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Rodriguez

Tony Rodriguez is a Los Angeles, CA based carver, who was known for very high end pipes and master craftsmanship.The prominent pipe collector and the Author of In Search of Pipe Dreams book Rick Newcombe refers to Tony Rodriguez as one of his all time favorite carvers. According to Newcombe, Tony Rodriguez studied under Lars Ivarsson and Jess Chonowitsch. He bought his briar from Chonowitsch and the legendary late Bo Nordh. After producing highly desired and collectible pipes for over a decade, Tony Rodriguez disappeared from the pipe scenes in the mid 2000s and was never heard from since then, making his name one of the most mystical pipe carvers and brands in the pipe collecting world. His pipes remain highly collectible and are extremely rare to be found in the estate market, commanding high prices.
Category: Pipe makers by nationalityCategory: United States
Rogrus

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes
Rogrus is a Polish brand by the artisan Robert Gruszcynski, a fine arts graduate, as well as a sculptor, painter, and furniture restorer. He produces sculpted and free forms in briar, as well as in stone and clay. Symbol: stylised rg in a circle.
From SmokingPipes.com: Robert Gruszczynski is a Polish pipe maker from Warsaw who specializes in particularly ornate, formal compositions. He has a background as a classical artist, having worked, at various times, as a sculptor, painter and as a restorer of antique sculpture and furniture. Though it's clear that much of his aesthetic inspiration lies outside of pipes, he also seems to draw on the work of Kent Rasmussen and Hiroyuki Tokutomi for stylistic inspiration.
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Poland
Roland

Roland has been used by several different firms. The following Roland example was likely made by Fukashiro Tsutomu, who reportedly made some of his less expensive pipes under this brand. It is also marked KIKUSUI, GINZA TOKYO. Smokingpipes.com indicates that Kikusui is, evidently, one of the older, and better-known tobacconists in Tokyo, and like many of their Western counterparts they have pipes made for them as a "store brand." 
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Category:Pipe makers by nationality
Category:Japan
Romagnolo

Ivan Romagnolo was born in 1969. He has a great passion for Pipes. He lives in Italy in Mongrando, Piedmont, which is in the Province of Biella He made his first pipe only a few years ago, but Romagnolo Pipe was conceived in 1982 when, at the age of 13 he went for the first time to the newsstand in Bianze where he lived at the time in the Province of Vercelli. The newsagent was a Pipe Smoker, and it happened that he was smoking his pipe when Ivan first entered his shop. Perhaps because he was very young, perhaps it was destiny, but he was kidnapped by the ritual and the aromas. That is when he fell in love with the pipe. He did not immediately begin to smoke pipes, or to build them, but the seed was planted. 
The desire to build pipes came to Romagnolo after twenty-five years of experience as a cabinetmaker, an experience that allowed him to acquire the manual skill and knowledge of woods and to create what he considers small works of art. He learned pipe making from an elderly (and very experienced) pipemaker in his area who shared his vast experience. 
In 2015, after almost 25 years as a furniture restorer and cabinetmaker he decided to make pipes. He has dedicated himself to bringing his pipes to the market, which allows him to share the unique feelings that a pipe can give.
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Contact Information:
 Website: https://www.romagnolopipe.it/
 Romagnolo Ivan C.F. RMGVNI69H12L750J
 Via. Provinciale, 15 - 13888
 Mongrando (BI) - Italia
 Tel: +39 3888996327
Category:Pipe makers by nationalityCategory:Italy
Romain

Claude Romain is a second brand from Butz-Choquin.
To elaborate...
From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by Jose Manuel Lopés'
Claude Romain is a French brand created in 1979 by the Berrod-Regad group for the German market. The name was fromed from Romain (founder of the Condat region in the 5th century, which corresponds to Saint-Claude today) and Claude (a 7th century bishop who gave his name to the town Jura). Stamp Claude Romain, and Made in France. Symbol: CR
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Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: France
Roman Kovalev

