Ben Rapaport

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Ben Rapaport, courtesy PipesMagazine.com

For the past 50 years, Ben Rapaport has been known internationally as an avid pipe smoker, antique pipe collector, and tobacco bibliophile. He was inducted into the International Academy of the Pipe in 1985, into the Confrérie des maîtres-pipiers de Saint-Claude, France, in 1989, and was the recipient of the prestigious “Doctor of Pipes” achievement award from the Chicagoland Pipe Collectors Club in 2004.

He is the author of:

  • A Tobacco Source Book (1972)
  • A Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes (1979, 1998)
  • The Global Guide to Tobacco Literature (1989)
  • Museum of Tobacco Art & History Guide Book (1996)
  • Collecting Antique Meerschaums: Miniature to Majestic Sculpture, 1850-1925 (1999)
  • The Arts of an Addiction. Qing Dynasty Opium Pipes and Accessories (2005)
  • The European Porcelain Tobacco Pipe (2014)
  • Tobacco and Smoking Among The Blue and Gray (2014)
  • An Intimate History of The Tobacco Industry, 1850-1920. From The Briar Pipe of Saint-Claude to The Cigarette in The Trenches of World War One (2021)
  • A Tribute to “The Man In The Window” At Ehrlich’s, Boston, Massachusetts. Gustav Fischer Sr., Master Pipe Maker. His Life, His Work, His Legacy (2022)


THE WIDE, WONDROUS WORLD OF WOOD TOBACCO PIPES

TWO HUNDRED YEARS OF CRAFTSMANSHIP AND CREATIVITY.

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He is a popular lecturer at pipe clubs, his articles on pipe and tobacco history appeared regularly in Pipes & Tobaccos magazine until Spring 2019, when it ceased publication, and his articles occasionally appeared in CIGAR magazine until Spring 2011 when it ceased to be published. Achievements and affiliations include: member, Pipe Smoker’s Hall of Fame (1973); Consultant, Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, University of Alabama (2001). As a certified personal property appraiser, Ben has conducted formal valuations of pipe collections for several museums and for private collectors.

Ben Rapaport has created what is likely the most comprehensive list of tobacco related books and publications in English. It is organized by topic, although many entries cover a range of tobacco related topics. He started this list in 1987, and has been updating it as new works come to his attention. The current list is from the Fall of 2022, available here in PDF format: A Bibliography for the Pipe Smoker and Pipe Collector (Ben Rapaport, Fall 2022, Rev. 5).

Articles

The following articles are available here on pipedia.org:

We are currently working on bringing these to Pipedia from the Wayback Machine's archived version of P&T Magazine's website, which is sadly now defunct:

This is just a small sampling of Ben's many publications. His complete bibliography is available here: Publications of Ben Rapaport. We hope to add many more of Ben's articles here on Pipedia as time allows.

Off site links

Contact Information

E-mail: ben70gray@gmail.com