Online Vintage Pipe Archive

[Kyle Weiss]

...I like old advertisements and marketing stuff. Not sure why, probably just because it showed what might have appealed to past generations.

This online archive has been a lot of fun for me to comb through...lots of cool images with decent quality scans and pictures:

http://pipepages.com/

Thought some of you may like it as much as I do!

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Awesome. 8) :lol:

 

[Simple Man]

That's a really neat site you found there Kyle. That will give me something fun to look at over the weekend.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

This old pamphlet actually gives pretty good advice, all-in-all!

http://pipepages.com/pm1

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Yeah I've been reading through this site all afternoon... really awesome stuff!

 

[jlong]

Wow, Kyle, great site!

I paged through the 1983 Tinderbox catalog and it has my gourd calabash that I bought at the Tinderbox around that time.

 

[jlong]

One way to double tobacco sales.

 

[Kyle Weiss]

I missed that last one...gosh that's a weird pipe! :lol:

 

[riff raff]

I've been to that site in the past, but before you know it, I just lost 30 minutes of my day..... I love looking at those old documents/flyers.

 

[jlong]

I missed that last one...gosh that's a weird pipe! :lol:

Maybe the theory is by putting different tobaccos in the two bowls, you can meld the taste through the smoke and adjust the taste by putting your finger over one of the bowls.

 

[Zeno Marx]

I think the impetus behind that big Caminetto is art and not function. A flagship you photograph and put in advertisements to display your imagination and lack of convention. It's important to not take things so literally all the time. I make that mistake too often.

 

[jlong]

The Caminetto pipes are the three off to the side. The twin bowl version is the Super Mustache "Maestro". I never took anything litterally. I threw some pun at it with my "theory".

 

[Oystermouth]

What an excellent find - full of real gems.

 

[idbowman]

Love this stuff...I'm a big fan of old school ads and signs of any sort, an anything to do with tobacciana is so incredibly cool.

A local barbershop has all sorts of old "Fearless Fosdick" signage. I remember going there as far back in my childhood as I can (the barber was a good friend of the family)...I'm pretty sure that's when my obsession with old ads/signs/marketing started!



Love this one from the site you found: http://pipepages.com/keen1.htm

 

[danindayton]

WOW!!!! I'm old enought th remember some of this stuff but, I still learned a lot.

Thanks for posting it.

danindayton
ilurkalot

 

[Hermit]

Awesome. 8) :lol:

Cool! If I ever commission a pipe,
I want a magnet built into it. :lol:

 

[Kyle Weiss]

Cool! If I ever commission a pipe,
I want a magnet built into it. :lol:

Would today's version with our plastic, crappy dashboards be Velcro? :lol:

 

[jlong]

Cool! If I ever commission a pipe,
I want a magnet built into it. :lol:

Would today's version with our plastic, crappy dashboards be Velcro? :lol:

Probably. It would also have to pass crash testing and emision testing to get DOT approval.