Marechal Ruchon & Cie.: Difference between revisions

[[File:GBD_MRCLD_detail.jpeg|350px|thumb|left|Detail fo the silver band (with GBD in oval and letters M, R, C, LD in square).]] [[File:GBD_MRCLD_complete.jpeg|350px|thumb|left|Bruyere bowl (with GBD in oval), silver band (with GBD in oval and letters M, R, C, LD in square), horn stem.]] Marechal Ruchon & Cie. was a company owned by Auguste Marechal and Ferdinand Ruchon which owned the [[GBD]] brand from the end of the 19th century until 1902 when they sold Marechal, Ruchon & Cie. to [[Oppenheimer Pipe]], which in turn changed the name of the company to Marechal, Ruchon & Co., Ltd..  Upon the creation of [[Cadogan]], however, the brand was no more, remembered only in the name of the [[GBD]] Marcee pipes made until just after the Second World War.