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Artebano, aka Franco Maccaferri, Italian pipe maker, passed away on July 24th, 2008. If you have any pictures or | '''Artebano, aka Franco Maccaferri''', Italian pipe maker, passed away on July 24th, 2008. | ||
La bottega Artebano (Artebano's workshop) took it's name from the previous proprietor. It was homed in Via Mentana, a short and narrow road in the historic city center of Bologna. | |||
Here Franco Maccaferri made his freehands, which were almost entirely bought by pipesters from Bologna and it's surroundings. Outside, in the rest of Italy, Artebano Pipes remained hardly known - a local insider tip. The workshop was a regular meeting place for a circle of pipe smokers on every Saturday afternoon gathering there to chat and to discuss on pipes and tobaccos. | |||
Franco Maccaferri closed his bottega around the turn of 2005/2006 for health reasons (afak). | |||
If you have any pictures or more information about his pipes, please contribute them here, or send them to us. | |||
Molte grazie, Scott (--[[User:Sethile|sethile]] 13:22, 1 August 2008 (CDT)) |