John's Pipe Shop

About a year ago I came upon a flea market 25th St in Manhattan. A young man had his table set up and he had a large number of very distinctive looking pipes. I took a look and saw that almost all of then were marked "John's Pipe". The grain was very nice and the carving was very interesting, most being in the free hand realm. These pipes were sizable. The one drawback as I saw it was all of these pipes had pits or mars in the briar. But the styling on these pipes was very interesting.

John's Pipe Shop, established in 1908, was located at two locations in California. The addresses were 6725 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood 28, Calif. and 544 So. Spring St., Los Angles 13, Calif. The can of tobacco I have had these addresses that are before zip codes and the short state designations.