Early 1980s
DR. PLUMB STANDARD /
MEERSCHAUM
+
Samuel Gawith WESTMORLAND MIXTURE
Lining briar bowls and Calabash gourds with meerschaum goes back to at least the 1880s
As for 'doctors' being involved in pipe-naming off the top of my head I can think of only three -
Dr. Grabow and
Dr. Sir Morell Mackenzie apart from
Dr. Plumb and out of these three two were actually real doctors
'Dr.' Plumb
Was actually Mr. Plumb - although Dr. to his friends - and was a chartered accountant
"the late Leslie Watts Plumb, FCA. (1889-1941) Before World War II, he managed the business affairs of a smoking pipe factory Verguet Freres/ Marechal Ruchon at St Claude in the French Jura Mountains... where his Plumb Family lived in a flat adjacent to the factory premises.
He lent his name to the Dr. Plumb Smoking Pipe & I had always understood that he played a part in its promotion & design of the pipe's unique aluminum cooling filter system."
Dr. Grabow
"Dr. Paul E. Grabow (1868-1965) stated that he developed, or helped develop, the Dr. Grabow brand of pipes. This was a tactic used to convince people that a pipe developed, endorsed, and used by a medical physician would be 'more healthful' than a pipe that was not developed by someone in the medical community."
Courtesy Pipedia
Morell Mackenzie
"Sir Morell Mackenzie (1837-1892) was a British physician, one of the pioneers of laryngology in the United Kingdom. Nevertheless he failed to diagnose the throat cancer of German Emperor Frederick III ..."
1895 Harrods catalogue
“Probably one of the first filter pipes (paper filter) was the BBB “Sir Morell
Mackenzie‘. That this pipe was made before 1900 is shown by a letter dated August 27, 1891 from Sir Morell
Mackenzie regarding these models with longer mouthpieces. The brand survived into the 1960s.”
From a BBB paper by Jacques Cole