Ivarsson's Legendary Influence

 

(Smokingpipes.com) You have probably never heard of Bjørn Hoffmann, and there are a number of reasons this could be. Personally, I was entirely unaware of the pipemaker until Sykes turned up at the office with a plastic bag full of letters and sketches. In his recent blog, Sykes explained that these documents once belonged to the great Sixten Ivarsson but had long been sitting, unread for ages, in his granddaughter's attic. Since they arrived here in South Carolina, it's been my pleasure to scan these frail, faded pieces of paper, to record their dates if there were any, and to organize them into a kind of catalog. It's exciting to see the transformation; papers, perishable and seeming close the end of their days, immortalized in crisp, digital copies. Continued