Pipe Brands
C. P. Heininger & Company
A long-established San Francisco tobacco goods firm, founded in the late nineteenth century, that made its own C.P.H. pipes while also selling imported brands, and lost its premises in the 1906 earthquake and fire.
C. P. Heininger & Company was a tobacco goods firm founded in San Francisco in the early 1880s that sold both pipes of its own manufacture and imported foreign brands. According to city directories, its founder Charles Peter Heininger is recorded as a pipe dealer in 1882; the firm's name was known in the tobacco goods trade on America's West Coast for more than forty years.
The Founder and the Firm's Beginnings
Charles Peter Heininger was born in Philadelphia in 1857 and worked in various workshops in that city in his youth. He settled in San Francisco in 1881, founding his business that same year or shortly after. The business's early years were not steady: around 1885 he withdrew from the tobacco goods trade and turned to publishing, then returned to importing and manufacturing pipes and tobacco accessories in 1889. The publishing side was never entirely abandoned; library records list Heininger's name as the publisher of albums depicting views of the Pacific coast and San Francisco. This dual structure also shaped the firm's identity: alongside pipes, the store carried scenic albums, canes, and ornamental items made from local woods.
Production and the Brands Sold
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