For nearly 200 years, meerschaum has been considered to be the finest material for making pipe bowls. Being porous, it absorbs the oils from burning tobacco and therefore produces a cool, dry smoke.

We need hardly remark to our smoking readers—and their name is legion—that the high price of meerschaum pipes has 147 led to the introduction of many cheaper substitutes and imitations, some ...

If that isn’t steampunk enough for you, Kropf’s Happy Piper sells corncob pipes crafted by Missouri Meerschaum Company, which after 150 years is the only remaining American maker of pipes made ...

I plugged “Green Man pipe” into Google and there it was: a pipe just like the one I was after, available for purchase on a website called Meerschaum Market.

Early pipes were made of metal, clay, porcelain, wood and meerschaum, a white, claylike mineral found in Asia Minor. Pipes became popular in the United States about 1820.

No inkwell, no blotter, no pipe rack. So today, what the heck, let's talk about pipes. It turns out that the history of pipe smoking goes back to ancient times and beyond.

Nestled along the Missouri River in quaint Washington, Mo., U.S. Farm Report visited Missouri Meerschaum Company in 2019, seeing the same brick building that has been brining corn cob pipes to ...

Although thousands of dollars are sometimes paid for antique Holmes-Watson sets, especially for pipes that have never been smoked, many modern, 8-inch-long pipes have sold for $350 to $500.

If you ever made an attempt to color a meerschaum pipe you may have noticed that in your eagerness to paint it a beautiful brown you have filled it again and again immediately after smoking, and ...

Two North Riding policemen had arrested a suspect they had spotted in North Ormesby “carrying a bundle and smoking a very nice meerschaum pipe, which afterwards was recognised by Mr Bolckow as ...