Colossus Pipe Factory

There is not much known about the Colossus Pipe Factory. By the mid 1890's it was owned by Kaufman Brothers & Bondy. Bill Feuerbach has an old invoice from KB&B dated 1898 that has "CPF" in the upper corner, with Trademark underneath, So they owned the brand by then. It could have been a company that was acquired by KB&B or possibly even founded by them.

Bill is a VP at SM Frank & Company (Kaywoodie) and has also provided the evidence to the name Colossus below.

I have always been under the impression that the intials C.P.F. stood for Consolidated Pipe Factory. Many pipe collectors that I know believe the same thing. However only this week I had that cleared up. A pipe collector freind in Seattle emailed a scan of a page from a trade magazine called "The Jeweler's Circular", dated August 23, 1899. A reader wrote in the following question, "Please inform as who manufactures briar pipes with the trademark, CPF?" The answer was, "These letters stand for Colossus Pipe Factory, the business being conducted by Kaufmann Bros. & Bondy, 129 Grand Street, New York."

I have seen pipes with both the CPF logo and KB&B logo on them that date to pre-1900. This may have been a way to let the public now that the companies were affiliated. As far as I can tell, the CPF brand was discontinued sometime in the 1910-1920 range.