Born in what is now Ukraine (formerly The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic) in 1971, Roman Kovalev's Russian father soon moved his family north... way north to Nizhnevartovsk city in Siberia, where Roman remained until his most recent move to St. Petersburg in 2010. "Doctor's Pipes", at first blush, might seem an unusual choice for a pipe brand, until one finds out that Dr. Roman Kovalev was a pediatric neurologist for 16 years (smoking 5-8 bowls a day). Polyglot, neurologist, racecar builder and main team driver, owner of two distilleries, and the man who founded the popular "COFFEEJAZZ" Espresso supply and barista training, just because he wasn't happy with the local coffee... "Renaissance Man" doesn't cover it.
An aficionado of high grade briars for decades (his first Tokutomi was purchased in 1998), Kovalev's obsession with the pipes themselves was often secondary to understanding the man/woman who made it; their personality, their creative processes. Untold hundreds of pipes were smoked and countless hours of research/correspondence took place. In Roman's own words, "This process was my 'pipe school'" While Dr. Kovalev's greatest admiration tends to lie with the Japanese masters, his pipes show a staggering breadth of aesthetic. Roman's desired results from sandblasting couldn't be achieved from normal blasters, so he made a unique device/system, 100% of his own design ("Aeroblast"). In search of interesting accessory material, he purchased powerful equipment and started experimenting with dozens of polymers, eventually settling on one which uses grass, moss, nuts, and various seeds as the media for polymerization. Whether your new Doctor's Pipe is briar or strawberry wood, you are investing in something both beautiful and revolutionary. Courtesy, R. Bear Graves for Smokingpipes.com
Also read this excellent interview with R. Bear Graves: Interview: Meet Roman Kovalev of Doctor's Pipes 
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Contact Information:
 Website
 E-mail: docpipes@gmail.com
 Skype name: coffeejazznv
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Russia
Romeo Pipe

Domenico Romeo "MIMMO" Courtesy of italianpipemakers.com
Son of Filippo Romeo, well known briar cutter, I grew up spending my free time in the sawmill or with my father who, since I was a child, has taken me to inspect stocks of burls of briar in France, Italy, etc.
When I was 18, after college, I decided to begin the profession of my father. After about four years I was an experienced briar cutter, although I felt within me the wish to produce something more than a semi-finished block of briar, although a complicated and hard profession. So, in a corner of the sawmill, I tried to drill and shape some pieces of briar into pipes, and I tried to join mouthpieces. The result was absolutely awful, but the desire continued to stay in me.
I've always visited pipe factories, thanks to my profession as a briar cutter; only 10 years ago I found the direction to follow to produce my pipes, thanks to a meeting with Teddy Knudsen who used to visit me to buy briar for his pipes.
A strong friendship was born with him and I showed him my desire to learn how to make my own pipes. He told me: "You know the briar better than anyone; you must learn how to drill with skill and then you'll be free to read the "patter" of the briar as you like". So, after ten days in Denmark, I equipped a real workshop in a corner of my sawmill and I started to create and produce pipes.
Each piece is unique; I use only briar that has seasoned for three years. Mouthpieces are completely handmade, with rods of German ebonite or cumberland, considered the best material on the market. I take a lot of care to ensure harmony between the bowl of the pipe and the mouthpiece, to create a unique object, both elegant and functional at the same time.
== Gallery ==
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== Contact Information ==
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 Domenico Romeo
 Via Del Piano 151 
 18018 Taggia (IM) Italy
 
 Website: http://www.romeo-pipe.com/
 Email: mailto:romeobriar@libero.it
 Phone: +39.0184.47.63.85
 Fax: +39.0184.47.63.85
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Italy
Ron Powell

