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[[Image:Kiko_02.jpg|right|thumb|Kiko]] | [[Image:Kiko_02.jpg|right|thumb|Kiko]] | ||
Kiko, meaning "pipe" in Swahili-Kiswahili to English translation, is probably the best known of the various brands listed below | Kiko, meaning "pipe" in Swahili-Kiswahili to English translation, is probably the best known of the various brands listed below . | ||
In East Africa Meerschaum is found in Tanganyika, once known as German East Africa , and since 1964 part of the United Republic of Tanzania. The main deposit comes from the Amboseli basin surrounding the Lake Amboseli. Tanganyika Meerschaum is normally stained in shades of brown, black and yellow, and is considered to be inferior to Meerschaum from Turkey. | |||
Eventhough, the raw material is mined by the Tanganyika Meerschaum Corporation and to a large extent used for pipemaking. Uncounted pipemakers throughout the world were supplied with Amboseli Meerschaum, preferentially used for Meerschaum lined briars or leather-clad pipes. In Tanganyika the Kilimanjaro Pipe Company Ltd. produced (afak): | |||
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[[Image:Kilimanjaro2.jpg|left|thumb|Brand unknown]] | [[Image:Kilimanjaro2.jpg|left|thumb|Brand unknown]] | ||
"' | "'Kilimanjaro"is an old brand from Amboseli Pipes, that belonged to Tanganyika Meerschaum Corporation, created in 1955, in Nairobi (Kenia). This enterprise was founded after the discovery in the Kilimanjaro mountains of a big meerschaum mine. This meerschaum is not so good as Turkish one, because it is more compacted and do not less so well leaving out from the pipe the tar and nicotine. | ||
Soon after it was discovered another mine in the famous Amboseli Game Park. | |||
The enterprise had moved his headquarters to Arusha (Tanzania) and made an association with a Belgian company, but closed some years after. | |||
Some of the brands produced used pressed or compacted meerschaum and not block meerschaum. | |||
[[Image:GBD_75.jpg|right|thumb|GBD " Kibo"]] | [[Image:GBD_75.jpg|right|thumb|GBD " Kibo"]] | ||
The company had also an agreement with"'[[GBD]]"',to make some lines of GBD Block Meerschaums. According to catalog 1976: | |||
* "'Iringa"' - Leather covered, classic shapes. | |||
* "'Iringa"' - | * "'Jenga"' - "Rustic" peeble finish in a yellow tone. | ||
* "'Jenga"' - " | * "'"Kibo"' - High gloss finish in a yellow tone. | ||
* "'"Kibo"' - | |||
* ""Makonde"' | * ""Makonde"' | ||
* "'Nusi"' - | * "'Nusi"' - Black color, hand carved gouge finish. | ||
* ""Tanzania"' - ??? | * ""Tanzania"' - ??? | ||
After closing, the British companies "'[[London Meerschaum ]]"' and "'[[Laxey Pipe Co.]]"' (from the town of Laxey, Isle of Man, UK - Brands : Man Pipes, Manxpipe, Manxman, Manxland e.c.) continued to produce pipes using imported meerschaum from Africa . Laxey Pipe Co. also prepared the meer bowls from the late 1960's - 2001 Peterson, Barling, Comoy's, Noerding and others. Often, just the stems were different, while bowls were the same. | |||
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Image:Manx_03.jpg|Manxpipe | Image:Manx_03.jpg|Manxpipe |
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