Mission Briar

From Pipedia
Revision as of 10:42, 19 December 2022 by Magna (talk | contribs)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Mission Briar was a brand created during WW II, which disappeared soon afterwards. In 1941, due to the difficulty of importing brair, Kaufmann Bros. & Bondy, through Kaywoodie, and the Reiss-Premier Co., started making pipes out of Manzanita burls, known as "mission briar".
The Pacific Briarwood Company, a Kaufmann Bros. & Bondy subsidiary, owned plantations of the bush in the Santa Cruz mountains in California. As the quality of the wood was not as good as briar, the project was abandoned soon after the war.
[1]

Monterey pipes were made using Mission Briar by Kaywoodie.

References

  1. From Pipes, Artisans and Trademarks, by José Manuel Lopes