If you have a small collection of tobacco pipes, here is how they made a pipe rack in the early 1900s. While I don’t smoke, I do like the idea of making a pipe rack and hanging it in the library to add a touch of character to the room.
For the Men that Smoke
We give a sketch of a very practical little pipe rack that can be easily and inexpensively made, and it has this advantage, that the pipes are held with the stems upwards, thus preventing the nicotine from running into the mouthpieces, a thing which always happens with a rack in which the pipes are held with the stems pointing downwards.
For the back, a piece of thin wood should be cut, eight inches wide and six inches in height, and for the ledge in front a second piece, an inch and a half wide and eight inches long, will be required. These two pieces of wood may be fastened together with small screws, thin nails or glue, and the rack then neatly covered with art linen or art serge.
The pipes are held in their places by little brass rings screwed into the upper part of the rack and two more rings screwed into the upper edge serve to suspend it from nails in the wall. These brass rings, fitted with a screw on one side, may be obtained at any ironmongers at a very small cost, and are similar to those rings which are so often used for suspending small pictures from the wall.
Source: Holbrook argus. (Holbrook, Ariz.), 25 April 1911.
