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Large old Bertram
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<blockquote data-quote="docrof62" data-source="post: 360029" data-attributes="member: 3480"><p>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 many famous customers in DC as well as internationally, (Even Joe Stalin).</p><p>Until the sixties , they made many of their own pipes in a factory upstairs. There is a article in a 1950 Popular Mechanics, as well as many other historical references on line. Later they had some well known pipe manufacturers make pipes for them and yes one of them was Weber. As the business changed, most of the well known pipe shops in the big cities started doing this. What we are all looking for is (as shown) real Bertram manufactured pipes. They had thier own system of grading briar from 20 to 80 (occasionally higher; I have seen 120, very rare). The most expensive were $10-20 in the early sixties.</p><p>Somewhere on line is a copy of a 1960-61 Bertram Catalog you would enjoy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="docrof62, post: 360029, member: 3480"] 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 many famous customers in DC as well as internationally, (Even Joe Stalin). Until the sixties , they made many of their own pipes in a factory upstairs. There is a article in a 1950 Popular Mechanics, as well as many other historical references on line. Later they had some well known pipe manufacturers make pipes for them and yes one of them was Weber. As the business changed, most of the well known pipe shops in the big cities started doing this. What we are all looking for is (as shown) real Bertram manufactured pipes. They had thier own system of grading briar from 20 to 80 (occasionally higher; I have seen 120, very rare). The most expensive were $10-20 in the early sixties. Somewhere on line is a copy of a 1960-61 Bertram Catalog you would enjoy. [/QUOTE]
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