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Written by '''Jan Andersson''' (May 1999) | Written by '''Jan Andersson''' (May 1999) | ||
“No one could form a classical shape like him.” | “No one could form a classical shape like him.” | ||
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But this story is about Björn Bengtsson, so let us start from the very beginning. | But this story is about Björn Bengtsson, so let us start from the very beginning. | ||
'''THE FIRST TRIP TO DENMARK''' | '''THE FIRST TRIP TO DENMARK''' | ||
[[Image:Björn Bengtsson Pipe01.jpg|right|thumb]] | [[Image:Björn Bengtsson Pipe01.jpg|right|thumb]][[Image:Björn_Bengtsson.jpg|thumb|left|Björn Bengtsson]] | ||
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. | 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. | ||
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'''THE SECOND TRIP TO DENMARK''' | '''THE SECOND TRIP TO DENMARK''' | ||
In October 1967 [[Poul Rasmussen]] died and his widow, [[Anne Julie]], was left alone with a tobacconist´s shop and a fully equipped workshop for pipe-making. She was able to take care of the shop, but what to do with the workshop? She decided to ask some of the pipe-makers that had been trained by her husband to start working for her. One of them was Björn Bengtsson. So Björn went back to Denmark and started making pipes together with [[Teddy Knudsen]] and Anne Julie´s brother. The three young men got along very well and Björn looks back at those years as a very happy period of his life. He stayed there until 1974 when he once again went back home to Sweden, this time together with a Danish girl who had become his wife. | [[Image:Björn Bengtsson Pipe02.jpg|left|thumb]]In October 1967 [[Poul Rasmussen]] died and his widow, [[Anne Julie]], was left alone with a tobacconist´s shop and a fully equipped workshop for pipe-making. She was able to take care of the shop, but what to do with the workshop? She decided to ask some of the pipe-makers that had been trained by her husband to start working for her. One of them was Björn Bengtsson. So Björn went back to Denmark and started making pipes together with [[Teddy Knudsen]] and Anne Julie´s brother. The three young men got along very well and Björn looks back at those years as a very happy period of his life. He stayed there until 1974 when he once again went back home to Sweden, this time together with a Danish girl who had become his wife. | ||
'''ANNE JULIE''' | '''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. | 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. | ||