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Bertram pipe shop is long gone. After the third Mr. Bertram passed away in the sixties, his wife ran it for several years and then sold it' After the MLK riots in DC, the neighborhood got tawdry and the new owner gave up. In the heyday(before and after WW2) they made pipes upstairs and had...

I found this site and immediately signed on. I am an old pipe smoker who gave it up in the 80s and just in the last year have happily come back to smoking my old pipes. Immensely enjoyable. I have recently started acquiring old pipes from places, people and makers that are fondly memorable in my...