Big Ben - Pipe Smoking Kit - Smooth Straight Billiard - 9mm Filter Pipe

This starter kit is perfect for someone relatively new to Pipe smoking or an experienced smoker. The kit comes with a high quality Briar 9mm filter Pipe from Big Ben, nicely presented in a tin. It comes with a cloth sleeve, some pipe cleaners, 2 spare filters and a 3 in 1 pipe tool. Just add tobacco and start smoking!!

Made in Holland, by one of Europe's Leading Pipe Makers, Gubbels. The majority of Big Ben Pipes take 9mm Filters. Big Ben offer innovative designs. Now manufactured on a smaller scale their quality is more important than quantity.

With the help of his family the father of Elbert Gubbels Sr. started a retail shop for tobacco pipes and other smoker's equipment in 1870.

In 1924 Elbert Gubbels Sr., now father / grandfather of the present owners, transformed it into a wholesale trade business. The company grew steadily and imported pipes from various countries as there were no factories producing briar pipes in the Netherlands. The most important suppliers came from France and England.

When German troops occupied the Netherlands in May of 1940, a period of almost five years began in which the Gubbels family could hardly operate their business at all. During this years of forced rest Elbert Gubbels had a notion to become independent of foreign suppliers and he drew up plans to start his own production of tobacco pipes after the II. World War. 

Dimensions

Pipe Length : 147mm
Bowl Height : 49 mm
Pipe Width : 38 mm
Chamber Width : 20 mm
Pipe Weight : 49 grams