Schulte’s / Max Schulte Smooth Stack 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.

It would seem that Max Schulte could do it all. In the past we’ve had perfectly executed traditional, Anglo-French shapes and wild freehands come through, and here it appears that Schulte was paying homage to the more classically inclined designs of post-war Denmark. Perhaps he too fan was a fan of Pibe-Dan, WO Larsen, and the other Danish greats. With its tall and relatively narrow chamber, this stack should also be a terrific flake pipe.

This pipe is completely unsmoked.

 

Details:

Length: 5.6″ / 142.2mm

Bowl Width: 0.71 / 18.03mm

Bowl Depth: 1.85″ / 46.99mm

Weight: 1.4oz / 42g