Pipe Tobaccos

Fred J. Hanna's essay comparing pipe tobacco tasting to the method of wine tasting; grouping the variables that determine taste under the headings of tobacco, pipe, and smoker.

The circulation of pipe and tobacco books across languages: nearly a century of translation traffic, multilingual classics, bilingual museum and workshop books, and the uneven direction this traffic takes.

An entry examining how pipe packing and smoking techniques came to form a shared vocabulary, whose names became attached to known methods, and the influence of competitive smoking on this body of knowledge.

How pipe and tobacco literature, which found a place in major publishers' catalogs in the mid-twentieth century, turned over the last fifty years into books printed at the author's own expense, and what this means for readers and researchers.

The history of an accessory family running from pocket horn boxes to the Delft jars on the tobacconist's shelf, from Bohemia's figural vessels to mass-produced pocket tins. Objects that have today lost their function and passed into the realm of collecting.

New York's jewelry and silver house Tiffany & Company sold, for many years, cases, lighters, amber mouthpieces, and even a handful of pipes under the heading of what it called "fancy goods." Trademark records and collection catalogs make it possible to trace this small line.