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'''THE FIRST TRIP TO DENMARK'''

Mrs. Bengtsson, Björn´s mother, was the owner of a tobacconist´s shop in Malmö. One thing that troubled Mrs. Bengtsson a lot was all the pipes handed to her to be repaired. No one in Malmö could do the job, so she had to send the pipes to the different makers, which took a lot of time and was costly. But she had a son, Björn, who just had finished school. Could he learn to do the job? Björn was interested but his mother understood that to learn it properly, he needed to be trained by a skilful pipe-maker. She asked [[Sixten Ivarsson]] in Copenhagen, but at this time he had no possibility to take another trainee, so the answer was no. The same question was put to [[Poul Rasmussen]] and with him Mrs. Bengtsson was more successful. But she had to pay 500 SEK for it. This was in 1964 and in those days 500 SEK was not a sum of money to be ignored. However, Mrs. Bengtsson considered it a good investment for the future and accepted. The receipt for those money has been saved by Björn (he has even framed it and put it on the wall in his home) and it with pride he shows it to us.

'''ANNE JULIE'''

A little remark may be in its place here. Did someone find the name [[Anne Julie]] familiar? Yes, that is the female pipe-maker [[Anne Julie]]. But at the time when her husband died she had not started making pipes and probably she had no time for it, alone with small children as she was. Today Anne Julie´s pipes are sold all over the world at high prices.

'''PIPES IN A PERSONAL DESIGN'''

Björn does not make any sandblasted pipes but when necessary he rusticates some of them, but as few as possible. We understand that he does not like to rusticate – if it is the job to do it or the result he does not say. But probably it is the job, because he had one rusticated pipe with him to show us, and it was a real beauty.