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Bjarne Nielsen died of a severe heart attack in the night of February, 27th at the age of 66. The pipe community lost one of it's greatest characters who loved and lived pipes. May he rest in peace!
'''Bjarne Nielsen''' died of a severe heart attack in the night of February, 27th at the age of 66. The pipe community lost one of it's greatest characters who loved and lived pipes. May he rest in peace!


Bjarne made very few if any pipes himself; he was a distributor and had several Danish pipemakers work for him like Johs and Ph. Vigen. The cheaper lines were stamped Bjarne while the highest grades were stamped Bjarne Nielsen.


[[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]]
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Image:Bjarne_V1d.jpg|<font size="1">Custom made Volcano, 2003</font>
Image:Bjarne_V1e.jpg|<font size="1">... and a Dunhill Group 5!</font>
Image:Bjarne_G04.jpg|<font size="1">Giant - named "Child's Coffin"</font>
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Bjarne made very few if any pipes himself; he was a distributor and had several Danish pipemakers work for him like [[Johs]] and [[Ph. Vigen]]. The cheaper lines were stamped Bjarne while the highest grades were stamped Bjarne Nielsen.
 
Bjarne was also a 1st class address for lovers of XXL pipes. These were called "Giant".
 
[[Category: Pipe makers by nationality]][[Category: Denmark]]

Revision as of 22:22, 2 October 2008

Sadly enough, this page starts with the end:

Bjarne Nielsen died of a severe heart attack in the night of February, 27th at the age of 66. The pipe community lost one of it's greatest characters who loved and lived pipes. May he rest in peace!


Bjarne made very few if any pipes himself; he was a distributor and had several Danish pipemakers work for him like Johs and Ph. Vigen. The cheaper lines were stamped Bjarne while the highest grades were stamped Bjarne Nielsen.

Bjarne was also a 1st class address for lovers of XXL pipes. These were called "Giant".