PipesMagazine.com has a great article on corn cob pipes from the Missouri Meerschaum pipe company. In addition to some great information about the formation of this legendary company. In addition, you’ll find a great number of updated images from those found in the Life Magazine article that we talked about last December.

The Corn Cob Pipe is an American icon and known the world over. They have been around for over 100 years and are still popular today.

This is the story of the Corn Cob Pipe with the history of it’s origin, the founding of Missouri Meerschaum, it’s manufacturer, and a step by step photographic guide showing how they are manufactured.

Washington, Missouri has long been known as the Corn Cob Pipe Capital of the World. It was the Missouri Meerschaum Company, still the largest manufacturer of corn cob pipes in the world, that began the tradition for which Washington became famous.

These corn cob pipe bowls are "tumble" varnished in a concrete mixer. Some pipe bowls are spayed with lacquer on spindles that revolve in and out of the spay booth.

Patch is used to fill in spaces around the stem. The corn cob style made famous y General Douglas MacArthur

You can find the full article here.

If you are looking for the best-selling corn cob pipes, you can find the Missouri Meerschaum Country Gentleman Corncob Pipe, Missouri Meerschaum Legend Corncob Pipe or Missouri Meerschaum Mac Corncob Pipe at the Tobacco Barn.

posted on Monday, October 19, 2009 3:52 PM | Filed Under [ Pipes Industry News ]

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