My New Marxman Bench Made Pipe

[Briar Lee]

This morning I bought a Mel-o grade Marxman for $20 delivered.



I do believe the old advertisements that claimed each Marxman was hand cut and bench made according to small batch production standards. But Marx had to peddle enough pipes to keep placing those beautiful professionally illustrated ads, and the Marxman shop was a factory, after all was said and done.

Did Bob Marx command there be so many Mel-o grades, so many Super Briars, and so many Benchmades according to orders?

Or did the best wind up Benchmades, a little less fancy a Super Briar, and Mel-o took up the rest that weren’t firewood?

 

[telescopes]

This morning I bought a Mel-o grade Marxman for $20 delivered.

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I do believe the old advertisements that claimed each Marxman was hand cut and bench made according to small batch production standards. But Marx had to peddle enough pipes to keep placing those beautiful professionally illustrated ads, and the Marxman shop was a factory, after all was said and done.

Did Bob Marx command there be so many Mel-o grades, so many Super Briars, and so many Benchmades according to orders?

Or did the best wind up Benchmades, a little less fancy a Super Briar, and Mel-o took up the rest that weren’t firewood?

I thought long and hard about that one. However, I have enough Marxmans. I am currently looking at a Cowan. Cowan was one of his carvers who went rogue and struck out on his own. They are even more crazy. But, strangely, they come across as high art you'd see in the sixties.

Imagine if Van Hopple made pipes.

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[telescopes]

Here is a very unique Marxman Hammer that was restored by Reborn pipes. @didimauw and @Briar Lee. Would you consider this?

 

[didimauw]

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Here is a very unique Marxman Hammer that was restored by Reborn pipes. @didimauw and @Briar Lee. Would you consider this?

Nah.

1. Used
2. Huge
3. Square lol

But in all honesty, that looks like a great chunk of briar! Still nice to look at!

 

[Briar Lee]

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Here is a very unique Marxman Hammer that was restored by Reborn pipes. @didimauw and @Briar Lee. Would you consider this?

Marxman made a lot of “specials” like that which weren’t advertised or cataloged.

I would like to own a 400, which was Marxman’s top of the line $25 pipe.

 

[telescopes]

I would like to own a 400, which was Marxman’s top of the line $25 pipe.

No, I would like to own a 400 Marxman.

 

[didimauw]

No, I would like to own a 400 Marxman.

Got any links or pictures to these high end pipes???

 

[telescopes]

This might be it:It fits the description of a purple lined case.

My Royal looks similar, but there is no case.

Regardless, anyone who owns a 400 had their name written in a special purple lined book.

Is your name In the Good Book?

@didimauw

 

[LotusEater]

You literally described everything I couldn't think to say!

They're just....so.....wierd!

Sounds like someone drank the
Kool-Aid

 

[telescopes]

Marxman 400 Pipe Case BLUE VELVET LINED Expensive 1940's Hand Made Briar RARE! | #459822232

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, A VINTAGE 1940'S DELUXE MARXMAN PIPE CASE FOR THEIR PREMIUM FOUR HUNDRED PIPE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. INCLUDED IN THE PHOTOS IS A PAGE TAKEN FROM A 1945 MARXMAN PIPES INC.

www.worthpoint.com

 

[telescopes]

Sounds like someone drank the
Kool-Aid
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You know you want some. You know you do...

 

[didimauw]

Sounds like someone drank the
Kool-Aid
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Lmao. Nah, I just like to see pictures of the koolaid!

 

[didimauw]

Marxman 400 Pipe Case BLUE VELVET LINED Expensive 1940's Hand Made Briar RARE! | #459822232

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, A VINTAGE 1940'S DELUXE MARXMAN PIPE CASE FOR THEIR PREMIUM FOUR HUNDRED PIPE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION. INCLUDED IN THE PHOTOS IS A PAGE TAKEN FROM A 1945 MARXMAN PIPES INC.

www.worthpoint.com

Man....it still comes with a wierd carving?!?!? I half expected a straight grained smooth!

 

[telescopes]

Lmao. Nah, I just like to see pictures of the koolaid!

It will happen. One night, when you are alone in the dark, you will suddenly be taken over by the desire to own an incredibly ugly pipe with crazy rusticated marking. You won't know why you feel this way. You just will.

And @LotusEater, just because you are in KC and surrounded by the cornfields of the midwest, you aren't safe either.

 

[didimauw]

It will happen. One night, when you are alone in the dark, you will suddenly be taken over by the desire to own an incredibly ugly pipe with crazy rusticated marking. You won't know why you feel this way. You just will.

And @LotusEater, just because you are in KC and surrounded by the cornfields of the midwest, you aren't safe either.

Yeah I think @LotusEater is a closet Marxman fan. He probably has a bunch!

 

[LotusEater]

Yeah I think @LotusEater is a closet Marxman fan. He probably has a bunch!

I have more than few guilty pleasures but Marxman pipes are not one of them.

I like reading @telescopes musing's I’m just not buying what he’s selling in this particular case

 

[telescopes]

The Guilty Pleasures.... @LotusEater

The secretive closeted pipe smoker lurks through the darkened alleyway pipe shops of yesteryear, sorting and parsing through the piles of old Grabows, Medicoes, Yello-boles, and all manner of older pipes. Rusticated visions of worm chewed paths across Old English stained briar rolls across his palms as he examines and catalogs the various treasures he finds in the boxes strewn across the glass cabinets and curios. And there, near the back of the pile, he spots it. You see it, don't you. You sense it. With a trembling hand, you wrap your fingers around it and bring it slowly to your eyes. Yes, there in the lantern lit light flickering in the low areas under the table where you kneel, you see it, all of it. Yes, it is the 400.

And now it is yours.

 

[didimauw]

I have more than few guilty pleasures but Marxman pipes are not one of them.

I like reading @telescopes musing's I’m just not buying what he’s selling in this particular case

Between him and Lee, those guys could make ANYTHING sound appealing!

 

[didimauw]

The Guilty Pleasures.... @LotusEater

The secretive closeted pipe smoker lurks through the darkened alleyway pipe shops of yesteryear, sorting and parsing through the piles of old Grabows, Medicoes, Yello-boles, and all manner of older pipes. Rusticated visions of worm chewed paths across Old English stained briar rolls across his palms as he examines and catalogs the various treasures he finds in the boxes strewn across the glass cabinets and curios. And there, near the back of the pile, he spots it. You see it, don't you. You sense it. With a trembling hand, you wrap your fingers around it and bring it slowly to your eyes. Yes, there in the lantern lit light flickering in the low areas under the table where you kneel, you see it, all of it. Yes, it is the 400.

And now it is yours.

New novel, 50 shades of briar???

I think I need a shower now....

 

[didimauw]

Also, @telescopes you should start a Show off thread for the Marxmans. Im pretty sure there isn't one yet.