Unusually Large for a French Pipe
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Really strange for a French piece and very odd to be magnum sized for the period. L. Roux appears to be from the 1950s.
In my pipe junk box which is mostly French stuff there were a few pretty sizable pipes. Like an om paul...not quite as large as this but they are out there. They just didnt constitue most of the pipes and probably were not chosen as the thing to import at the time. St Claude had a zillion pipe makers cranking out everything from tourist junk to good pipes. Eventually they got around to most sizes and shapes. They were not quite as discriminating as some makers. Fills abound. On seconds they can be pretty terrible looking. The price point probably reflected that.
I get most my estates from Germany. First, I do like filters. Second, ebay France is just full of burnt out and beaters. If you like CC pipes you can get them hand over fist and rebuild them. Anyway, point is there is a larger variety than someone from the outside would guess.
I get most my estates from Germany. First, I do like filters. Second, ebay France is just full of burnt out and beaters. If you like CC pipes you can get them hand over fist and rebuild them. Anyway, point is there is a larger variety than someone from the outside would guess.
That's kind of sad. If more were available around the size of the L. Roux above I'd probably buy more French pipes if they were unfiltered.
How about this for a giant French pipe
A sculpture of a tobacco pipe at St. Claude in the Rural Municipality of Greycommemorates early settlers who arrived here in 1892 from Saint-Claude, in the Jura region of France, where the main industry was manufacturing smoking pipes. It is 19 feet long and 5 feet high, and weighs just over 400 pounds. Funded by the St. Claude Chamber of Commerce, the sculpture is believed to be the second-largest smoking pipe in the world.
A sculpture of a tobacco pipe at St. Claude in the Rural Municipality of Greycommemorates early settlers who arrived here in 1892 from Saint-Claude, in the Jura region of France, where the main industry was manufacturing smoking pipes. It is 19 feet long and 5 feet high, and weighs just over 400 pounds. Funded by the St. Claude Chamber of Commerce, the sculpture is believed to be the second-largest smoking pipe in the world.
Most are smaller...Just saying they exist. Also you wont find filtered pipes here that are older...at least very few. Lots of stingers but you can remove them.
You left out the rest of the article:
"While this has not been confirmed to be the second-largest smoking pipe in the world, the largest has been confirmed an can be found hanging from the toothless jaw of Captain Duane of the Black Frigate."
There are also things like this
With that short shank you’ll have to be careful not to burn your eye lol.
For all it’s long bowl the pipe weighs 58 grams, and there’s a 21 mm (.827”) hole drilled in it.
I think how those were made was they took a machine that usually made Canadian long stem pipes and made a fat, long bowl instead of a long stem, then turned down what would have been the bowl to a short stem. It would have used the same block of briar.
It caught at least one customer.
The chamber on that one has less depth than my smallest pipe.
It's an optical illusion created by the thickness of the shank. The overall length is 5 5 inches.
It's a trick of the shape. The stummel and chamber dimensions are nearly identical to my Von Erck.For all it’s long bowl the pipe weighs 58 grams, and there’s a 21 mm (.827”) hole drilled in it.
I think how those were made was they took a machine that usually made Canadian long stem pipes and made a fat, long bowl instead of a long stem, then turned down what would have been the bowl to a short stem. It would have used the same block of briar.
It caught at least one customer.
Teeth limit the size of the pipes that can be clenched. That factory explosion revolutionized my enjoyment of pipe smoking.
I own an Austrian hunting pipe made in West Germany that weighs 120 grams.
Almost half is the bowl.
Then there’s a U shaped connector.
It clenches well and the bowl hold a lot of tobacco.
Mine is the lonely Fraulien size, I’ve been told.
It was styled to catch a woman buying a gift for her soldier boy.
The limit on pipe size is what will sell.
Jeff (@TheIronMonkey) has a Ropp cherry wood that can double as a mallet 
Once upon a time I owned a Custombuilt with a chamber so wide it was not a good smoke.
If I smoked it as I did other pipes the fire never reached the walls.
And if I toked on it enough to get a good ember it nearly lit my nose on fire.
A whole bunch of my Marxman pipes have .850” chambers and some .880”, and those are wonderful.
I suppose a pipe might be made with a foot long bowl, but about an inch wide might be the practical limit,,,,same as a cigar.
If I smoked it as I did other pipes the fire never reached the walls.
And if I toked on it enough to get a good ember it nearly lit my nose on fire.
A whole bunch of my Marxman pipes have .850” chambers and some .880”, and those are wonderful.
I suppose a pipe might be made with a foot long bowl, but about an inch wide might be the practical limit,,,,same as a cigar.
Somebody probably got fed up with French men and the rumors about their small dicks tools.
Hasn't shipped yet but for less than a Grant I'm seeing a potential favorite.So Duane,
When will it arrive????