Wilhelm C. Demuth (WDC) Hesson Guard Milano Briar Pipe

Description: Vintage Wilhelm C. Demuth (WDC) Hesson Guard Milano Briar Pipe 43 GRAMS SIX INCHES LONG WITH A 1.5 INCH HEAD HEIGHT STINGER SYSTEM STAMPED :PAT TR55800 Circa 1900 WDC Meerschaum w/Amber Stem, couresty Racine & Laramie TobacconistBakelite Ad, Courtesy Doug ValitchkaWDC Milano Ad in The Saturday Evening Post1940 Hesson Guard Ad, courtesy Doug ValitchkaHesson Guard Milano Ad, courtesy Doug ValitchkaCatalog page, courtesy Doug Vaclitchka1943 Hessen Guard Ad, courtesy Doug ValitchkaWDC Sterling Ad, courtesy Doug ValitchkaWDC Stratford, Brighton, Wellington Ad, courtesy Doug ValitchkaWilliam Demuth. (Wilhelm C. Demuth, 1835-1911), a native of Germany, entered the United States at the age of 16 as a penniless immigrant. After a series of odd jobs he found work as a clerk in the import business of a tobacco tradesman in New York City. In 1862 William established his own company. The William Demuth Company specialized in pipes, smoker's requisites, cigar-store figures, canes and other carved objects.The Demuth Company is probably well known for the famous trademark, WDC in an inverted equilateral triangle. William commissioned the figurative meerschaum Presidential series, 29 precision-carved likenesses of John Adams, the second president of the United States (1797-1801) to Herbert Hoover, the 30th president (1929-1933), and "Columbus Landing in America," a 32-inch-long centennial meerschaum masterpiece that took two years to complete and was exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.The Presidential series was the result of Demuth's friendship with President James A. Garfield, a connoisseur of meerschaum pipes. Demuth presented two pipes to Garfield at his inauguration in 1881, one in his likeness, the other in the likeness of the President's wife. Later, Demuth arranged for another figurative matching the others to be added to the collection as each new president acceded to the White House, terminating with President Hoover.Note: This information originally appeared on pages 22-23 of Collecting Antique Meerschaums (Schiffer Publishing Ltd.,1999), by Ben Rapaport. It was used without permission in the article written by Maureen Timm, As seen in The Antique Shoppe Newspaper, July, 2005, [1] but is used here by permission of the original author.In 1897 Ferdinand Feuerbach joined the Demuth company and by 1903 had become the production manager. Feuerbach is credited with developing Demuth's popular Royal Demuth and Hesson Guard Milano pipelines. He left in 1919, when Sam Frank Sr. needed an experienced pipe man to run his pipe factory, located at 168 Southern Blvd., in the Bronx. Feuerbach and Frank had been close friends since Frank started his own business in 1900 and was closely associated with the sales staff of WDC, selling their line of pipes. SHIPPING ALWAYS COMBINED BUY 3 PIPES AT THE SAME TIME AND SHIPPING IS FREE IN THE USAINTERNATIONAL COLLECTORS MUST USE EBAY GLOBAL SHIPPING

Price: 45 USD

Location: Mount Pleasant, South Carolina

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