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  AND Meerschaum Pipes (www.meerschaum.com)
But if you are not familiar with meerschaum pipes please spend a few minutes to read these lines.
Because of this peculiarity, meerschaum pipes slowly change their colors to different tones of gold and dark brown.
Meerschaum pipes do not need pre-smoking to have a good quality performance.
www.meerschaum.com   (253 words)

  
  AND Meerschaum Pipes - F.A.Q.
Meerschaum deposits of the highest quality are found only in one place in the world - in the small city of Eskisehir in central Turkey.
Meerschaum - one of the most porous substances found in nature - acts as a filter, absorbs tobacco tars and nicotine, and yields a most satisfying smoke.
Besides, the meerschaum is softer than the cake and it may crack very easily, since the cake expands with heat faster than the meerschaum does.
www.meerschaum.com /faq.htm   (1539 words)

  
  Meerschaum - LoveToKnow 1911
Meerschaum is a hydrous magnesium silicate, with the formula H 4 Mg 2 Si 3 0 10, or Mg 2 Si 3 0 $ 2H20.
Meerschaum is found also, though less abundantly, in Greece, as at Thebes, and in the islands of Euboea and Samos; it occurs also in serpentine at Hrubschitz near Kromau in Moravia.
Meerschaum has occasionally been used as a substitute for soap and fuller's earth, and it is said also as a building material; but its chief use is for tobacco-pipes and cigar-holders.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /Meerschaum   (456 words)

  
 Ataman Hotel - Meerschaum
Meerschaum is a German word meaning literally, sea-foam, alluding to the belief that it was the compressed whitecaps of waves, just as it is said in mythology for the goddess of beauty - Aphrodite.
Meerschaum deposits of the highest quality are found only in one place in the world - in the small city of Eskişehir in central Turkey.
Block meerschaum was exported until 1979, when someone figured out that to export the material was to export the carving jobs as well.
www.atamanhotel.com /meerschaum.html   (449 words)

  
 What Is Meerschaum?
Meerschaum is a hydrous magnesium silicate; its technical name is sepiolite.
Some meerschaum pipes were designed for smoking cigars (especially made for same and generally 2" - 3" long) rather than a normal bowl of tobacco.
In many cases, with age and colouring, it is difficult to tell the difference, so it's generally the cut of the pipe that seperates the ordinary from the outstanding.
www.uniclectica.com /misc/meersch.html   (330 words)

  
 GemRocks: Meerschaum
Interestingly, especially from the etymological standpoint, the word meerschaum is also used widely to refer to pipes; in fact several dictionaries give something like "a tobacco pipe" usually adding that its bowl is made of meerschaum as a second meaning for the word.
Meerschaum is frequently associated with Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty in Greek Mythology.
The relationship is apparently based on the fact that she, like meerschaum, was described as having been "formed" as foam from breaking waves.
www.cst.cmich.edu /users/dietr1rv/meerschaum.htm   (1434 words)

  
 Turkish Meerschaum Pipes - Welcome
Turkish Meerschaum carries a wide selection of solid block meerschaum tobacco pipes that we import direct from Turkey.
These meerschaum tobacco pipes are not cheap pressed meerschaum like you find in many shops.
Corn cob pipes are not as expensive as meerschaum, but they smoke very smoothly.
www.turkishmeerschaum.com   (118 words)

  
 SaruDama: Japanese meerschaum   (Site not responding. Last check: )
If you DO know what you are doing and prefer a customized meerschaum pipe (based on your specifications, sent to Turkey, culled and carved by local meerschaum artisans, and then imported back to you), I am happy to tell you that AND Meerschaum can indeed accomplish this for you.
For this reason I experimented with Turkish Meerschaum pipes only to find that I could not turn back from their quality.
Meerschaum pipes are formed from a rare and highly pourous clay found exclusively in Turkey.
www.sarudama.com /pipe_and_cigar/meerschaum/index.shtml   (293 words)

  
 Encyclopaedia of Meerschaum Pipes and Briar Pipes-Meerschaum Store
After the meerschaum is totally dry it is boiled in beeeswax to seal the pores in the pipe.
Meerschaum, a German word meaning literally ‘sea-foam’, is a fairly scarce product actually is a mineral, a rock made up of magnesium which can be found from a depth of approximately 25 metres.
Meerschaum’s pipe-making qualities lie in the fact that it is a very lightweight, porous material, and is very soft, making it easy to work with.
www.meerschaumstore.com /lopedia.htm   (8811 words)

  
 Eskisehir travel guide
You will see the best meerschaum stone works at the Meerschaum Museum; it is a very light white stone and mostly used to make smoking pipes.
Meerschaum is produced in different places like Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Utah, Mexico, Madrid, and Nairobi; however, they are unimportant in quantity and low in quality.
Meerschaum with the highest quality is found in Eskisehir.
www.world66.com /asia/middleeast/turkey/eskisehir   (1170 words)

  
 Meerschaum Pipe Care Tips
Meerschaum translated from German means "sea foam." This name reflects the meerschaum qualities of light weight and white color.
The highest quality Meerschaum deposits are in only one area of the world, the open plains of central Turkey which surround the city of Eskisehir.
Meerschaum is mined wet from depths of up to 400 feet.
www.herbalcantera.net /meerschaumcare.html   (410 words)

  
 Pipes & Tobaccos Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Because of the limited number of meerschaum pipes available for the contest, entries will be limited to the first 200 received by us.
Return the smoked meerschaum with a card including your full name, address and telephone number postmarked by November 1 to have your pipe eligible for judging.
Please be sure to include information concerning how often you smoked your meerschaum pipe, the type of tobacco smoked in it and the techniques used to smoke it.
www.pt-magazine.com /backissues/spring2002/story2.asp   (361 words)

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