Some interesting history of French Pipemaking on this restoration. Great detective work Dal and Beth ! Thank you for this.
It doesn’t surprise me that this unique, petite French Billiard came to me in a lot of pipes I purchased from a seller in Paris. The French Lot of 50 was on the French eBay auction block in August of 2018 when my wife and I were still living in Sofia, Bulgaria. A pipe man friend of mine living in Romania emailed me about this lot as well as about 4 others that the same Parisian seller had on the block. He chose one and I chose another to bid on. If I would have known how many treasures I would have found then, I would have bid on other lots as well. One of the things that got my attention were all the horn stems I could see in the seller’s pictures. There were other unique shapes that I could see as well. The picture below shows the Lot…
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