Pipe distributed by the wellknown men's magazine.

These two entries prove that Plymouth was not only a Peterson product (second pipe) as it appears in Wilczak and Colwell's book (Op. Cit.)

Brand of Paul Morand at Saint Claude (Out of business).

Artisan: Tadeusz Polinski
ut. Krucza 27, 37-700 Przemysl, Poland

Artisan: Otto Pollner Jr (1925- †2004) represents the 3rd generation of a pipe maker dinasty founded by his grand father Karl in 1878. He is the author of important books. His son Otto-Karl has taken up the torch.

Artisan: Alexandre Ponomarchuk (born 1971) started as a full time pipe maker in 2006 after a first life as aeroplane pilot.

Dating: Two numbers with 2 digits each. The first number corresponds to the order the pipe was made in the current year (16 for the above pipe). The second number stands for the year of manufacture (12 = 2012)

This brand appears in the 1979 Tinderbox catalog (US tobacconist). See page 15.

Although this pipe was crafted in Italy, Wilczak & Colwell (op. cit.) and J.M. Lopes (op. cit.) both refer to an English origin of this brand: Portland Pipe Co. After closing down of this company Barling produced some of its brands.

Artisan: Vitaliano Posella is the son of Salvatore Posella who was a briar cutter. He started making pipes with his brother-in-law, Tonino Jacono and established on his own when Jacono moved to Jesi.

Address: Via Umberto I, 183.
88067 San Vito sullo Ionio (Calabria)

Brand of an unknown Italian maker.

Poul Hansen was a pupil of Sixten Ivarsson during the the 1960s and 1970s. He started as tool and machine maker for Danish pipe makers but soon decided to carve pipes on his own. He concentrated on American, Japanese and German markets. He founded the Danish Pipe Shop (Strøget, Copenhagen) which he sold to Steffen Nielsen in 1969.

Poul Hansen retired in 1998.

By G.M. Frame