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L&H Stern advertised pipes at prices starting from $1 and topping pit at $25. One Advertisement said: ''"Remember, any LHS is the best pipe in it's class".''
L&H Stern advertised pipes at prices starting from $1 and topping pit at $25. One Advertisement said: ''"Remember, any LHS is the best pipe in its class".''
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File:LHS FilterKingBoard Dave5.jpg|A display board of Entry level Filter Kings selling for $1
File:LHS FilterKingBoard Dave5.jpg|A display board of Entry level Filter Kings selling for $1
File:LHS SpecialMakeAd Dave6.jpg|Ad for the Highest grade "Special Make", at $25
File:LHS SpecialMakeAd Dave6.jpg|Ad for the Highest grade "Special Make", at $25

Revision as of 22:07, 4 June 2016

It seems there is pretty good evidence that Stern made pre war pipes for BBB. We hope to flush that out here as more information becomes available. Please feel free to add any information you have here, or send it to sethile.pipes@gmail.com. Perhaps we can eventually add the result into the main article... --sethile (talk) 09:37, 3 June 2016 (EDT)


The following information and photos are from Dave Gossett, who has an extensive collection of L&H Stern pipes and related tobacciana, and has done extensive research. This will eventually be added into the main article while reconciling any conflicting or redundant information:

Early L&H Sterm Sign, courtesy Dave Gossett
Building on Pearl and Waters street in Brooklyn, courtesy Dave Gossett

Ludwig Stern, a successful pipe manufacturer since 1893 and closing around 1960, reorganized his company along with his brother Hugo Stern, opening a factory in 1911. They named the company L&H Stern Smoking Pipes & Holders. The newly formed company was moved into a six story building on the corner of Pearl and Waters street Brooklyn, NY.

Notes from Geyer's Stationer:
Thoroughly organized in all departments, and housed in a well-lighted and ventilated modern office and manufacturing building, the firm of L&H Stern Inc. is located near the first arch of the Manhattan bridge, near the river and convenient to the Brooklyn bridge, which makes it accessible from all the hotels in the metropolis for visiting buyers. The structure is six stories with a seventeen-foot basement, with light on three sides through prismatic glass windows, the first floor being seven feet above the sidewalk. Light enters the upper floors from all four sides.

L&H Stern is known to every important wholesaler and jobber in the country. LHS manufactures a complete line of briar pipes. Ginmetto wood pipes are also made, as well as Redmanol goods, the man-made amber. The first substitute for amber. Everything, even down to the sterling silver and other metal trimmings are made under one roof.



L&H Stern advertised pipes at prices starting from $1 and topping pit at $25. One Advertisement said: "Remember, any LHS is the best pipe in its class".


The brand had 8 pipe grades listed in the 1944 issue of Outdoor Magazine.

  • Star Crest Ultrafine $ 10
  • Star Crest 14K $ 7.50
  • Star Crest Sterling $ 5
  • Certified Purex $3.50
  • Select Grain $2.50
  • Sivercrest $ 2
  • Superfine Purex $1.50
  • Sculpted Purex $1.50

Additional notes:

Some models were made before, during, and after WWII.

Pre-war pipes were stamped Real Briar Root, or Briar Root. Some war time pipes were made from domestic briar, or "American" briar and were void of any briar stampings. Many American pipe makers lost their over seas supply of Mediterranean briar shortly before and during the war. Post war pipes were stamped Imported Briar to assure customers that they were buying premium briar once again.



Sources

  • Tobacco: An illustrated weekly journal
  • Geyer's Stations
  • The Rotarian