This is the new featured pipe, a moon shaped pipe by Morelli, Marseille. You can ready all about it on the featured pipe page.

’Wrought from the Earth’ the clay tobacco pipe industry in Northern Europe” This year’s conference is a joint effort of the AIP and the Society for Clay Pipe Research (SCPR). The SCPR will kick-off the weeklong conference on Saturday the 23rd in the Potteries Museum in Stoke-on-Trent. On Monday the 25th the AIP will take over the torch with their conference a short distance away in Stone. The complete program for the SCPR and AIP can be found in the AIP newsletter #16. Call f

This is the new featured pipe, a political parody in meerschaum. You can ready all about it on the featured pipe page.

As part of our ongoing effort to expand the historical knowledge of tobacco pipes we are now publishing full digital versions of the older journals on our website. Today we are making Journal #2, 2009 available. Other journals will follow in the coming weeks.

This is the new featured pipe, a Napoleontic porcelain pipe with familiar design. You can ready all about it on the featured pipe page.

This year's AIP conference in Staffordshire, UK, is a joint effort together with the conference of the Society for Clay Pipe Research. More about the joint conference can be read in our latest newsletter The Society for Clay Pipe Research was founded in 1983 and is based in England but with a worldwide membership. One of the principal aims of the Society is to bring together pipe collectors, researchers and other interested individuals so that they can exchange ideas and info

As part of our ongoing effort to expand the historical knowledge of tobacco pipes we are now publishing full digital versions of the older journals on our website. Today we are making Journal #1, 2008, "Les Pipiers Saint-Quentinois, XVIIIème - XIXème siècles" available. Other journals will follow in the coming weeks.

This is the new featured pipe, a 19th century South African serpentine Pipe with European fitments. You can ready all about it on the featured pipe page.

After a lot of work and a lot of waiting the new AIP website is finally online! We are now in the process of making our older publications digitally available and we are preparing teasers of our more recent Journals. In addition we will regularly start uploading new featured pipes on the website. We will keep you up to date on the progress.

Contents: - Review of the 2016 conference to Tokyo, Japan - 2017 Conference in Stone, Staff ordshire, UK - Lost members - Felix van Tienhoven and John James Adler, MBE, JP - A paperweight from Duméril by Ruud Stam - 2017 Subscription Reminder Click here for AIP newsletter #16