk, bamboo, various horns such as Alaskan musk ox, boxwood and various exotic burls.
 
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Each pipe is stamped with the McGimpsey Pipes logo and a year stamp.
Matt Brannon made one of the seven pipes selected to be included in the Greater Kansas City Pipe Club's 2013 contest set.
Contact Information:
 Matt Brannon
 8086 S. Yale Ave. Ste. 101
 Tulsa, OK 74136
 Email: matt@mcgimpseypipes.com﻿
 Website
Category: Pipe makers by nationalityCategory: United States
McGrath

John Hamilton McGrath (1949-2016) was a Canadian pipe maker (stamp: JHM), based out of Vancouver, BC, who previously studied Industrial Design at Carlton University, in Ottawa, ON, and worked professionally as a graphic designer and art director for several advertising agencies, throughout his career.
As a cyclist, John was seriously injured in a car accident in the mid-90s, which left him unable to work for some time. After a lengthy recovery, and instead of returning to a career in advertising, John decided to combine his artistic talents with his love of a good smoke from a briar pipe; and pursued a career as a self-taught artisan pipe maker. 
 
With his artistic eye, attention to detail, and a lot of time spent making connections through online discussion boards about pipes and tobacco (back in the days of dial-up), John very quickly picked up strong techniques drilling, carving, shaping, staining, and finishing briar pipes.
John’s career as a pipe maker was brief, only lasting from the late 90s to the early/mid 2000s. In this short period he made many gorgeously carved tobacco pipes, perfecting classic shapes, while also delivering original, one of a kind designs. John’s later work began to incorporate stems with decorative inlays, using materials such as contrasting stained briar and mammoth tusk. In addition to pipe making, John also produced and sold some originally designed tampers; and was a onetime contributing artist for an illustrated cover of Pipes and Tobaccos Magazine. 
As hard as John worked, on his pipe making and distribution, the incoming profits just could not keep up with his responsibilities, and the costs associated with being a single parent of twins. John packed up his drill and tools, and went back to working for the man. While John would have loved to return to the world of pipe making, his timing coincided with the economic recession; and as such, this was not in the cards for him. 
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Note: Apparently Mr. McGrath had some unfortunate dealings with at least one fellow pipeman. An account of that has been moved to the Discussion section, available by clicking the tab at the top. If you were the contributor, please contact me at sethile.pipes@gmail.com, and we can discuss how best to document it here. I was recently contacted by one of John's children who understandably found your account disturbing. Scott Thile: sethile, 
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Canada
McGuire

Mac McGuire had a relatively short pipe making "hobby" and an even shorter "professional" career, and as a result, his pipes are not well-known away from his local area. California Pipe smokers have a few "favorite sons" whose work is little-known east of the ROCKY MOUNTAINS. Along with Paul Perri, Syd Ram, Ken Erickson and George Krissor, "MAC" McGUIRE was one of the great WEST COAST Pipe makers. This Burlington reflects his ability and is EXCEPTIONAL - - - engineered to perfection!!!
Charles ("Charlie") Kornguth, owner of Beverly Hills Pipe and Tobacco, told me that his shop had the exclusive distribution of McGuire Pipes for about 10 years from the "early 1970's thru the early 1980's." During that time, McGuire made only " a few hundred pipes" which sold between $150 and $300. Because of McGuire's fondness for Charatan's, he favored large, straight grain shapes, and even his smaller creations emulated Charatan Shapes! But, for most of his life it was only his hobby, and Charlie could never get him to increase his production. Kornguth considered McGuire's limited production to be a loss for pipe collectors everywhere because McGuire was one of the most talented pipemakers Charlie has ever seen!
Eventually McGuire formed a partnership and briefly opened his own shop in Los Angeles where he continued making the pipes. Early McGuire Pipes had the name "McGuire" scratched into the shank (something like Tim West used to do). But after the shop created a more business-like setting, the stamping became more professional! His pipes were then stamped with the name of the shop - - - "GRAHAM & McGUIRE"!!! Unfortunately, the shop was not opened long and McGuire's occupation as a professional pipemaker was short-lived!
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Category: Pipe makers by nationalityCategory: United States
McLary

Dave McLary started making hand made pipes in the mid 60's. He writes, "I learned the basics of pipe making from Bill Mincer (Tracy Mincer's son). I frequented the Custombilt factory in Indianapolis where Claude Stewart was the foreman and Bill Mincer worked there. At first I would buy a couple blocks of biair and bill would drill the tobacco chamber for me and fit the stem."
Eventually I set up a shop where I did the entire operation and sold pipes to friends. I worked at the Indiana State Museum as Curator of Exhibits and chief Taxidermist. A gentleman also worked there who smoked a pipe and he purchased several pipes from me. He was from St. Louis and was familiar with the John Dingler pipe shop there. He showed Dingler some of my pipes and Dingler was interested. I made a trip to St. Louis and sold pipes to him for awhile. I also had 2 other pipe shops selling my pipes in Indianapolis and Anderson, IN.
I got married, built a house myself and raised a family not making any more pipes for several years. After I retired from the Museum, after 20 years, I worked for the Indianapolis Zoo as Curator of Exhibits/Graphics for another 16 years. After retiring from the Zoo I started making pipes again selling to a couple of pipe shops and then listing them on eBay in 2001.
I made a trip to Italy 2 years ago and hand picked some beautiful briar from Mimmo the briar cutter in Taggia, Italy.
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Category:Pipe makers by nationalityCategory:United States
Mccoy pipes

Will McCoy Pipes: Will has sold hundreds of pipes over the years and you can get your needs met through dependable excellent techniques acquired from pipe makers such as Kendall, De Jarnett, Hildebrand, Rasmussen and Crawford. <nowiki>Insert Contact: WillMcCoypipes@gmail.com WillMcCoypipes.Blogspot.com Phone: 623-640-4022
Medaglia

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by Jose Manuel Lopés'
Enrico Medaglia is the brand and name of an Italian violin maker, who also makes pipes. Since graduating from the Scuola internazionale di liutera di Cremona (The International School of Lute makers, Cremona), in 1980, Enrico has lived in Padua and produces around 50 pipes a year. These are completely handmade and have metarilate stems.
And the following from the Pipe Tart Website:
My name is Enrico Marola. I was born and live in Vercelli, Italy. I live there with my wife, Donatella, son Matteao and Kim, the wonderdog. I am a watchmaker by profession and a long time pipe smoker. My favorite tobaccos are a Virginia flake, natural or aromatic.
I began making pipes in 1998 after meeting Bruto Sordini, mater carver of Don Carlos pipes. The work was hard and I had much to learn. I also received advice and training from Vilma Armellini and Luigi Crugnola among others.
I began my carving by making classic shapes to learn how a pipe is made. After I searched for my personal style that is a fusion of classic and freehand.
I smoke many of my own pipes and believe they are a satisfying smoke. They must allow multiple smokes a day and be infatigable.
The name of my pipe is Enricoro. This is a combination of my name, Enrico, and my profession orologaiio (watchmaker). Enrico + oro = Enricoro.
I am a pipe smoker and I want those who smoke my pipes to have great enjoyment and satisfaction. My pipes ask only that you fill a bowl, relax and enjoy.
* See also an article about Enrico Medaglia on MPC (in Italian)!
Contact Information:
 Enrico Medaglia
 Padova
 Italy
 
 Phone: +39 0498 808619
 Cell: +39 329 6916677
 E-mail: info@pipemedaglia.it
 Website: Enrico Medaglia
Category: Pipe makers by nationalityCategory: Italy