Articles by Ben Rapaport

• New! Tobacciana Exposed: Carnal Collectibles, March 2023. Some may find this article disturbing or offensive. Reader discretion is advised.
• New! Pipe and tobacco experts: Are there any?, February 2023
• New! Eye Candy for the Tobacco Pipe Connoisseur. 19th–century meerschaum pipes in word-pictures, January 2023
• How Did the Pipe Get Its Name? An Etymological Investigation, November 2022
• Hydrostone and Resin Pipes. A Personal History, October 2022
• The Globalization of Tobacco Pipe Literature, October 2022
• Better than Briar? What History Tells!, August 2022
• The CPCC Doctor and Master of Pipes Awards: They’re Not Forever Programs, August 2022
• Romancing the Stone: Memorable Musings About Meerschaum, June 2022
• A Pipe Parable in Chapter and Verse, June 2022
• The Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851: The First Pipe Show!, May 2022
• L’Abbondanza! Today’s Bustling Briar Biz (Briar Market Today), May 2022
• Satirical Sketches of Pipe Smokers, April 2022
• The Wizards of Oddities, Yesterday and Today, April 2022
• Pipe Gifts to Our Presidents, March 2022
• A Conversation Piece: "The Most Expensive Pipe", October 2021
• Lost in Translation: The Linguistic Hodgepodge of Mg4Si6O15(OH)2·6H2O, August 2012
• Extraordinary Ephemera: Catalogs as a glimpse into a bygone smoking era, Winter 2016
• Reflections on the Trade: Random Pipe and Tobacco Facts and Factoids of Yesterday
• Remembering Richard Dunhill, Originally Published in Pipes & Tobaccos magazine 2016. This version is unedited.
• In Pipestone. A puzzling pipe of improvisational ingenuity
• The Odyssey of the Oom Paul: A Hungarian ... Really?
• PDF The Odyssey of the Oom Paul: A Hungarian ... Really?
• PDF Pipemaking 101. A Bilingual Syllabus
• PDF Pipe Bombs: good intentions, bad designs! (Spring 2019)
• PDF My Manifesto: A Plea for Plain Talk
• PDF Collectible Pipe-related Ephemera: Here Today, Not Necessarily Gone Tomorrow!.
• PDF The Tobacco Pipe—Opium Pipe Nexus: Where there’s smoke, there are accessories!
• PDF The Antique Tobacco Pipe, Invention-Function-Art (Originally Published in the Journal of Antiques and Collectibles, February 2019)
• PDF A Few Good Men, an article for Pipes and Tobacco Magazine (November, 2003), available by permission. Bragge is a major focus. A related article appears in Pipes & Tobaccos magazine, Vol. 20, No. 1, Spring 2015 "Writers’ Blocks. A survey of pipe and tobacco literature through time."
• PDF An Historical Review of Reviews: Chronicling A Century of Magazines for the PipeSmoking Maven: Chronicling A Century of Magazines for the Pipe-Smoking Maven, by Ben Rapaport
• PDF Museums With Interest In Tobacco, Compiled by Ben Rapaport (Winter 2018-2019)

We are currently working on bringing these to Pipedia from the Wayback Machine's archived version of P&T Magazine's website, which is sadly now defunct:

• To Patent or Not to Patent?
• The Great Divide: You Are What You Collect
• Where’s The Real Pipe Action? I Say It’s At The Auction Block!
• Perceptions of Pipe Smokers: Hypothesis or Hyperbole?
• The Write Stuff