Max Schulte / Schulte’s Smooth Apple Estate Briar Pipe, American Estates

Description

Schulte’s was an American pipe tobacconist, located in New Jersey in the second half of the 20th century. Like many pipe stores, Schulte’s sold house brand pipes, but unlike most pipe stores, many of these house brand pipes were made by the store’s owner, Max Schulte. Similarly to a few other American pipe tobacconists, like Boswell’s, Schulte himself would divide his time between sales and both restoring and making pipes, during which time he served as a teacher in the craft to a young Jack H. Weinberger.

This particular Schulte’s, by Max Schulte, is a beautiful, hand made apple Though more classically inclined than many of Max’s freehands, it still has a touch of Danish (or perhaps even German) styling in the bulbous-ness of the bowl and the orientation of the shank. It is also covered in straight grain patterns, which the light stain does well to accentuate.

The condition is great. Some very minor inner rim darkening.

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.80 / 20.32mm

Bowl Depth: 1.68″ / 42.67mm

Weight: 2.3oz / 68g