An Old, Interesting Pipe

[pappymac]

Last February I started helping a lady sell some of her father-in-laws pipes. In exchange she gave me my pick of three of them. I kept a Castello Sea Rock KKK and a Thomas Cristiano. None of the others really grabbed me but I kept holding on to this one for some reason. I finally pulled it out and decided to smoke it.

It's just an Algerian briar made in France, but I think I kept it because it's stamp "duTreil N. O. L. A." I did some research and one of the older New Orleans Pipe Club members remembered the shop. It was on Canal Street in New Orleans and went out of business around 1963.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Neat piece of Louisiana history!

 

[ssjones]

That is a pretty cool find! Any pictures of the old shop? Google didn't yield any results. (but a doctor by that name with a practice in NOLA)

 

[trubka2]

Beautiful pipe! I've got a wonderful French Tinderbox pipe stamped Algerian Briar, kind of the same deal. I love those old pipes made for long defunct tobaconists. Enjoy!

 

[kcghost]

Not a bad looking pipe.

 

[mikethompson]

Nice pipe with a nice little backstory. Is it just the lighting, or is the bowl a slightly different shade than the shank?

 

[pappymac]

Nice pipe with a nice little backstory. Is it just the lighting, or is the bowl a slightly different shade than the shank?

It's the lighting I think. That photo was taken outside.

That is a pretty cool find! Any pictures of the old shop? Google didn't yield any results. (but a doctor by that name with a practice in NOLA)

I've tried but have been unable to find anything so far. The club member who told me about the shop is in his late 80s and remembered shopping there.

 

[jguss]

Not too much to add to the backstory of your pipe. I can say that the business which sold it was called The Pipe Shop, which was located at 702 Gravier Street in the heart of New Orleans. The Pipe Shop was run by several siblings including Henry Viala Nadau du Treil (1915-1989), Anna Isabelle Nadau du Treil (1907-?), and Laura Rosalie Nadau du Treil (1917-1998). The first reference I could find to the shop was from 1963 and the last from 1973.

 

[elpfeife]

More nice work by Jguss!

 

[mso489]

Great convergence of French influence and the NOLA aura, and it looks like a good-smoking pipe, French after all.

 

[pappymac]

Not too much to add to the backstory of your pipe. I can say that the business which sold it was called The Pipe Shop, which was located at 702 Gravier Street in the heart of New Orleans. The Pipe Shop was run by several siblings including Henry Viala Nadau du Treil (1915-1989), Anna Isabelle Nadau du Treil (1907-?), and Laura Rosalie Nadau du Treil (1917-1998). The first reference I could find to the shop was from 1963 and the last from 1973.

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Where did you find that?

 

[kcghost]

Nice find, John!

 

[jguss]

Where did you find that?

Various online subscription services, in this case especially genealogybank and ancestry.

 

[pappymac]

Various online subscription services, in this case especially genealogybank and ancestry.

I subscribe to both of those and have never thought about searching for something like that.