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Hello fellas,

Cleaning up the family house and found what looks to be a cigar holder....? can anybody decipfer the wording on the case for me?
Thanks, Hooksey.
 

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real natural meerschaum
real amber

The rest of the text is the company name and the company headquarters berlin

„Meerschaum“
Meerschaum pipes originally come from Turkey. In all likelihood they were already in use there in the 17th century after the introduction of tobacco. The north Anatolian city of Eskişehir has been a manufacturing center for this type of pipe since 1700; it has been known in Europe since the 18th century. While unsmoked meerschaum pipes are white, they darken with frequent use. This peculiarity distinguishes them from other pipe models.

Meerschaum pipes are made from the clay mineral sepiolite, which was originally called "Lüle stone" after the Turkish name lületaş. This magnesium silicate, which occurs mainly in the region around Eskişehir and is related to magnesite, was extracted as early as 1173 between the fossil calcareous sediments there, which are stored at depths of up to 250 meters. There are also other deposits of the mineral in Tanzania, but also z. B. in Italy at Baldissero Canavese (Piedmont).

The advantages of meerschaum pipes over pipes made of wood include: in that there is no need to smoke them, that they are initially tasteless and that the material (sepiolite = colloquially "meerschaum") is extremely fire-resistant. So they offer little taste absorption. This means that burning such a pipe is theoretically impossible and it is possible to smoke such a pipe while hot. A disadvantage, however, is that meerschaum absorbs tobacco aromas, which are annoying when smoking various types of tobacco. In addition, meerschaum is a very fragile material.

Thomas aus LAU
 
I smoked a pipe for a while when I was young and stupid (now I'm old and stupid, but not stupid enough to smoke). It was popular amongst the academic types when I was at university. I guess I thought of myself as an aspiring academic and figured a pipe was part of the image. I even had a meerschaum pipe at one stage. I kept up the act for about a year before coming to my senses and chucking the stinking thing away.
 
hooksey said:
Hello fellas,

Cleaning up the family house and found what looks to be a cigar holder....? can anybody decipfer the wording on the case for me?
Thanks, Hooksey.
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Looks like either a pipe mouthpiece or cigar/cigarette holder, which were quite popular around the 1920's. Guessing the latter, as usally pipe bodies(bowls?) only were made of meerschaum because of its fire-resistant properties. With this thing, you could burn the fag down to nothing...

piet
 
Meer : sea
Schaum: froth

Ecume de mer in French.
I smoked a pipe for decades and had a nice Meerschaum. I like the way the material goes yellow from the tar it absorbs.

Paul
 
Laverdalothar said:
and now - keeping in mind that only a few % of the tar remains on the material - think of what your loungth look like when smoking regularly... :oops:
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You don't inhale pipe smoke. Normally.
Otherwise, I spent a lot of my life looking in peoples bodies. Seen all sorts of things including tar.

Paul
 

M.N. Nasch GmbH, Berlin, Germany​

sold it

  • M. H. Nasch​

    Geschenkartikel (Haushaltswaren)
    Gegründet 1937 , Liq.: 1941
    Behrenstrasse 51/52 (Mitte)

  • M. N. Nasch GmbH​

    Geschenkartikel (Haushaltswaren)
    Gegründet 1903
    Passage 37/41 (Mitte).
This is for Cigarettes. This is an old Pipe
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Yours is, maybe, the Head of an old Pipe.

Maybe the Same..
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Alte kleine Meerschaumpfeife Pfeife Bernstein Mundstück Etui | eBay

<body><p>Biete eine Pfeife. </p><br /><br /><br /><p>- Fundzustand </p><br /><br /><p>Details und Zustand bitte den Fotos entnehmen. Offene Fragen bitte vor dem Kauf klären.</p><br /><p>N1</p></body>
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Regards,
Rainer
 
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Dellortoman said:
Hmm ... I wonder if that was a more likely cause of your pharyngeal cancer than alcohol consumption, as you seemed to indicate in another thread.
I suppose it's impossible to pin down a cause for most cancers.
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Tobacco + alcohol = cancer.
Alcohol facilitates the passage of the carcinogenic substances present in tobacco into cells. Mouth, throat, trachea, lungs. Plus the feeding disorders induced by alcohol bring about a general weakening.

Paul
 
rez said:

M.N. Nasch GmbH, Berlin, Germany​

sold it

  • M. H. Nasch​

    Geschenkartikel (Haushaltswaren)
    Gegründet 1937 , Liq.: 1941
    Behrenstrasse 51/52 (Mitte)

  • M. N. Nasch GmbH​

    Geschenkartikel (Haushaltswaren)
    Gegründet 1903
    Passage 37/41 (Mitte).
This is for Cigarettes. This is an old Pipe
View attachment 57779View attachment 57780

Yours is, maybe, the Head of an old Pipe.

Maybe the Same..
www.ebay.de

Alte kleine Meerschaumpfeife Pfeife Bernstein Mundstück Etui | eBay

<body><p>Biete eine Pfeife. </p><br /><br /><br /><p>- Fundzustand </p><br /><br /><p>Details und Zustand bitte den Fotos entnehmen. Offene Fragen bitte vor dem Kauf klären.</p><br /><p>N1</p></body>
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Regards,
Rainer
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Fantastic, that is exactly what i have! I will now have to wait until i become a grandfather to smoke a cigar in it.
Thanks for all the info fellas.
 
Paul Marx said:
Tobacco + alcohol = cancer.
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Well, I'm glad I don't use either of those substances now.

I presume my (skin) cancers were caused by an excess of sunshine in my youth. Being of fair complexion, I used to get sunburnt every summer as a kid. My dad would tell me it was my own fault and that only way I'd learn to avoid sunburn in future was to suffer the consequences of my own actions. As an ex-army man, he told me that any soldier who got sunburnt would be put on report for sustaining a self-inflicted wound. A bit of a tough stance to take with a 6-year old. Although I'm sure if my parents had known about the link between UV radiation and skin cancer, they would have intervened in my "self harming" behaviour and made me wear a shirt and hat. I don't think there was any effective sun protection lotion in the 50's.
 
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