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them allowing them to dry out between
uses, the low price of the sturdy Corn
Cob pipes makes it possible to purchase
two pipes along with pipe tobacco, pipe
cleaners and a pipe lighter and stay
within an entry-level budget. At Missouri
Meerschaum Company, our mission has
been and will always be to make great
smoking pipes that anyone can afford.
In addition to our commitment to
affordable prices, we have also adopted a
plan to re-engage both the new and the
experienced pipe smoker by introducing
new pipe designs or by bringing back a
design that had previously been made
sometime in our 146-year history.
For example, in the last two years we
brought back a pipe with a Dublin-
style bowl that we last made about 40
years ago, calling it the Mark Twain,
and introduced a new series of mini-
churchwarden pipes called the Cobbit
Collection.
At Missouri Meerschaum Company,
by engaging, educating and re-engaging,
we intend to focus on the new, young
segment of pipe smokers so that years
from now we can still say, “Now is a
great time to be in the pipe-smoking
business!”
TBI
With so many young people taking up the hobby
of pipe smoking, the humble, yet venerable, Corn
Cob pipe offers an inexpensive option that you
can offer to those new to the hobby. — Phil Morgan, General Manager, Missouri Meerschaum Company