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Saul Salzhauer
An American maker who, from 1951 on, hand-carved freehand pipes at the workshop of the Jelling tobacco shop in Newark, having learned the craft from his father during the Great Depression.
Saul Salzhauer was one of the few makers still carving pipes by hand at a bench in New Jersey in the mid-twentieth century. Nearly everything known about him rests on a single source, a February 1973 newspaper article on the handmade pipe makers remaining in the state; since the article's text is not directly accessible today, the information here is given via Pipedia's quoted excerpt.
The two other names mentioned in the same article are Jack H. Weinberger, known by the stamp JHW Pipes, and William Craig, founder of the Craig brand.
Learning the Craft
Salzhauer said he had learned the craft alongside his father, who did the same work, during the years of the Great Depression. Records give his birth year as 1919 or 1920; this is inferred from the statement that he was fifty-three in 1973. He began regular production under his own name in 1951 and made his living from it for more than twenty years. He thus entered a small minority who continued to work by hand at a time when American pipe production had already largely moved to factories.
The Bench in Newark
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