Meerschaum Pipes

About Antique Meerschaum Pipes

Valued for its unique properties and smooth smoke, meerschaum has been a popular material for pipes since its introduction to the west in the mid-1800's. This white mineral, found mostly in Turkey, is loved by pipe smokers for its natural filtration of the tobacco (it absorbs the nicotine and tar). This process triggers meerschaum's other strange property: as it is smoked, the pipe begins to turn reddish brown.

Because it is very soft, meerschaum is easily carved, and has been used to create some very unique and intricate pipes. Skulls, heads, animals, ships... any shape you can imagine has been carved in meerschaum. Meerschaum pipes are typically valued based on their design, and whether or not they're in smokeable condition.


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Cricket & Tobacco: A Match Made on a True Pitch
Spectator.co.uk, February 3rd

Like the two captains, some were pipemen: dapper Bill Edrich puffed on a sleek, stylish and creamy meerschaum; doubtless his tobacco, too,...Read more

785300 and finally, he's out
The Guardian (blog), February 2nd

Some were pipemen: dapper Bill Edrich puffed on a sleek, stylish and creamy meerschaum; doubtless his tobacco, too, was also a singular brand,...Read more

'The Mousetrap'
Ashland Daily Tidings, February 1st

is entertainingly mysterious; and Richard Heller as Major Metcalf, with his meerschaum pipe, is surely the most solid character around...Read more

Paul Coates – Confidential File, Jan. 25, 1960
Los Angeles Times (blog), January 25th

Six ninety-five for a yachting cap, three-fifty for meerschaum pipe that stays lit in a high wind, three-eighty for a pair of sneakers, a dollar and a half...Read more

Sherlock Holmes gets a makeover
Times LIVE, January 22nd

Ritchie rings the changes on the Sherlock Holmes legend, discarding the familiar props, like the deerstalker hat and the Meerschaum pipe,...Read more

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Antiques and the Arts Online, January 21st

Royal Worcester; Limoges; Wedgwood Plates; Transferware; Books; Meerschaum Pipes; Military Buttons and Insignia; 19th C Weaponry: Colt 44 cal...Read more

Practical, but limited
Business Standard, January 15th

the camp approach to Sherlockiana: this is far removed from the cold-eyed, cerebral Holmes of the deerstalker and meerschaum pipe years...Read more

Inglourious Basterds
Syracuse New Times, January 13th

(“My French is inadequate,” Landa explains prior to tugging on a Meerschaum.) The latter's partial joke is twofold, however, since Landa and the farmer...Read more

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