Old German Clay Pipe #1 - a Traditional Clay Tobacco Pipe

Product type: Clay tobacco pipe

Material: White Clay

Variation: Blackened clay (an extra step after the white clay has been fired)

Country of Origin: Germany

Manufacturing: Pressed clay

Bowl capacity: Medium

Finish: All white, or all black

Style: Smooth clay pipe with no design on the bowl. It does have a faint Germany written on one side of the stem and has a raised lip at the mouth end.

Historical inspiration: 18th century Europe and North America.

Overall length: 5 inches

Bowl height: 1.5 inches 

Inside bowl diameter: Oval 1.75 to 1.875”

Bowl Depth: 1.25”

This pipe represents the old style clay tobacco pipes of the 18th and 19th centuries. A smooth, undecorated surface that is available in both white and black finish. This period clay pipe will work equally well for historical reenactments and as your every day tobacco pipe. Clay pipes are perfect for testing new blends of tobacco since the flavor comes through without the influence of other tobacco smoked in the same pipe - no ghosting.

About the pipe maker

Markus Fohr is a pipe maker who lives in Montabaur, Germany, about 70 miles from Frankfurt, Cologne and Düsseldorf in the region of Westerwald. His family has been making clay pipes for generations. He uses the fine white clay of the region which has been prized for centuries and is used to create the famous pottery of this region. Some of the molds used are originals going back 240 years.

“I make pipes in the traditional way...” Markus Fohr A note on the Markus Fohr black pipes: These pipes are made with the same white clay as the standard white Markus Fohr pipes, but have been finished in a separate process that smokes the finished pipe using wood chips resulting in a blacked pipe. Heating this pipe on coals or in a stove as a way of cleaning will burn off the residue inside the bowl, but should not affect the black finish of the pipe. We do however, recommend simply letting the pipe air dry. Most M. Fohr pipes will accept a pipe cleaner, but great care must be taken to avoid breaking the stem.