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Tanganyika Meerschaum Corporation

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes
Tanganyika Meerschaum Corporation is a company that formed in 1955 by Kenyan businessmen from Nairobi after the discovery of a meerschaum mine relatively close to the surface on Kilimanjaro. The meerschaum is tougher, less porous, and cheaper than the Turkish variety. Another mine was soon discovered in Sinya, in the famous Amboseli Game Park. 
The company, previously based in Arusha (Tanzania), became an associate of a Belgium firm, but closed some years after. It produced the Caveman, Countryman, Kiko, Killimanjaro, Sportsman, Townsman, and Wiga brands. It maintained a link with GBD for the making of the GBD Block Meerschaum series, and after its closure, the English firms, London Meerschaum and Manx Pipes (Manx Meerschaum) continued producing with African meerschaum.
* See Kiko for additional information
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Turkey
Tarp

The following information is from the excellent book, Scandanavian Pipemakers, by Jan Andersson
Karsten Tarp was born in 1953 in Kolding, Jutland, the town where Viggo Nielsen founded the Bari pipe factory in 1948. Bari was Karten's first work, and he stayed with Bari for 10 years. This is where he met his friend, Kai Nielsen, who he now shares shop space with in Faaborg. While the two share their work space, they are independent pipe makers. Each making their own pipes from start to finish.
Karsten's pipes run from classical shapes to more daring freehands. He uses ebonite, cumberland, and occasionally horn for his stem work. Horn is a difficult material for stems, and is only used on straight pipes. He may be the only pipemaker in Denmark using horn for stems. One of Karsten's more unusual shapes is called the Kronen or Crown, and it is cut mainly with a knife. He has made that shape for over 30 years, but perhaps fewer than 15 of them over those years.
Some exclusive pipes like the Crown are not included in Tarp's grading system. For the others, the grades are denoted by the names of ships from the Viking age: Draker, Skuder, Snigge, and Batr. With Draker being the highest. He makes about 200 pipes a year, some of them with adornments of silver, horn, and boxwood. He makes some with 9mm filters. He has taken part in pipes shows in China, which is a growing market for his pipes, as well as in Russia, and the U.S.
== Gallery ==
KarstanTarp Bulldog(Snigge).jpg|Snigge Grade Bulldog, courtesy Monjure International
KarstanTarp SmoothApple(Skuder).jpg|Skuder Grade Bent Apples, courtesy Monjure International
KarstanTarp Elephant.jpg|Elephant w/Ivory, courtesy Monjure International
Tarp01.jpg|Example and details, courtesy Doug Valitchka
Tarp02.jpg|Example and details, courtesy Doug Valitchka
== Links ==
* Very interesting article on Tarp in Pipes & Tobacco Magazine
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Denmark
Taylor & Breeden

=== History ===
Taylor & Breeden, Ltd. was a tobacconist and pipe dealer located in in Manchester, England. Although the company's origins can be traced back to 1851, it was started in 1900 or 1901 by Joseph Taylor and Henry Breeden. 
They were located at 39 Cross Street which is in the currently-named Northern Rock Building Society building (National Heritage List #1197939) on the corner of King and Cross streets. 
The company was liquidated in 1981. The site is now the location of a tobacconist/newspaper/stationery/book shop (currently Mirage News).
=== Pipes ===
Most of the early briar and meerschaum pipes sold were likely made on-site or locally. Later, many of their briar pipes were "own brands" supplied by well-known English pipemakers such as Barling, GBD, Comoy's, and others. "Breeden's" and "Breeden's Own" are also believed to be Taylor & Breeden brands.
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=== Tobaccos ===
*Carmona Mixture
*Salus Mixture
*Special Mixture Medium
*Special Mixture Mild
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=== External Links ===
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Manchester
*http://manchesterhistory.net/manchester/tours/tour5/area5page21.html
*https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1197939
Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Great Britain
Ted Bihlmaier

My interest in pipes really began in 2008 when my father sent me his pipe collection since he couldn't smoke them anymore. I attended the 2009 Chicago Pipe Show to try and find out information on a couple of his pipes. Just by chance I happened to meet a gentleman by the name of Maigurs Knets, and saw the incredible pipes he was creating. After a brief conversation I found out he only lived twenty minutes from my house just over the border in Wisconsin. With many visits to his workshop and his tutelage he showed me the fine craft of pipe making from start to finish. 
I began by making pipe tampers and worked my way up to making my own pipes. My first pipes I felt proud enough to sell began in 2010. Since I retired in 2020 of over thirty years in law enforcement, I've been able to spend more time in making pipes and focus on the fine art of pipe making. My pipes aren't necessarily the standard shapes. Although I can make them, I find the basic shapes boring. I seldom make two pipes exactly alike. I like to add something different to each pipe so each customer gets something slightly different and original.
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Contact Information:
 E-mail: tabihl15@gmail.com
 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100079205402192
Category:Pipe makers by nationality
Category:United States
Teipen Handmade Briar Pipes

