American Smoking Pipe Co. (Mark Tinsky) Freehand (1980s) Tobacco Pipe

An early American Smoking Company freehand. Judging from the fluid freehand shape and stem work; I believe that this piece was carved by Curt Rollar in the mid eighties. This pipe sits at an angle on a massive plateau base, and much of the grain on the body is exemplary. While I (personally) am having a dickens of a time trying to find a comfortable hand position for the composition, with a pipe this striking, it would come to me.

--Bear Graves

Addendum:

This Pipe was made by Mark Tinsky in March 1985 and not by Curt Rollar. For a while the MT stamps were lost so Mark Tinsky's pipes were marked with "*Z" in 1984 and part of 1985. Following this the Z was lost so pipes were stamped "*S" until around October 1986.