We are a Meerschaum Smoking Pipe store in Denver and we love what we do. We are a Colorado based, family owned and operated company that has been growing for a very long time. We have served the Denver area and worldwide for more than 20 years. If you are one of those customers, we want to thank you for your business. You have been helping us grow our company over the past 2 decades and we appreciate you. We offer wholesale pricing to qualified vendors and bulk orders, on top of many other pricing benefits. Please take your time to browse our large selection of amazing pipes and unique hand crafted gifts.  

Our well designed Meerschaum Smoking Pipes are also known as sepiolite, which is a soft white mineral. It has been and is often used to make smoking pipes. It is sometimes found floating on the Black Sea and rather suggestive of sea-foam. It has the German origin of the name as well as the French name for the same substance. Meerschaum is opaque and off-white, grey or cream color, breaking with a conchoidal or fine earthy fracture. It also is occasionally fibrous in texture. It can be readily scratched with the finger nail and its hardness is ranked at about 2 on the Mohs Scale. Its gravity varies from 0.988 to 1.279 but the porosity of the mineral may lead to many other errors. Meerschaum is a hydrous magnesium silicate. 

Meerschaum has been used as a substitute for soapstone and fuller's earth. It's actually a building material but its chief use is for smoking pipes and as a cigarette holder. The first recorded use of meerschaum for making pipes was around 1723. It quickly became prized as the perfect material for providing a cool, dry, flavorful smoke. The porous nature of meerschaum draws moisture and tobacco tar into the stone. Meerschaum became a premium substitute for the clay pipes of the day.

When smoked, meerschaum smoking pipes gradually change color. And the old meerschaums will turn incremental shades of yellow, orange, red, and amber from the base on up. When prepared for use as a pipe, the natural nodules are first scraped to remove the red earthy matrix. This happens when dried, scraped and polished with wax. We at Paykoc Imports carry some of the best pipes you will ever lay eyes on and our prices are quite reasonable!