Schulte’s / Max Schulte Smooth Dublin Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

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.

After having a handful of Schulte’s pipes come in via our trade-in program recently, I’ve become a real fan of Max Schulte’s work. We’ve had classically-inclined pieces, like this one, as well as more “freehand” designs, and they’ve all been great. This one is no exception: it is a very traditional saddle Dublin, with the kind of excellent flame grain and bird’s-eye patterns that the great Anglo-French factory makes charge a lot of money for. I’ll let this one go for a more modest sum, but I can’t say I won’t miss it.

The pipe is completely unsmoked, too.

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 152.4mm

Bowl Width: 0.78 / 19.81mm

Bowl Depth: 1.48″ / 37.59mm

Weight: 1.1oz / 34g