Show Us Your French Pipes

[ScienceSmoker]

I love French pipes, especially old ones. I have quite a few, but many of them are sort of roundabout French pipes, meaning they were made in France, then sold by a US tobacconist. For example, I have French A.Garfinkel, Tinder Box, Jost, and Peterson's LTD pipes (not THAT Peterson, but "Peterson's", which was a tobacconist/pipe shop in NY city).
Here is the "Specially selected for Peterson's LTD / Made in France" pipe:

 

[scloyd]

I purchased these three at A la Pipe du Nord in Paris in 2018. They are 150 year anniversary pipes each numbered ###/150. I kept the middle one 129/150 for myself and gifted the other two to my son and son-in-law.


I purchased this Jeantet on ebay for around $6. It states
JEANTET
PRODUCTION
SINCE 1807 on one side
and
CORSICAN BRIAR 67 H,
MADE IN FRANCE on the other side.


I purchased this Chacom Renard 185, Edition 1 from James Fox, Dublin.


I have few more, but these are my favorites.

 

[Grangerous]

Chacom 110 Festival

 

[OzPiper]

My first French pipe a Butz Choquin Bulldog bought in the early '70's

 

[OzPiper]

A made in St Claude prince (maker stamp too buffed out to see)
And a Courrieu Cogolin nose-warmer

 

[OzPiper]

A Chacom footed cutty

 

[OzPiper]

3 French made GBDs. The 2 silver banded ones are not date hallmarked

 

[OzPiper]

A FLC chubby billiard. English hallmarks, but French made from Algerian briar.
I have one from 1921 and 1922

I suspect amongst my old Britwoods there are quite a few more examples of English/British hallmarked, but French made pipes.

 

[ScienceSmoker]

My pre-war French made Jost Grammercy (that's how it's spelled on the pipe).

 

[OzPiper]

My pre-war French made Jost Grammercy (that's how it's spelled on the pipe).

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I love those stout/chubby stemmed pipes.

Unfortunately a lot of modern stout-stemmed pipes (with 9mm filters) don't quite seem to get the proportions (bowl:stem) right (just my personal opinion)

 

[ScienceSmoker]

My Butz-Choquin Ebene.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

I have a made in france pipe with Algerian briar. Does that count?

 

[ScienceSmoker]

I have a made in france pipe with Algerian briar. Does that count?

Of course!

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Of course!

Chevalier Armand

 

[HawkeyeLinus]

A little Yves St. Claude Interlude 96 I got from Steve at Reborn Pipes.

 

[lelik]

CHACOM 2015 POY #976/1245

 

[ScienceSmoker]

My horn-stemmed Corsica pipe. "Vielle Racine" [Old Root].
One of my (potentially) oldest pipes. Some places say that the Corsica brand was a "second" of Vuillard, but Corsica is actually the first brand name that Vuillard used when they started producing pipes at the start of the 1900's. The Vuillard company made match boxes and accessory boxes. It was only later that they started using "Vuillard" on pipes. I'm not 100% positive on the year of this pipe yet, but it's likely pre-war... and possible that it could even be pre-WWI. It's tiny and the grain is very nice, though the dark stain makes it a bit hard to really see how nice it is.

I rarely smoke this one, not just because of it's size and age, but because horn stems are gross to smoke from, especially very old ones, since as they get wet, they quickly become soft and somewhat slimy. I've been considering finding a replacement stem to use if/when I smoke it.

 

[ScienceSmoker]

My meerschaum lined Sommer pipe. It doesn't look like much, but it's a nice, straightforward billiard that smokes great.

 

[ScienceSmoker]

This is the second largest pipe I own. It's a Ropp's Make (does anyone know the difference, if any, between Ropp and Ropp's Make?)... and I can nearly stick my whole thumb in the bowl.

 

[mso489]

No photos, but I'm happy to pitch French pipes to those who appreciate them. It's an old culture of pipe-making in St. Claude and beyond, with high esprit and good competitive pricing. My first pipe was a Tinder Box St. Ives, which was made in France, and is still looking good and smoking well, a smooth bent pot with a distinctive vertical saddle stem. I have BC's, Chacoms, a small EWA churchwarden, and a Genod, and though the chambers stop at Group 4/medium, some seem more ample than that. For a newbie, I heartily suggest a French pipe or three. In general the quality is above the price point.