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 The following are excerpts from David Wright's forthcoming book on pipe-makers around the world. Mr. Wright is the past curator of the Museum of Tobacco Art and History in Nashville, Tennessee:
-"Alfred Baier's carving style is very different.  He specializes in figural briar pipes and highly stylized freehand pipes unlike any other pipes on the market. His figural pipes are reminders of the early St. Claude briar pipes in the 19th century and meerschaum pipes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of his figural pipes are carvings of heads including President Lincoln, Sherlock Holmes, a golfer, a bulldog, a wolf and a lion. He also carves figurals in a style that is more story oriented such as a image of a mermaid, a beaver chewing on a stick or a squirrel leaping from a tree. This style closely emulates many of the meerschaum carving styles of the 19th century.
+"Alfred Baier's carving style is very different.  He specializes in figural briar pipes and highly stylized freehand pipes unlike any other pipes on the market. His figural pipes are reminders of the early [[Saint-Claude]] briar pipes in the 19th century and meerschaum pipes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of his figural pipes are carvings of heads including President Lincoln, Sherlock Holmes, a golfer, a bulldog, a wolf and a lion. He also carves figurals in a style that is more story oriented such as a image of a mermaid, a beaver chewing on a stick or a squirrel leaping from a tree. This style closely emulates many of the meerschaum carving styles of the 19th century.
 Baier uses on some of his freehands a technique similar to openwork. He carves channels and openings in the briar giving the overall shape of the pipe an appearance of tiny land bridges or footpaths of beautifully exposed briar. He uses this technique to connect the top of the bowl to the end of the shank where the stem is joined or around the front of the bowl to the foot. Whenever possible, he leaves the very attractive, original rough outer surface of the briar intact on the bowl's top and bridgework. This gives the 'bridgework' a natural appearance and feel of a real footpath through the woods.