The natives who have been making Powhatan Pipes for centuries are
rapidly disappearing. Their children seem unwilling to do the necessary
primitive and tedious work. Manual clay pipe-making, probably America’s
oldest industry, will soon be only a tradition.
Today the Powhatan Pipe is more than a source of peaceful, contented
smoking enjoyment. It is a collector’s prize, an authentic American
treasure. In a few years it will be generally unobtainable.
This company is the world’s sole producer of genuine Indian pipes. Since
1739 it has preserved this historic industry. Its clay deposit in
Appomattox County, Virginia, holds the only clay discovered as ideal for
Indian pipes. The trade-mark and name, “Original Powhatan Indian Pipe,”
is its exclusive property.
Yet the famous Powhatan Pipe is very low in price, as for many years
past, giving the consumer a splendid value, and the jobber and retailer
a profit unheard of in the tobacco trade.
[Illustration: Plate 10. Price list of Pamplin Company Pipe Forms.
Brochure, November 15, 1941. Copy, Morton L. Wallenstein.]
PRICE LIST
(EFFECTIVE NOVEMBER 15, 1941)
[_See Page 6 for Jobber’s Discounts_]