Waybe Teipen-- The following information is from Wayne's website:
Each Teipen (pronounced typin) Handmade Briar Pipe is hand crafted by me, Wayne Teipen, in the small town of Cloverdale, Indiana. My work hours afford me a lot of free time for my hobbies and part time endeavors. I took up pipe smoking and collecting.
I decided to try to fashion my own pipe out of a predrilled block from PIMO mostly out of curiousity and the inner desire to create. The only tools I had at the time was a Dremel, a couple files and rasps, and some sandpaper. To my suprise and delight, my first pipe actually resembled something smokeable. Despite my limited knowledge and tooling at the time, I fell in love with the process and found an outlet for my creative side.
Like most things I commit myself to, I immersed myself in researching anything I could find related to pipemaking and absorbed it like a sponge. With the information gleened from the internet like Tyler Lane Beard’s website and pipemakersforum.com I began upgrading my tools and taught myself the skills necessary to make quality handmade pipes.
I currently make around 70 to 80 pipes per year, focusing on quality rather than quantity. 
*You may alo enjoy listening to Brian Levine interview Wayne on the Pipes Magazine Radio Show
Contact Information:
 Wayne Teipen
 Teipen Handmade Briar Pipes
 Website: http://www.teipenpipes.com
 3363 East CR 900 S.
 Cloverdale, IN 46120
 USA
 Phone: (765) 720-3859
 E-mail: wayne@teipenpipes.com
Category: Pipe makers by nationalityCategory: United States
Terminus

From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes
Terminus is a brand by EWA, called the "terminus system", to cool the smoke as it passes down the shank. Many of the brand's stems are in horn. The same brand name was produced by the Gradclémetn-Gauteron factory.
Here’s how it works: The shank is drilled wide and has an inner tube in the center of this chamber. On both sides of the inner tube are two draw holes into the bowl. The stem has a thinner inner tube that fits inside the larger tube that's in the shank. The smoke first goes through the two draw holes and into the chamber where the tar and impurities remain. Then the smoke it sucked through the thicker shank tube and up the stem's inner tube to end in the smoker's mouth.
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Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: France
Test Shapes

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File:Bent-apple-button.gif|Bent Apple
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File:Prince-button.gif|Prince
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File:Blowfish-button.gif|Blowfish
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Texaco

At least some Texaco pipes were made by LHS Sterncraft, presumably for Texaco, Inc. As evidenced by the following example:
 
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The Texaco pipe usually has nomenclature with the labels "Texaco", capitalized, and "Imported Briar" on it's side. Drinkless Mechanisms, or "stingers" were introduced around 1927 and have slowly stopped being produced since around 1964. That would date the following example somewhere in that era.
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Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: United States
Thayne

Thayne pipes are apparently made by the same maker as made Jarl pipes, who was reportedly Niels Mogens Jørgensen.
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Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: Denmark
The Doodler

After his loss of the Custom-Bilt name in 1953, Tracy Mincer's next production pipe was The Doodler. The pipe was turned for Mincer by the National Briar Pipe Co. beginning in the early 1950's, and that company eventually purchased the pipe design in approximately 1960. After that time Mincer's former partner Claude Stewart began making a line of pipes called the Holeysmoke which were largely identical to the Doodler pipes, and National Briar continued to produce the Doodler. The pipe's design centers around a series of vertically drilled holes in a ring around the combustion chamber, meant to provide airflow and a cooler smoke.
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Category: Pipe makers by nationality
Category: United States
The Exmoor Pipe

The Exmoor Pipe is a Comoy's sub-brand or second. If you have any additional information, 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
Category:Comoy's
The Legend of Dr. Grabow

Written October, 2005, by Paul W. Grabow
 
Dr. Grabow Pipes are named after Dr. Paul E. Grabow (my deceased Grandfather), a general-practitioner physician formerly with an office on the northeast corner of Fullerton and Halsted in Chicago. His youngest son was Mr. Milford P. Grabow (my Uncle) who passed away January, 2005 in Chicago. Dr. Grabow's other son (my Father, deceased in 1979) was Dr. William S. Grabow, a dentist who practiced in Chicago and Evanston, IL. 
 
