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I hesitate posting numbers, because I don't want to seem like a braggart. Ha ha, nahhhh, actually, I don't mind being a braggart, I just hate counting, ha ha. The most pipes that I have in my collection are Hilsons, but they swing between Belgium and Holland. Now, I only buy the ones from Holland.
The second most pipes I have are Danish.
 

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Lifer
May 12, 2015
26,264
30,352
Carmel Valley, CA
Actually, immediately after WW2, Kaywoodie experimented with Manzanita, or "mission briar" that grew in California. As a connoisseur of Imported Briar, I have no experience with it, of course. Desperate people even make pipes out of vegetable waste like corn cobs and gourds, even. Or rocks they dig up. Only briar that's imported and proudly stated so on the shank for me. Do your "Dunhill" pipes use imported briar? No! Some vague kind of root is all they imprint. Don't get me started on soggy, boggy morta, so old it's practically fossilized. Also not imported. Hmpf.
Thanks. I live where Manzanita is plentiful, and sure as hell it's not briar in my book. Good info, though!
 
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Briar Lee

Lifer
Sep 4, 2021
4,960
14,360
Humansville Missouri
I won’t count my pipes (I might confirm my obsession) but the vast majority of my stash are American made pipes of the late thirties, forties and fifties. I own over a hundred Lees and I’m working on Marxman pipes pretty heavy. That doesn’t count all the Kaywoodies and Webers and Grabows and Pipe Maker and Carey’s and WDC branded pipes.

The majority of my newer briars were made in Italy, although a small percentage of my stash.

I have several large Danish freehands.

A few of my most expensive pipes were London made.

There is a small smattering of pipes made in Israel, France, and Greece.

And I own six good Turkish meerschaums , one clay pipe, a huge German hunting pipe, and MM cobs too numerous to mention.
 
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