Max Zapf With Pics....Info Anyone??

That's a pretty spiffy little pipe!

Very nice looking. Don't know anything about it though.

Nice looking pipe, to bad I cant help with info

Max Zapf was born in Wurzburg, Bavaria on January 30, 1855. He emigrated to the States in April of 1880, and promptly settled into the pipe trade in NYC. After a few years he relocated to the midwest, staying in Minneapolis from 1885-1896; there he was listed as having a shop that sold pipes, meers, and umbrellas. Sometime between the end of 1896 and the beginning of 1897 Max moved to St Louis where he spent the next twenty years or so in the same line of business. There's an interesting apparent link with Jost, who had come to St Louis about a decade after Zapf. In the 1914 St Louis directory Jost adds a second address (110 N 6th) which just happens to be the same as Zapf's. My inference is that Jost was taking over Zapf's business as an expansion of his own. Certainly by the 1916 directory Zapf is no longer listed as a resident of the city, presumably having either died or moved away.
Is there anything more written anywhere on the case or pipe? Without more info it's tough for me to guess if your pipe dates from the Minneapolis or St Louis years (I suspect more likely the latter). Either way it's a beauty.