A New Stem and a Good Waxing for a Capped Meerschaum Author

(DadsPipes) The range and diversity of meerschaum pipes never fails to impress me. From traditional shapes to intricately carved designs and figurals, there is a meerschaum pipe to meet any taste. The pipe on the worktable today is a traditional smooth Author with a bit of Teutonic flare in the shape of a crowned nickel wind cap. It came to me with a cheap, ill-fitting plastic stem better suited to a corncob pipe that melted when I attempted to polish it on the buffer. I quickly tossed it in the bin, which left me with a stummel in good but dirty condition. Continued

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The History of Meerschaum Pipes

 

(Jeffery Sitts) … Meerschaum, or sepiolite as it's known by its mineral name, or Mg4Si6O15(OH)2·6H2O for those who prefer complex chemical formulas, is a soft white clay mineral renowned for its flavor-neutral smoking properties, light weight, moisture absorbency, and high heat-resistance.
Though its exact geologic origin remains unknown, one popular — though unfounded — theory suggests that meerschaum may be the product of the shells and bones of small prehistoric sea creatures, combined and compressed over millions of years. Continued

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New Mexican Meerschaum Mine?

 

(Pipes Magazine) … Let’s go back in time over a hundred years ago to 1907.  Turkey, like today, controlled the worlds purest and best meerschaum which was used for pipes, and as a natural insulator for heat, cold, and electricity.
We stumble across a hard to reach mine in the mountains near Silver City and Pinos Altos in South Western New Mexico. As an aside, 1907 was before we had automobiles everywhere -  this was train country and the horse still reigned supreme when it came to local transportation.  Not too far from the mine, only 26 years earlier, Billy, the Kid was shot dead. Continued

Meerschaum pipe smoking: Q & A (Ask anything!)

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The eternal city on two continents: Istanbul, part 1

(Dutch Pipe Smoker) … In the train on the way to Schiphol Airport I closed my eyes and imagined I was on the once famous Orient Express. Which got me slightly annoyed because the evening before I had turned my tobacco closet upside down in order to find a tin of Cornell & Diehl Star of the East Flake (with beautiful artwork of the Orient Express with mosques on the background) I thought I had to take with me. Sadly I could not locate it so instead I went for a tin of Sutliff Bosphorus Cruise. Continued

"Black velvet" from Torben Dansk in a meerschaum