Our Legal Name is now Pipeshoppe.com

Pipeshoppe.com is no longer Penn Valley Pipes & Tobacco Co. It is now Pipeshoppe.com. If you wish to purchase by check please make the check payable to: Pipeshoppe.com Pipeshoppe.com is a retail division of Grunge Works Studios LLC. Don't worry if you still see Penn Valley Pipes or Penn Valley Pipe Shoppe on our literature and web pages from time to time. It's hard to relinquish the old identity and we are still the same people here behind the scenes.
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Our Contact number has changed

As of May 25, 2023, our phone number is +1 (607) 258-0123. The old number (607) 354-4959 is still an option, however, due to too many dropped calls we recommend using the new phone number to reach us during normal business hours (M-F 10:00 am to 5:00 pm Eastern Time). If you are calling via Skype you should use (607) 354-4959, for all other callers, please use the new number.
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Rare Find

Antique clay and briar pipes and a vintage 1920s cigar box. We were contacted by a person in Baltimore who has a vintage cigar box his grandfather owned with a collection of old pipes brought over from Germany in the early 20th century. The pipes include a clay and egg pipe bowl, a Vienna coffeehouse tall pipe bowl, a clay pipe bowl with lines similar to the Old German Clay Pipe #40, and pipe bowls from the old Pamplin pipe company. There are two briar pipes one with a horn stem and one with an Ebonite stem. Also, several bamboo…
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Corn Cobs for IPSD and Presidents Day

This year as always International Pipe Smoking Day falls on February 20. It just so happens that in the United States February 20, 2023, is Presidents Day. For several years now the mention of Presidents Day has caused a flare-up of feelings – ranging from pride to loathing – depending on one's political views and the person sitting in the Oval Office. Here at the Pippeshoppe, we don't take sides. We respect every position and belief held by our dear customers. Politics just don't energize us, but we do adore International Pipe Smoking Day. As a kid in grade school,…
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Visit our booth at the Capitaland Pipe Show in Albany, NY – October 1, 2022

Visit our booth at the Capitaland Pipe Show in Albany, NY – October 1, 2022

Penn Valley Pipes will join Old German Clay Pipes at the 2022 Capitaland Pipe Show in Albany, NY on October 1, 2022. We will be showcasing some of the pipes by the distinguished German pipe maker, Roland Kirsch, whose works you can see below. If you are interested in purchasing any of the pipes on this page, please send us an email describing which pipe(s) you would like to buy.
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IPSD February 20th

International Pipe smoking Day - February 20 If you love clay pipes, or briar pipes, or Meerschaum, or corn cobs, or love all sorts of pipes, February 20th is your day to shine. The first International Pipe Smoking Day was held in 2008 and is celebrated in at least 30 countries world-wide. It was the brainchild of the International Comité of Pipe Smokers Clubs (CIPC) whose goal is to promote the history and the value of pipe smoking. Here's what the CIPC had to when they launched the IPSD. PURPOSE On the special IPSD – once a year- pipe smokers around…
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First Class International and Priority Mail suspended to Australia

We generally use the US Postal Service for international orders but the USPS has restricted shipments to Australia due to COVIS-19. The U.S. Postal Service has TEMPORARILY suspended First Class Package International Service (as of September 3, 2021) and Priority Mail International (as of September 17, 2021) delivery to Australia due to carrier issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic.  Priority Mail Express International delivery is not being impacted and mail pieces will continue to be delivered. If your First Class Package International Service parcel is already in transit, the international carriers will endorse the items as “Mail Service Suspended — Return to Sender” and…
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Will I get a refund if the Post Office cannot deliver my package?

It is the customers responsibility to make certain the shipping address provided is correct. We ship to the address we see on the order form. If for any reason the package cannot be delivered and is returned to Pipeshoppe.com, we may either send a refund for the items purchased or issue a store credit in the amount of the purchase price of the items. We will not refund the postage.
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The Porcelain Hunter Pipe

The Porcelain Hunter Pipe

My friend Steve once complained, "I went to Germany and all I got was this crappy t-shirt and a porcelain hunter pipe." They also had to pick him up off the sidewalk outside a Munich beer hall on several occasions during his tour of Germany, but that's another story. So it goes, I suppose, that most hunter pipes are bought by tourists in order to prove to their neighbors that they actually went somewhere exotic and vaguely quaint, rather than something to add to their vast pipe collection. Let it be known that the noble Hunter Pipe is not just…
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