BBB Catalog Set

BBB Catalogue No. XX (1912) is, at 450 pages, twice what the Dunhill catalogue is. This is a very high-quality reprint of the original 1912 edition. A tobacconist’s catalogue brimming with pipes and smoker’s requisites, this wholesale catalogue takes you back to a time when the pipe-smoker’s lifestyle was taken rather seriously. A period classic from the zenith of the smoking lifestyle, no pipe shape, material, or presentation is ignored, including briar, meerschaum, clay, amber, sterling silver, calabash gourd, companion sets, and cabinets. In addition to the thousands of photographs, Gary B Schrier has prefaced the work with the hitherto unknown history of the firm. At long last, something more to discuss about this great pipe company than what those three “B”s represent!

Included with the set is BBB 100 Years in the Service of Smokers 1847-1947, A colorful and fascinating look at the Adolph Frankau Company. After 100 years making the BBB brand pipe, the firm released this large format, 20-page all-color booklet hi-lighting the international presence of the famed BBB briar.