Corn
cob pipes
Meerschaum pipes
Morta (Bog wood)
Miscellaneous
woods
Denovic
Davorin
▲ (Underside)
― Glagolitic "D" ―
Artisan: Davorin Denovic signs his pipes with a "D" - a Dobro (Добро) - stamped in Glagoljica. He uses the croatian square variant of this old slavic alphabet.
Glagolitic "D"
Hennen
Hermann
▲ (Underside)
― [Snake symbol]―
The only markings on its pipes are a snake like logo.
Artisan: Joseph Prammer (born 1953) begun to carve pipe in 1993 and soon became a Bog-Oak specialist.
Production (2007): ~200 pipes/year
Grading (ascending): C, D, E, EE
Sébilo
Patrice
▲ (Right side of the bowl)
― S [3 dots]―
Artisan: Patrice Sébilo stopped his pipe-maker activities when he sold in 2002 his workshop at Herbignac to Trever Talbert.
The petrified oak used by Sébilo (and Talbert) came from the Brière marshes (Brittany FR). This wood has been radiocarbon dated: 1497 to 1171 BC. Dentochronologic dating tests on a sample led to a 1342 BC date (1).
(1) VISSET GIRARDCLOS LAMBERT In Quaternaire 1994, vol. 5, no2, pp. 69-77
"The more the grain is tight, the more it is hard, the more it is fire-resistant" (the carver). One to four dots on Sébilo's bowls indicate the hardness grade of the morta.
The pipe-maker's advices:
- 1 & 2 dots. The pipe may be smoked twice or 3 times in a day.
- 3 & 4 dots. A pipe each smoker can use as he/she pleases.
Talbert
Trever
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▲ (Underside)
Talbert, S 3
Faite en Bretagne
The bog oak used by Talbert came from the Brière marshes (Brittany FR). This wood has been radiocarbon dated: 1497 to 1171 BC. Dentochronologic dating tests on a sample led to a 1342 BC date (1).
(1) VISSET GIRARDCLOS LAMBERT In Quaternaire 1994, vol. 5, no2, pp. 69-77