Pipe with Leather

[armonts]

For the curious, there is still an old-fashioned pipe shop in Paris, "A la Pipe du Nord", if you type on "online sale" and "other pipes" you can still find 2-3 pipes Jeantet covered with leather as once not too expensive ...

 

[Chasing Embers]

You can often find Longchamp, and Savinelli Cricket pipes fairly inexpensive around the net as well.

 

[npod]

Or you can buy this overpriced pipe for $2,000 https://www.smokingpipes.com/pipes/new/todd-johnson/moreinfo.cfm?product_id=255647

 

[mso489]

Those tightly stitched leather covers were "the thing" back in the fifties, what you wanted as you puffed on the commuter platform waiting to board the smoking car.

 

[jaytex1969]

Man, I thought this thread was headed in a different direction!

:rofl:

 

[jpmcwjr]

Whoa! Guess the stem had major flaws.
Don't like it at any price......

 

[crashthegrey]

I enjoy my one leather covered pipe from time to time. I still want a cricket, mostly for when I am listening to cricket matches. Because I am a dork.

 

[saltedplug]

You don't seem to understand that because Todd Johnson made the pipe he imbued a $50.00 block with the special magic that multiplies its value by twenty. By block the escalation of price by brand and maker becomes laughable. smokingpipes seems to start prices at $350.00 for any artisan pipe they carry, so by maker that escalation is more than six times, which deserves more than a chuckle. I don't see anything that justifies such prices beyond consumer myopia, marketing and greed. If Chris Askwith and Jimmy Craig Ashtons are more than adequate pipes, wherefore the cachet, and prices, of the pipe royalty?
myopia

marketing

greed
myopia

marketing

greed

etc., etc.

 

[craiginthecorn]

I like my Kiko meerschaum-lined, leather-wrapped pipe. It's just a bit difficult to find d these leather-wrapped pipes in good shape.

 

[foggymountain]

Leather is a trick to hide defective or poor quality briar. So is enamel.

 

[snowyowl]

I have leather-covered Ropps from the 60s-early 70s:

 

[ray47]

I have a 7 day set of Longchamp pipes contained in a Longchamp case. All of them smoke great. My first pipe was a Longchamp and was hooked ever since.

 

[mso489]

These were the coolest accessory to go with your narrow lapel suit, narrow tie, and narrow snap brim fedora. You were ready to do business. Like all fashion, it will all come back around. I can hear them shuffling around in the garment district and at St. Claude already.

 

[akfilm]

These were the coolest accessory to go with your narrow lapel suit, narrow tie, and narrow snap brim fedora. You were ready to do business. Like all fashion, it will all come back around. I can hear them shuffling around in the garment district and at St. Claude already.

Awesome! I'll have my leather covered meerschaum line medico ready to go! Strange little pipe, but a fun smoker, even has a stringer, they went all out on it.
To the OP, I couldn't find a pipe shop I was impressed with when I was in Paris recently, I would be wary of a modern pipe having a leather cover...I would immediately think they were hiding a major flaw.

 

[crashthegrey]

Leather also wasn't just a trick to hide briar. Some of those leather pipes turn out to be beautiful underneath. For a time, it was in vogue, so manufacturers would leather wrap no matter what.