That, I'm currently trying to find out. I am asking who originally posted it via pm. I couldn't find any actual pdfs to scan thru of the books.I've only been casually following this thread (though it did cause me to buy one) so I was just wondering , what year would that have been published ?
Fun read, thanks for posting. It reads as if it were written by an ad man rather than a reporter. What magazine was that from?
Found it interesting that he turned down an offer for the Reds.
I have a pipe that looks like a Mel-o and has DELUXE and the Imported Briar Crown stamp they used, but no Marxman anywhere. So yes, they did, altho I have no way to prove it, what I have is absolutely a Marxman, going by looks and feel.
See, that’s how Van rows. There is no proof that Louis Cowan’s first name was Robert. He went by Louis in all all of his past history. Van conjectured that Robert was his first name. Please be careful repeating what he says. LOL
Lets be clear. There is no evidence that Lewis Cowan‘s first name was Robert - or that he went by that moniker. The other Cowan you referred to owned a pipe shop and there is no evidence he was involved in pipe design or production for Marx - other than what I previously submitted on here as a joke. As you saw, if you repeat something on here enough, other people might share it as fact and for true pipe historians that becomes a problem. It might not be for you - fair enough. But given this site is used by AI as a material source, it doesn’t help to state things that are only conjecture and then not identify those statements as such.View attachment 381748
Thaf styled RL is a maker’s mark.
At Marxman there was Robert L Marx.
Here’s how he carved two signed pipes in 1987.
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Here is some of Robert Louis (maybe Lewis) Cowan’s work, for certain.
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A Scottish mother named him after Robert Louis Stevenson most likely.
Wonder why my mother named me Van?.
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And could Helen have yelled “Bob” at anybody but Robert L Marx?
Oh, and I’m sure Helen hired some waddling bowlegged grandma to greet the customers, too.
It was a small shop.
They had two Robert L’s there.
And, not all their production was stamped Marxman. Here’s a no name Wally Frank special, only stamped Imported Briar, but Cowan and Helen and Bob made this.
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The hand made long tenon stem fits a marked Benchmade, but not perfectly.
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Marks mean something on a pipe, the same as all the marks on a Winchester Model 12 of the same era tell a story.
Custombilt was a failure but Mincer was trying to produce hand carved Algerian pipes in grades from $2.50 to $25.
For the rugged outdoor man of action’s sweetie to give him for birthdays and Christmas nobody ever came close to the-
Pipes Cowan designed, Helen approved the style, and Robert L Marx sold the shit out of.
Yeah, if you Google something, what you see in the ai window is drawn from forums and other places like this.
There’s a 1946 Pipes Magazine piece that lists Lewis Cowan as the designer and head of the shop and how he was in America 29 years in 1946.
"If the blind leadeth the blind, shall not both fall into the ditch?"
