Meerschaum pipes are renowned as masterpieces of the Turkish carvers' art. But this 300-year-old craft is dying out. Fewer people in Turkey and Europe are smoking pipes nowadays.

This set of Turkish meerschaum pipes is worth about $150. (Photo Courtesy of Brenda Yenke) By . Brenda Yenke, Sun News; ...

This last Christmas I tried (unsuccessfully) to give away a Turkish pipe made of meerschaum clay. It was a handsome pipe, carved in the shape of a man’s head with an amber mouthpiece. It had ...

Kropf doesn’t sell smoke itself—just the pungent dried leaf tobacco and the heirloom-quality wooden, briar and Turkish meerschaum sea clay pipes where one would put that tobacco.

Meerschaum pipes are a collector’s dream: Yenke Peddler antiques Published: Nov. 14, 2019, 10:00 a.m. This soapstone figurine was created in Japan and dates to the 1920s.