Ron Powell is the maker of RDPipes.
Hello, my names Ron D. Powell, hence RDPipes the “P” in pipes serves a double purpose but, most just say it as RD pipes which is fine with me, as long as they don’t use expletives in between, before or after. I’ll be 64 this year and I’ve been on a very long journey to get here. As long as I can remember I’ve loved art and working with my hands and, used my skills early on creating, restoring, collecting and repairing everything imaginable. A lot of these items are much too heavy for me to handle like I did because of chronic back troubles that has left me disabled after 20+ years of local and OTR truck driving. But, the pipe that I took up collecting about 22 years ago and restoring about 7 years ago was light enough for anyone and being I’d been restoring pipes the only next step would be to make them I thought, so off I went to research how this could be accomplished. Well, in 2013 I found a forum just for pipe makers and gleaned as much information as I could and they were very helpful, so started my first pipe. Not the best pipe you’ve ever seen but, a little above average, and then I found what I wanted to go back to creating an art form.Well, trying to create art, as not all of my pipes is what I consider beauties but, I do make sure they're engineered to perform flawlessly so one can have a pleasurable, hassle free smoke. All my draft holes are drilled at 9/64" in the shank and taper through the stem. I also try and get the best Mediterranean briar and highest quality rod stock for making my stems, all stems are hand cut with a 3/32" bit zone for ease of clenching and comfort. Also all stem airways are polished for ease of cleaning and airflow.Thank you for your interest in my pipes and if you don’t find what you’re looking for this time I hope you return to see what else I have done in the near future. 
Sincerely R.D. Powellhttp://rdpipes.briar.club/about
Ron Powell made his last pipe on March 15th 2022.
Returned to pipe making in July of 2024
You may also enjoy listening to Brian Levine's interview with Ron Powell on the Pipes Magazine Radio Show
== Gallery ==
File:RDPipes-PartialBlastRhodesian.jpg|Rdpipes 71 - Partially Blasted Bent Bulldog, made from Strawberry Briar with hand cut Cumberland stemhttp://rdpipes.briar.club/pipe-71
File:RDPipes-BlastedMortaRhodesian.jpg|Rdpipes 73 - Blasted Morta Bent Rhodesian, made from 5500 year old Ukrainian Bog Oak (Morta)http://rdpipes.briar.club/pipe-73
== Contact Information ==
 Website: https://www.instagram.com/1rdpipes/
 E-mail: 1rdpipes@gmail.com
 Phone: 903-385-5073
== References ==
Category:Pipe makers by nationality
Category:United States
Ropp

Eugène-Léon Ropp (1830 - 1907) had acquired a patent for a cherrywood pipe (wild cherry, lat.: Prunus avium) in 1869. In 1870 he established a workshop to manufacture such pipes in Büssingen (Bussang, Vosges mountains). Around 1893 the business moved into the former mill of Sicard (part of the community of Baume-les-Dames - Département Doubs, Upper Burgundy - from 1895 on).
The pipes were a big success in the export as well. Shortly before 1914 Ropp designated A. Frankau & Co. (BBB) in to be the exclusive distributor in the UK and it's colonies.
Probably in 1917 a workshop in Saint-Claude in the Rue du Plan du Moulin 8 was acquired to start the fabrication of briar pipes. In 1923 a small building in the environment of Saint-Claude, serving as a workshop for polishing, was added.
*Circa 1920's 1930's catalog in PDF, courtesy, Joseph Morris: Early Ropp Catalog
Even though cherrywood pipes were the mainstay of Ropp until the company finally closed down in September 1991. The company was taken over by Cuty-Fort Entreprises (Chacom, Jeantet, Vuillard, Jean Lacroix...) in 1994.
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Examples, Courtesy, Radzievsky Vladimir Zeev
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== Ropp seconds == 
*Golden Burl
*Grande Morez
*Nantua
*Versailles.
Various Ropp Ads and flyers
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Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: France
Rosengren

