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Under several owners, the factory manufactured pipes through the peak of clay pipe manufacturing, around 1919, and until the business was sold at public auction in 1938. The post-1938 owners changed the focus of the company to novelty and souvenir pipes and retail sale of local home industry handmade pipes, but were unable to make a profit.
Eduard Bird (or Edward/Evert Burt; c. 1610 – 20 May 1665) was an English tobacco pipe maker who spent most of his life in Amsterdam. His life has been reconstructed by analysis of public registers, probate records, and notary and police records, by historians such as Don Duco and Margriet De Roever from the 1970s onwards. [1]
In 1856, John Middleton opened a tobacco store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Later, his family added more stores and a mail order business. [1] In 1950, the company began making its own pipe tobacco, and by 1959 sold its stores and concentrated on making and selling tobacco. [2] In 1960, John Middleton Co. moved to King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
The Missouri Meerschaum Company is a tobacco smoking pipe manufacturer located in Washington, Missouri.It is the world's oldest and largest manufacturer of corncob pipes.. The company was founded in 1869 when Dutch-American woodworker Henry Tibbe began producing corncob pipes and selling them in his shop.
Clay pipe dating is the act of dating clay tobacco pipes found at archaeological sites to specific time periods. Pipe bowl found in Kent , southeast England. The circular hole through the tube is slightly off-centre and measures 3.36mm in diameter, and would suggest a rough date of c.1610 AD.
Tobacco companies of the United States ... American Tobacco Company (25 P) B. Brown & Williamson (11 P) L. Liggett Group (1 C, 6 P) Lorillard Tobacco Company (2 C, 13 ...
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Initially "E. Goodwin and Brother", the company was founded before the American Civil War. It was known for its cigarette brands "Gypsy Queen" and "Old Judge". In 1890, the company was merged, along with four others, into James Buchanan Duke 's American Tobacco Company [ 1 ] to create an American monopoly on tobacco product manufacturing and ...