Milford Grabow recently recounted details of the Dr. Grabow Pipe legend in a letter to me as follows:
 
"To start from the beginning, the old homestead was on 2348 Seminary Ave. (Chicago) before the De Paul University bought and tore down the whole area to expand the campus. Three doors north on 2400 Seminary Ave. (corner of Fullerton) was Brown's Drug Store, one of the old fashion community Drug stores that was popular of that area and was owned by Brown the Druggist. It had the usual ice cream counter and wire chairs and tables to serve sodas and sundaes. My Father became fast friends with his fishing buddy the Druggist. Most every weeknight after dinner while Mom did the dishes, Pop would visit Mr. Brown in the back room of the store and they would have weighty discussions about world events, fishing, politics, sports, etc. while smoking their pipes. One block west on Fullerton on the corner of Racine was the large pipe factory owned by Mr. Linkman. Mr. Linkman, when he wasn't too busy, would join the other two in their bull sessions and the three became fast friends.
 
It was during one of their nightly sessions that Mr. Linkman mentioned that he was coming out with a new pipe containing some innovated improvements and was looking for a name for it. He thought if it contained a Doctor's name it would probably sell well so he asked my Father if he would mind if he could use the Dr. Grabow name as he liked the sound of it. My Father liked the idea and was flattered to have a pipe named after him. So Mr. Linkman used the Dr. Grabow name without any formal agreement but just a "friendly understanding."
 
As a child in the 1940's and 1950's, I remember how Grandpa loved to smoke his Dr. Grabow pipes. The pipes were generously provided to him at no cost by Mr. Linkman, apparently part of the friendly understanding. Dr. Paul E. Grabow died of natural causes in 1965 at the ripe age of 97. He had a very rich and full life and I believe pipe smoking was good to him. Through the years I've enjoyed watching the growth of the Dr. Grabow Pipes and sharing Grandpa's legend with the curious. 
 
Anyone personally familiar with additional details of this legend is requested to forward input to the undersigned. 
 
 Paul W. Grabow
 137 Ball Road
 Mountain Lakes, NJ 07046
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The Lyon Pipe

General Charles G. Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American banker and politician, as well as the 30th Vice President of the United States. He was a co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925, and later in life the Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He also, of interest to pipe smokers, so incessantly smoked a Lyon pipe that his party used it as a campaign emblem and the pipe took on his name, now being referred to as the Dawes Pipe. In fact, this pipe was invented by Charles H. Lyon (February 17, 1861 - January 1, 1947). 
The Lyon pipe, now more commonly known as the Dawes pipe, was characterized by an inner bowl which was threaded into an outer bowl, with smoke traveling through the bottom of the inner bowl to reach the airway much as in a traditional gourd calabash. On September 11, 1924, the Ellensburg Daily Record reported from Chicago that Mr. Lyon worked from a small tin shanty on the outskirts of Chicago, but upon Dawes' nomination for the Vice Presidency became swamped by orders for the pipe, with 75,000 orders received at that time, and a factory struggling to produce 1,000 pipes a month. 
The Lyon pipe was invented by Charles H. Lyon (1862-1947) while working in his workshop in the Chicago area in the early 1920's. In late 1920, the inventor, a former millwright, was without his right arm due to a factory accident he suffered during World War I, without a job, and at 60 contemplating a start in the real estate business to feed his family. While considering his options, he thought up the pipe that bears his name, and applied for a patent for its design on September 23, 1920. The following year, having seen him smoking a pipe, Lyon sent a pipe to the General as a sampler and the General began ordering the pipes by the dozen.
The two became friends, and General Dawes used the pipe as a campaign giveaway in his 1924 campaign for the Vice Presidency, making the pipe famous. In the meantime, Lyon had been granted a patent for the pipe on September 18, 1923. It is reported in Lyon's obituary on January 2, 1947 in the Oakland Tribune that Dawes and Lyon had become partners in the production of the pipe. 
Category:Pipe makers by nationality
Category:United States
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Thomas Kalmar

