While chatting with my Chicago ZOOM buddies, I was smoking my Skipper pipe. Quite a few of us, those who frequented Harry Yablon's Gift and Tobacco Emporium, in Skokie, back in the mid 90s, reminisced about purchasing these pipes, during a kind of "trunk sale," for about $10-$15. All of us agreed that they turned out to be terrific smokers.
(Harry is now a manager at Iwan Reis.) He recently told me these were produced by Benton Pipes.
I had mine filled with some old, bulk Nat Sherman's 536 English Empire. A little dram of Jack Daniel's Single Barrel Barrel Proof complimented the tobacco nicely.