Jonas Rosengren was born in 1972 and lives with his wife, Kicki and two sons in the city of Halmstad, situated on the west coast of Sweden. Since childhood he has had a great interest in woodwork, and perhaps it is in his blood as many of his ancestors have been cabinetmakers. He tried a variety of professions until 2004, when he decided to become a teacher of woodworking.
He originally took a great interest in making knives and it was a knife maker, Börje Thelberg, who got him interested in pipe-making, as he himself had a desire to make pipes. But he had not even smoked a pipe since his youth, and back then it was mainly corncobs. So at a visit to Gothenburg he bought a pipe (it was a Chacom) and a tin of tobacco, and in the beautiful surroundings of the local botanical gardens he smoked his first pipe in many years. And it was great!
He searched the web and discovered there were a lot of pipemakers in Sweden. He was especially happy to find that one of them, Gurra Markunger, lived in the same town. He paid Gurra a visit, which started the ball rolling quickly. He also visited Ronny Thunér, Bengt Carlson, Anders Nilsson and Martin Vollmer (Vollmer & Nilsson), and Love & Sara Geiger (Geiger Pipes). Like others, he astonished by the openness and helpfulness of these pipe makers, who willingly shared knowledge, gave advice, and helped him find the necessary tools and material to start building a workshop, which was ready in 2010.
Jonas visited the Chicago Pipe in May 2012 and was really happy with the great interest in his pipes.
His pipes are made from Mediterranean briar and the stems are handcut from ebonite. The pipes are available in a smooth or sandblasted finish, sometimes a combination of both, and they are stamped with his initials and the country of origin. Adornments from different kinds of wood, horn, bamboo and other materials may sometimes be used.
Jonas also makes ashtrays, pipe-stands, tampers and other things connected to pipe-smoking in various local and domestic kinds of wood. 
Contact Information:
 Website: http://www.jrsweden.se/
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Denmark
Rovera

Sociedade Rovera was created in 1911 in Varese, Italy by Federico, Carlo, Cornelio and Francesco Rovera. The company was in turn taken over by Angelo Rovera, Francesco's son, who in turn with his own son Dorelio created the brand Ardor. They also produce Angelo pipes, which are a less expensive brand.
The brand is now carried on by Damiano Rovera, son to Dorelio. The Rovera family is truly the first family of Italian pipe making. Aside from the Ardor pipes now produced and the Roverart pipes made by the same company, the Rovera family has produced Fe.Ro pipes, beginning in 1949, Massimilliano Rovera & C. SNC., which produced the Mario Rovera pipes, Linea Erre S.N.C. di Rovera G, created in 1936 and now producing only face and body products, Gardesana Pipe Di Fiorenzo Rovera E.C. S.N.C., started by Fiorenzo Rovera and which has also made the Carey Magic Inch pipes for years, as well as the Hugo International Series, or H.I.S. pipes, at one point sold in Dr. Grabow catalogs, and many others. The Dr. Grabow Omega line of pipes grew out of a copy of a Rovera pipe. In 1934 Giorgio Rovera, along with Angelo and Adele Bianchi, founded Gigi, still in business today. It would be impossible to understate this family's importance in the world of pipe making and pipe smoking.
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Italy
Roverart

RoverArt pipes are made by Dorelio and Damiano Rovera, makers of the Ardor line, at a rate of approximately 500-800 pipes a year. They are available in seven different styles, including the Armony, finished with a light walnut stain, the Sinfony, finished in dark mahogany, the Ricciolo, with carved curls, the Ritmica, a rusticated pipe with red accents, the Tuba, a carved pipe with a bamboo shank, the Sax, a rusticated black pipe with a screw in bowl, and the Cornetta, a large horn with a briar shank. The Roverart line contains some of the less conventional pipes made by the Roveras. For more information see Ardor.
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Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Italy
Royal Ascot

