No Pipe Collection is Complete Without at Least One (fill in blank) Brand Pipe..

[jmatt]

OK - all of you out there with this highly contagious PAD. I realize there's all variety of collections possible, from the Italian collector to the straight grain collector, to the billiard collector, to the Dunhill collector.
But simply as far as brands go, in order to have a decent collection of the most significant brands historically, which brands go on the list?
Dunhill

Peterson

Savinelli

Stanwell

Kaywoodie

Butz-Choquin

etc.
What brand would you think most people should have at least one of in their collection?

 

[dwt63]

Savinelli, definitely.

 

[frank13]

Peterson, for sure.

A couple of cheaper Dr. Grabows. (Definite day-to-day work horses)

 

[tuold]

Buttner
Just got mine in the mail today.

 

[natenice1]

GBD

 

[sablebrush52]

Historically significant:
Family era Barling YOW, Special, Guinea Grain, Quaint

Comoy - Blue Riband, Extraordinaire, Specimen Straight Grain

Sasieni 4 and/or 8 Dot

Charatan - Pre-Lane and Lane Era

Dunhill - patent era, shell, DRR

Loewe

BBB

GBD

Ser Jacopo

Castello

Caminetto

Savinelli

Sixten Ivarsson

Upshall

Ashton

Talbert - Goblin, Halloween

Kaywoodie - shank logo super grain, pre-war flame grain

Jack H Weinberger

Mark Tinsky

Dr Gabrow

Linkman's

Marxman

William Demuth

Lewis

Nachwalter

Paul Perri

Roush

Butera

Kirsten
There are many others who I have forgotten to add, this list being just off the top of my head, and there are others who are just as accomplished, but these are makes and makers with long careers, whose work influenced many others. I have roughly half of these, so my motley collection is woefully incomplete from a historic standpoint.

 

[dmcmtk]

Without going to far into the esoteric, and based on the parameters of the OP,

Dunhill

Sasieni

Barling's

Peterson's

Stanwell

Charatan's

Comoy's
and....

 

[cobguy]

What brand would you think most people should have at least one of in their collection?

No matter what briars you end up choosing, everyone should also have at least a couple of MM Cobs.
As for historical significance, they've been handcrafted for over 145 years in Washington, Missouri.

 

[peckinpahhombre]

Jesse has a good list there. I would add JT Cooke to that list though - I certainly think he is historically significant with respect to the evolution of sandblasting in construction of fine pipes.

 

[lucky695]

it's hard to pick a specific "BRAND". I love hand mades. They are art work to me...some I have I havent' got the courage up yet to put a match to. For Smoking purposes though it varies. I was always told I had to get a birthyear Peterson...which I did a few months back. Peterson 307. Great pipe!!!

But +1 on cobguy I love my MM Country Gentleman.

 

[sablebrush52]

Cooke is definitely an oversight. I also neglected to mention Genod, Butz-Choquin, and Salomon & Gluckstein. We tend to be a bit Anglocentric in our thinking, but the classic shapes are originally French, not English, and without the French pipemakers' introduction of briar, none of the rest mentioned above, excepting cobs and Barling, would have been around. I'm including Barling because they were already a pipe making/mounting concern offering meerschaum pipes before the introduction of briar. They'd been around for close to a century before Dunhill started up.

 

[danielplainview]

Besides the usual suspects; MM cob and Dr Grabow.

 

[pruss]

I also second Jesse's list, and the subsequent additions.
To the "historically significant" list I'd add...

- Comoy's - Royal and Patent Grand Slam pipes (with the filter works intact)

- KB&B - Pat. App. For Drinkless pipes

- Custombilt - Mincer Era pipes
-- Pat

 

[mrenglish]

Falcon

Rad Davis

Nate King

Thomas James

Ryan Alden

Eric Gainey

Briar Bird

J&J Pipes

Clark Layton
The bottom five on this list are all relatively new to the scene but are doing some fantastic work.
I would also add Chheda to the list. Premal has been instrumental in helping new American pipe carvers up their game in quality and engineering. We are also seeing a lot more collaboration between American pipe makers which, in my opinion, is due to Premal. There has always been a sharing of knowledge but I think he's given it more visibility and we are seeing more pipes for sale with several pipe makers working on them together.

 

[shaintiques]

Nobody said Nording so I will add him to the list.

 

[tppytel]

I agree with Nording's inclusion, and I'd add Preben Holm as another notable Danish make. The suggestions seem very Anglocentric so far. Of course, you could add Sixten Ivarsson and other big Danish artisans, but those tend to be solidly in collector territory. I think Preben Holm and Nording represent the history well without breaking the bank. I'm not a big Danish enthusiast, so I'm probably missing others too.

 

[jmatt]

Thanks for all the contributions. I'm loving this list.

 

[klause]

Everything on Sablebrush's list.
And, gonna have to add:
Celius - specifically the Root series

Zettervig - his work is patchy, but when he shines he blinds

Balkovec - going places

 

[jmatt]

From France I think there's a big 3:
Butz-Choquin (already mentioned)

Chacom

Ropp

 

[newbroom]

Obviously a wide range of opinions. Once I got my Dunhill Shellbriar, I let off the gas a little with my PAD.

I've got 3 'brands' in the first list.

I don't have a smokeable meer...I've got one, but it's something I'm keeping as a collection. (Kiko Hillbilly)similar to this:

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I will look to acquire a Pete, a Sav, and a Barling or any other that strike that chord within.