Butz-Choquin

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History

Choquin A Metz. Courtesy of Blaik-Pipes
Shape chart, courtesy Doug Valitchka
Shape chart 2, courtesy Doug Valitchka
1970 Oscar Ad, courtesy Doug Valitchka
A flyer featuring Artois and Capitan 70 series pipes, courtesy Joris de Sutter

The pipe, from Metz to Saint-Claude.

Jean-Baptiste Choquin of Metz started out as a tobacconist. This enterprise was prosperous; he had several employees. Among those, there was a certain Gustave Butz who was its first workman and who became his son-in-law by marrying Choquin's daughter Marie in 1858.

In 1858 Jean-Baptiste Choquin created, in collaboration with Gustave Butz, the Choquin pipe. This bent pipe with a flat-bottomed bowl was finished with an albatross-bone mouthpiece, fixed with silver rings.

In 1858, still in Metz, Gustave Butz built an establishment for the manufacture of the Choquin pipe which took the name of . In 1951, the Berrod-Regad company bought the trademark, continuing manufacture until 2002. Departing from Metz, the workshop was relocated to Saint-Claude, then also called "the world capital of the briar pipe", under the Berrod-Regad group. The Berrod-Regad group would go on to completely rebuild the network of representatives until finally entering the export market in 1960 and has since won several prizes, as well as the Gold Cup of French good taste.

In a few years, the brand's collection increased from ten to seventy series. 135 years after it was founded, the pipe is still well-known not only in France but throughout the world. In 2002, the Berrod family, wishing to preserve manufacture of pipes in Saint-Claude, handed over the company to Fabien Guichon, a native of the area, who will continue to develop the brand during the 21st century.

Pipe mark: Butz-Choquin.jpg

Contact Information

Société des pipes Butz-Choquin
2 ter, rue du Plan du Moulin
BP 127
39205 Saint-Claude
France

Phone: +33 (0)3 84 45 12 87
Fax: +33 (0)3 84 45 67 21
E-mail: info@butzchoquin.com
Website: Butz-Choquin