Thomas Kalmar is one of the newest generation of pipe makers from Germany who are attracting a lot of attention. He was born in Hungary in 1978. Since 2009 he has lived with his family in the picturesque Bavarian Forest . After graduating from university as a horticultural engineer, he worked in the public sector for seven years.
In 2010, he decided to make a fundamental change of direction and opened an online shop with his wife. There he offered restored tobacco pipes , which he took great pleasure in reviving. This also encouraged him to learn basic skills in pipe making.
He has been a passionate pipe smoker for more than 20 years . He has long had the dream of one day making his own pipes under his name. In March 2022, he finally made this dream come true and began making handmade tobacco pipes as a self-taught craftsman . This new, creative phase opened up a whole new world for him that enchanted him with its freedom.
He uses his social media channels as a resonance chamber , through which he receives valuable feedback.
Thomas Kalmar uses only high-quality Italian briar wood from Mimmo ( Mimmo Romeo, Romeo Pipe ) as well as Greek plateaux or ebauchon. For decorations he uses natural materials , including various domestic and exotic woods and various types of horn. The mouthpieces are made of fine ebonite or acrylic . The integration of 9mm filter holes is no problem for him.
Thomas has set up his workshop in a small wooden house at the foot of the Falkenstein. Making a tobacco pipe is a time-consuming, creative process that requires a lot of patience and dedication. The end result is a unique work of craftsmanship.
Thomas Kalmar is a regular exhibitor at various pipe fairs and can be found there with his wife as a listening, pleasant contact person. Courtesy Cigarworld
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=== Contact Information ===
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 Website: https://www.thomaskalmarpipes.com/
 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kalmarpipes
 E-mail: kalmarthomas@hotmail.com
Category:Pipe makers by nationality
Category:Germany
Thompson, Norm

Norman Anchor Thompson, Sr. (known as "Norm Thompson") was an immigrant from Britain. He had settled in Salt Lake City before fighting for Canada in World War I. After the war he lived briefly in Los Angeles before settling in Portland, Oregon. Norm Thompson started a mail order only business in 1949 as a way to sell his homemade flies for fly-fishing by placing an advertisement in Field & Stream. I understand tobacco products were sold via the mail order business, as well, to a limited degree. Around 1951 he handed over the mail order business to Peter Alport, his son-in-law. Alport worked to expand the company's product offerings beyond fly-fishing items and into clothing and other outdoor merchandise, plus he developed the company's slogan of "Escape from the ordinary".
Norm Thompson would go on to own seven pipe shops, the first one in 1959, and later two nightclubs, all in the Portland area. Norm Thompson Pipe Shops sold higher end pipes, from the likes of Dunhill, Charatan, and Savinelli. Norm Thompson died in 1968 from complications related to his exposure to mustard gas during his World War I military service in Europe.
The First Edition Norm Thompson Pipe Catalogue (right column of this article) was likely a publication that was a product of Peter Alport, as the slogan "Escape from the ordinary" (a slogan credited to Alport) is clearly seen in the publication. No date can be seen on the publication, but we conclude it is late 1960s to early 1970s. Of interest, is the evidence of collaboration between Norm Thompson and Charatan, with Charatan credited with making the Norm Thompson "Regent". This would have been during the Lane Era. It is also likely that Norm Thompson pipes stamped "Made in Italy" were a Norm Thompson - Savinelli collaboration.
A Norm Thompson-Charatan collaboration (above)
Norm Thompson pipes (above), likely made by Savinelli
(Photos courtesy of Steve Charbonneau)
Article written by Steve Charbonneau (aka "Humblepipe")
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Category:Italy
Thorburn Clark Ltd.

From what I can gather THORBURN CLARK Ltd. was a tobacconist shop in Manchester, England. They had pipes stamped as such, and the pipes were perhaps carved on premesis. The model I have in front of me is a larger scale bent billiard with model "STANDARD" stamped at an angle on the side. In addition is the stamping RONNIE FORSTER on the bottom, who I assume is their carver. The shop is believed to be out of business since the 1970's.
Thorburn Clark's logo & markings: http://www.pipephil.eu/logos/en/logo-t2.html#thorburnclark
Thoro-Kleen

The Greenwich House Thoro-Kleen was a metal pipe system sold with both a metal outer bowl with a briar insert and a full briar bowl. They are from the same family as the Roybrooke, Comet, and Original Gridiron pipes, and parts from all are believed to be interchangeable. The pipes were sold by the Greenwich House Corporation, located in 1947 at 939-M 8th Avenue, N.Y. 19, N.Y.. The pipe set sold for $2.50 in 1947.
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Category: United States
Thorpe

Tim Thorpe
thumb|left|Tim ThorpethumbLike many other carvers I received my first pipe kit from Tim West. After carving 3 pipe kits I realized that I truly had passion for pipe making. Over the years I have had help from Tim West and would not be where I am at today in pipe making without him. I have always experimented with many different materials and started making stems from rods as well. All of my pipes are made one at a time with close attention to detail. I mostly do sandblasting at the present, time although some pipes are smooth depending on the grain. It has been a wonderful journey. I've meet great people in the pipe world and I am grateful to be able to continue making pipes. I mostly use German ebonite rods and some bakelite. My stamping includes my initials and the year the pipe was crafted. 
Contact Information:
 Timothy W. Thorpe
 Website: timthorpepipes.com
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