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<center></center><center>''Ben Rapaport''<br> | <center></center><center>''Ben Rapaport''<br> | ||
Originally appeared in '''''Pipes & Tobaccos Magazine''''', '''Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 2013''' | Originally appeared in '''''Pipes & Tobaccos Magazine''''', '''Vol. 18, No. 2, Summer 2013''' | ||
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== INTRODUCTION == | |||
From its inception in the late 1850s, the briar industry’s growth and expansion would be best described as evolutionary, starting with that cottage epicenter, St. Claude—with small- and medium-sized workshops—that evolved in the next hundred years into today’s global market comprised, principally, of industrial-strength manufacturers known by their long-standing company name or their trademark, e.g., “White Dot,” “WDC” in an inverted triangle, or the oval escutcheon “GBD.” By comparison, in the last 50 years, what’s been happening in the trade is considered revolutionary! This sector of the industry consisting of independent, skilled crafts people has been growing exponentially, and it is giving the old establishments a run for their money. This is not the era of your father’s—or your grandfather’s—briar! | From its inception in the late 1850s, the briar industry’s growth and expansion would be best described as evolutionary, starting with that cottage epicenter, St. Claude—with small- and medium-sized workshops—that evolved in the next hundred years into today’s global market comprised, principally, of industrial-strength manufacturers known by their long-standing company name or their trademark, e.g., “White Dot,” “WDC” in an inverted triangle, or the oval escutcheon “GBD.” By comparison, in the last 50 years, what’s been happening in the trade is considered revolutionary! This sector of the industry consisting of independent, skilled crafts people has been growing exponentially, and it is giving the old establishments a run for their money. This is not the era of your father’s—or your grandfather’s—briar! | ||