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According to PipePhil pipes with this brand were manufactured in France for Duncan (according to J.M. Lopes, op. cit. and Wilczak & Colwell, op. cit.). They were destined to US market and sold by Mastercraft. They are made in France and many are marked Algerian Briar. The logo is a crown on the stem. Some pipes of the same name with a horseshoe logo also exist that were made in England, but may not be the same company.
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Category: Pipe makers by nationalityCategory: Great Britain
Royal Copenhagen

Royal Copenhagen, officially known as the Royal Porcelain Factory or Den Kongelige Porcelænsfabrik, has been making porcelain products in Copenhagen since May 1, 1775. In addition, for a fifteen year period beginning in approximately 1970, Royal Copenhagen also made pipes. 
In honor of the 70th anniversary of King Frederik IX, himself an enthusiastic pipe smoker, the Royal Porcelain Factory produced a pair of porcelain pipes and a tobacco jar for the King. The pipes made for the King turned out so well that the factory decided to start mass production of porcelain pipes. 
In 1970 the factory introduced a series of 8 porcelain pipes in classic shapes including a billiard, zulu, bent billiard and the like, as well as the very popular Golf Ball. Initial production resulted in complaints from customers regarding stem fit, as the initial traditional stem tenon loosened during smoking, allowing the bowl to fall off. After switching circa 1972 to a reverse tenon this problem was solved.
In fall of 1971, Royal Copenhagen decided to expand their line of shapes, and held a design contest, to which were invited Anne Julie, Emil Chonowitsch, Jess Chonowitsch, Poul Hansen, Gert Holbek, Lars Ivarsson, Sixten Ivarsson, Svend Knudsen, Ib Loran, Jørn Micke and Karl Erik Ottendahl. This preeminent lineup produced a total of 49 shapes which were judged anonymously. Micke's pipes took first and third and Ib Loran took second. With these three pipes, one from Lars Ivarsson, and four more purchased from Micke, the line was expanded.
Production of these pipes ceased in the mid-1980s after only approximately 15 years in production.
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Denmark
Royal Danish

Royal Danish is a Stanwell sub-brand.
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Category:Pipe makers by nationality
Category:Denmark
Category:Stanwell
Royal Dutch

The Royal Dutch line of pipes was first introduced in 1972 after Queen Juliana awarded a royal warrant to the Gubbels factory, and are being sold again today. The current production line advertises the use of 40 year old briar, and the pipes sport vulcanite stems and a light walnut stain. For more information see Gubbels.
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Category: Pipe makers by nationalityCategory: Netherlands
Royal Meerschaum Pipe Co.

From the Royal Meerschaum web site:
Royal Meerschaum is owned and operated by the Korn family, who has been importing Hand Carved and Hand Crafted Meerschaum Pipes directly from Turkey for over forty years. Members of the Korn family are considered the pioneers of importing Meerschaum Pipes into the United States and they are regarded by many to be among the foremost experts on Meerschaum Tobacco Pipes. 
Throughout the years frequent travels to Turkey have enabled the Korn family to establish unique, personal relationships with many expert carvers and artisans. Their actual 'feet on the ground' approach to buying allows them to offer the absolute best quality of hand crafted Meerschaum Pipes. Be sure to check out our full line of Mini Meerschaum Pipes, Medium sized Meerschaum Pipes, Regular Meerschaum Pipes, Churchwarden Meerschaum Pipes, Pipe Tobacco Blends, and more.
Contact Information:
 Website: 
 E-mail: sales@royalmeerschaumpipes.com
 Toll Free: 1-800-567-6922
 Local: 1-760-744-7473
 Fax: 1-866-863-5867
 
 Mailing Address:
 P.O. BOX 9
 San Marcos, CA 92079
Royal Triumph

Royal Triumph is an Orlik sub-brand. This example has a crown stamped into the stem. Orlik also made Royal Sovereign. If you have additional information about this brand, please add it here, or send it to sethile.pipes@gmail.com and we can add it for you.
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Category:Pipe makers by nationality
Category:Great Britain