Vintage online

28 May 2023

The range of vintage pipes in the sales department also reached the webshop this week. Our webshop, which can be found at the top right of the Homepage, is mainly important for the sale of books and the popular double-walled ceramic pipes. But there is also a limited selection of briar pipes to promote the well-known brands. We now also offer vintage pipes for the real enthusiast: used pipes with special shapes, which are attractive to certain customers also – or sometimes precisely – because they have already been broken in. The vintage pipe is now a separate section in the webshop. Look at www.pipemuseum.nl or directly at pipeshop.nl.

Acquisition from dark Africa

20 May 2023

Recently we were able to take over some remarkable African tobacco pipes from a long-standing collection in Utrecht. The depicted creation is the most highly decorated of these acquisitions. With its convex shape referring to the gourd and its two figures, the back of which functions as a stem to draw the smoke, this is a fancy design full of fantasy. The maker comes from the Luba people from the Kasai province in Congo-Kinshasa, to be precise the sub-tribe Luba-Hemba. This can be seen in tribal characteristics such as the facial features and headgear. As an oddity, it is typically an article that did better on the souvenir market than among the local smokers. Yet this pipe was a temporary object that was soon exchanged for new creations. Not only because of the complicated design, but especially because of the laborious production method, the production has remained limited. Thanks to these ever-innovative designs, tradition gradually changes and the chain of remarkable creations continues to grow.

Student smokers club La Pipe

12 May 2023

Earlier we got a visit from the student fraternity La Pipe, affiliated with the higher hotel school in The Hague. Today another delegation from this student smokers club came by. The young members were somewhat elated, with wig and moustache. Their mission was to offer a certificate with which they want to convey that young pipe smokers also feel connected to our museum. A kind gesture that we gladly accepted. We are curious how this group of young pipe smokers will hold up in the coming years.