A perfect gift for pipe smokers (and anyone with a penchant for the occasional puff), The Pipe Companion details the origins, history, and customs of pipe smoking. This new addition to our critically acclaimed series of connoisseur's companions includes nearly 125 full-color photographs highlighting the work of more than 50 master pipe carvers from around the world. It also features information on how to choose, smoke, and care for your pipe, as well as a glossary of terms and addresses of pipe makers.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best source, so far!,
By "merlin87" (Union Grove, AL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pipe Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide (Connoisseur's Guides) (Hardcover)
I have a number of pipe books and this is by far the best I have read. It has info on how each company prepares the briar as well as how they make their pipes. If I were to have to keep but one pipe book, this is the one I would choose!
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Whats there is great, but I wanted even more.,
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This review is from: Pipe Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide (Connoisseur's Guides) (Hardcover)
This is an informative and beautifully printed and illustrated book. Looking at the beautiful glossy photographs and reading the distinctive text is a delight, particularly when it is accompanied by smoking one of the fine pipes made by the carver you're reading about. However, I did wish that the book were comprehensive enough to fully live up to its subtitle of "A Connoisseur's Guide." I realize that to have included more the talented individuals and companies in Italy (e.g., Ascorti, Caminetto, Viprati, Tombari, Cavicchi,), Denmark (e.g., Former, Karl-Erik ), England (e, g., Charatan, Upshall), Austria (e.g., Matzhold), France (Comoy), Germany (Barbi, Becker, Mummert, Safferling) and elsewhere that are also handcrafting "high end" pipes would have made the book more expensive, but what a treasure it would have been. And given this book's subtitle, why spend precious pages describing Dr. Grabow, a company whose yearly production of machined pipes far exceeds the total output of all the artisans that are included in the book? If a subsequent edition is planned, I hope the author also thinks about consistently making his price ranges even more meaningful to the serious buyer by matching them up with the grading systems used by each carver. Even if this is not done in the text, an appendix just giving the grading systems would be most helpful.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best source, so far!,
By "merlin87" (Union Grove, AL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Pipe Companion: A Connoisseur's Guide (Connoisseur's Guides) (Hardcover)
I have a number of pipe books and this is by far the best I have read. It has info on how each company prepares the briar as well as how they make their pipes. If I were to have to keep but one pipe book, this is the one I would choose!
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In Eastern North America, the earliest pipes date from the middle Woodland period-about 500 B.C. to 500 A.D. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plateau briar, briar blocks, figural pipes, freehand pipes, pipe carver, tobacco chamber, vulcanite rods, pipe carving, carving pipes, retail prices range, pipe styles, perfect pipe, heath tree, few carvers, antique pipes, pipe production, pipe makers, pipe making, pipe shapes, quality pipe, porcelain pipes, sanding discs, other carvers, carved pipes, briar pipes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Lars Ivarsson, New York, Anne Julie, Jess Chonowitsch, Mastro de Paja, World War, Achille Savinelli, Alfred Baier, Alfred Dunhill, Paolo Becker, Sixten Ivarsson, David Field, Julius Vesz, North America, Pipe Brebbia, Hillsboro Road Nashville, Joan Saladich, Native American, North Carolina, Old World, Saint Claude, Steve Weiner, Thomas Cristiano, Boswell's Pipe New!
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In Eastern North America, the earliest pipes date from the middle Woodland period-about 500 B.C. to 500 A.D. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
plateau briar, briar blocks, figural pipes, freehand pipes, pipe carver, tobacco chamber, vulcanite rods, pipe carving, carving pipes, retail prices range, pipe styles, perfect pipe, heath tree, few carvers, antique pipes, pipe production, pipe makers, pipe making, pipe shapes, quality pipe, porcelain pipes, sanding discs, other carvers, carved pipes, briar pipes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Lars Ivarsson, New York, Anne Julie, Jess Chonowitsch, Mastro de Paja, World War, Achille Savinelli, Alfred Baier, Alfred Dunhill, Paolo Becker, Sixten Ivarsson, David Field, Julius Vesz, North America, Pipe Brebbia, Hillsboro Road Nashville, Joan Saladich, Native American, North Carolina, Old World, Saint Claude, Steve Weiner, Thomas Cristiano, Boswell's Pipe New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Ultimate Pipe Book by Richard Carleton Hacker on page 8, and page 10
- Alfred Dunhill: Sought After Since 1893 by Michael Balfour on page 10, and Back Matter
- The Pipe Book by Alfred Dunhill on page 8, and page 10
- A Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes (A Schiffer Book for Collectors) by Ben Rapaport on page 10, and Back Matter
- The Perfect Pipe by Paul H. Jeffers on page 10
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