I have a couple of Lees and a Pipe Maker that were tiny, but this Marxman is the smallest serious, well made, nicely finished smokable briar pipe I’ve ever seen.
It will hold a cigarrete worth of tobacco and is an excellent, cool, good smoker.
I don’t know if the stinger is removable, but it all works well the way it is.
It was made of a nicely grained, well polished piece of Algerian briar, no fills, large bowl for the size of pipe, and good vulcanite stem. A pipe cleaner goes through the stem and shank but, there’s only a hole in the middle of the bottom of the chamber and another on the side of the stinger, to allow a draw. The odd WDC Milano type screw stem seems the best way to join such tiny surfaces, and the mortise is simply screw threaded briar. You’d need to be careful taking it apart.
When the other men had a smoke break, the owner could smoke a pipe instead.
It appears this was made in New York City before 1954, by Bob and Helen Marx. They must have made a lot more than one, you know?
It will hold a cigarrete worth of tobacco and is an excellent, cool, good smoker.
I don’t know if the stinger is removable, but it all works well the way it is.
It was made of a nicely grained, well polished piece of Algerian briar, no fills, large bowl for the size of pipe, and good vulcanite stem. A pipe cleaner goes through the stem and shank but, there’s only a hole in the middle of the bottom of the chamber and another on the side of the stinger, to allow a draw. The odd WDC Milano type screw stem seems the best way to join such tiny surfaces, and the mortise is simply screw threaded briar. You’d need to be careful taking it apart.
When the other men had a smoke break, the owner could smoke a pipe instead.
It appears this was made in New York City before 1954, by Bob and Helen Marx. They must have made a lot more than one, you know?
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