Ben Rapaport is a member of the All Things Meerschaum group on Smoker's Forum, that I was asked to start nearly 3 years ago. Currently, it is comprised of 325 members and is the only group, that I'm aware of that has Meerschaums and it's culture as the focus. Feel free to join, which some members of this forum have already done. Here's Ben's recommended reading list..., at least the most current one.
Christie's. South Kensington, September 2010, The Trevor Barton Collection
Palais Kinsky, Wiener Kunst Auktionen 41, 22-23 Oktober 2002
Guernsey's, A Gentleman's Collection, January 19-20, 1991
PB 84, Sotheby-Parke Bernet, Pipes, April 1978
Museum of Tobacco Art and History, Nashville, Meerschaum Masterpieces. The Premiere Art of Pipes (1991)
Hungarian National Museum, The History of the Hungarian Pipemaker’s Craft. History Through the Pipemaker’s Art (Budapest, 2000)
Schmied-Duperrex, A. e. Boccazzi-Varotto, A.The Lausanne Pipe Museum/Il Museo della Pipa di Losanna e degli Oggetti da Tabacco (Ivrea, 1989)
Muzei Iantaria. Mundshtuki i Trubki XVIII--Nachala XX Vekov iz Chastnykh Kollektsii: Katalog Vystavki (Mouthpieces and Pipes of the 18th--early 20th Century from Private Collections. Exhibition Catalogue) (2007)
In my own efforts to become more knowledgeable about this passion for fine tobaccos and Meerschaums, I've accumulated a modest library, which I plan to continue to build as both budget and opportunity present.
The reason that I'm publishing this list, which doesn't include the magazines and article reprints, is that it would be good to see what others are reading. If you have something that you feel could be a source worth recommending, I'd like to know more, and I suspect that others in this group would enjoy it as well..... One thing leads to another and so we teach and learn from each other.
Pipes, Public Auction; Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc.; 1978.
Tobacco: It’s History and Associations, Frederick William Fairholt, Public Domain.
Meerschaum Masterpieces, Museum of Tobacco Art and History.
Golden Horn Meerschaum Pipes, Augustus/Art Advertising & Golden Horn; 1975.
Pipes et Fumeurs de Pipes, Ramazzotti; Aldo Martello; Florence; 1975.
Davidoff: Legend-Myth-Reality, Wirtz; 2006.
Meerschaum Pipes @ ebay (1999-2010), Joao Matins.
The History of the Hungarian Pipemaker’s Craft, Keszthely Balatoni Museum, 2000.
Our Pipe-Smoking Forebears, Ferenc Levardy, 1994.
Antique Pipes, Carlos Armero, 1989.
The Lausanne Pipe Museum, Priuli & Verlucca, 1989.
The Art of Pipe Smoking, Joaquin Verdaguer, The Curlew Press ,1958.
Mill River Smoke: Stries and Essays, Marc Munroe Dion, 2010.
The Pipe Smoker’s Tobacco Book, Winans, 1977.
Confessions of a Pipeman, Schrier, Briar Books Press, 2008.
The Pipe Book, Alfred Dunhill, Gramercy Books, 2000.
Stokkebye: The Life & Good Times of a Tobacco Man, Stokkebye, Selective American Marketing, 2002.
Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization, Gately, Grove Press, 2001.
Catalogue No. XX, Adolph Framlai & Co., Briar Books Press, 2009.
An Arm-Chair in the Smoking-Room, Unknown Author, Public Domain, 2009.
The Ultimate Pipe Book, Hacker, Autumngold Publishing, 1984.
About Smoke: An Encyclopaedia of Smoking, Alfred Dunhill, Briar Books Press, 2009.
The Book of Pipes and Tobacco, Ehwa, Random House, 1974.
Collecting Antique Meerschaum Pipes, Rapaport, Schiffer Publishing, 1999.
Museum of Tobacco Art & History Guide Book, Rapaport, Donnelley & Sons, 1996.
The Gentleman’s Auction, Guernsey-S, 1991.
La Pipe, A. P. Bastien, 1973.
Meerschaum Museum, Governor of Eskisehir Bahaeddin Guney, 1989
