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Bay Pipe
A Turkish workshop brand in Eskişehir that carves block meerschaum. Founded by Emre Mangaltepe, it is known for figural carving and portrait pipes worked from photographs.
Bay Pipe is the brand of a Turkish pipe workshop in Eskişehir that carves block meerschaum. The name appears in some records written as one word, "Baypipe," and on the brand's own older pages as "Emre Bay Pipe Meerschaum." Behind the workshop is master carver Emre Mangaltepe, who came to the craft from mine work. The founding year has not been disclosed; archive records show the brand's website was already online by 2013 at the latest.
The Master's Path
According to his published biography, Mangaltepe was born in 1986 in Eskişehir's Mihalıççık district, worked outside the craft between 2003 and 2007, and turned to meerschaum mining in 2007. He describes having learned carving afterward, going from workshop to workshop alongside masters, and traveling to Denmark to see how the craft was practiced elsewhere. He has served multiple terms as chairman of the Eskişehir Meerschaum Handicrafts Association, and spoke about the story of meerschaum at a TEDx event in 2019.
The Workshop's Output
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