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'''F. J. Kaldenberg Company, by [ | '''F. J. Kaldenberg Company, by [https://www.racineandlaramie.com/ Racine & Laramie Tobacconist], May, 2018''' | ||
[[File:Kaldenberg-1868CatalogCover.jpg|thumb|400px|1868 Catalog Cover, courtesy S. Paul Jung Jr.]]Frederik William Kaldenberg, F. W. Kaldenberg, a German by birth came to the United States as a child.<ref>Rapaport, Benjamin, A complete guide to collecting Antique Pipes, 1979, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Exton PA, p.83</ref> He was a mechanician, an all around artisan and general workman of the kind that we do not meet with today. In 1853 he started a business working amber, ivory and mother of pearl. He began making meerschaum pipes in 1855, claiming to be the first in the USA. At that period it was almost impossible to obtain raw meerschaum in this country. He was approached by an Armenian, one Bedrossian, who had brought two cases of raw meerschaum into this country from Asia Minor. It was just as difficult for the Turk to find a purchaser for his material as it was for the artisan to find the material to make the pipes. Consequently the meeting of these two was a happy one that forged the missing link. It was not long before these two cases of meerschaum were turned into pipes of special shape and design, which brought the literati, the artistic, and the mercantile nabobs of the great City of New York, to the workshop of the artisan who had wrought the first meerschaum pipes in the United States.<ref>Fritz Morris, “The Making of Meerschaums,” Technical World, April 1908, 194-195.</ref> | [[File:Kaldenberg-1868CatalogCover.jpg|thumb|400px|1868 Catalog Cover, courtesy S. Paul Jung Jr.]] | ||
Frederik William Kaldenberg, F. W. Kaldenberg, a German by birth came to the United States as a child.<ref>Rapaport, Benjamin, A complete guide to collecting Antique Pipes, 1979, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., Exton PA, p.83</ref> He was a mechanician, an all around artisan and general workman of the kind that we do not meet with today. In 1853 he started a business working amber, ivory and mother of pearl. He began making meerschaum pipes in 1855, claiming to be the first in the USA. At that period it was almost impossible to obtain raw meerschaum in this country. He was approached by an Armenian, one Bedrossian, who had brought two cases of raw meerschaum into this country from Asia Minor. It was just as difficult for the Turk to find a purchaser for his material as it was for the artisan to find the material to make the pipes. Consequently the meeting of these two was a happy one that forged the missing link. It was not long before these two cases of meerschaum were turned into pipes of special shape and design, which brought the literati, the artistic, and the mercantile nabobs of the great City of New York, to the workshop of the artisan who had wrought the first meerschaum pipes in the United States.<ref>Fritz Morris, “The Making of Meerschaums,” Technical World, April 1908, 194-195.</ref> | |||
Kaldenberg’s first exhibition of his meerschaum pipes in 1865 was at the The American Institute of the City of New York for the Encouragement of Science and Invention.<ref>Collecting Antique Meerschaum Pipes, Rapaport Ben, Schiffer Publishing, 1999, p.43.</ref> Kaldenberg became news worthy when he sent 30 pipes specially designed to the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1867. He competed with more than 90 other manufacturers from London, Munich, Paris, Dresden, Ruhla, and Vienna. For his Macbeth and the three witches pipe Kaldenberg was awarded the bronze medal (gold being reserved for inventions) for “best meerschaum goods” becoming the first American pipe company to be honored by a foreign country. The Officials of the Exposition before granting the medal required Kalenberg to sign affidavits that the pipes were made entirely in the United States.<ref>Cope’s Tobacco Plant, No.63, Vol.1, June 1875, 755.</ref> A Paris gentleman offered to purchase the Macbeth pipe for 10,000 francs, and the offer was rejected.<ref>Rapaport, Supra, p. 43. 5</ref> | Kaldenberg’s first exhibition of his meerschaum pipes in 1865 was at the The American Institute of the City of New York for the Encouragement of Science and Invention.<ref>Collecting Antique Meerschaum Pipes, Rapaport Ben, Schiffer Publishing, 1999, p.43.</ref> Kaldenberg became news worthy when he sent 30 pipes specially designed to the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1867. He competed with more than 90 other manufacturers from London, Munich, Paris, Dresden, Ruhla, and Vienna. For his Macbeth and the three witches pipe Kaldenberg was awarded the bronze medal (gold being reserved for inventions) for “best meerschaum goods” becoming the first American pipe company to be honored by a foreign country. The Officials of the Exposition before granting the medal required Kalenberg to sign affidavits that the pipes were made entirely in the United States.<ref>Cope’s Tobacco Plant, No.63, Vol.1, June 1875, 755.</ref> A Paris gentleman offered to purchase the Macbeth pipe for 10,000 francs, and the offer was rejected.<ref>Rapaport, Supra, p. 43. 5</ref> | ||