Dr. Grabow Pipes

steverino · Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 11:31 am Post subject: The Alpha and the Omega

With some of the conversation recently about Alpha pipes, it just hit me that Grabow had both the Alpha and the Omega - the "beginning and the end", as it were. I am just curious if it was ever used this way in the marketing. I forget when the Omega came about, so didn't know if the two names might have been thought of together in the sense I expressed above.

Irishlefty · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 4:52 am Post subject:

Cool concept - the beginning and the end of pipes. Kinda true in a way - how many American pipe manufacturers are left? Grabow and S Frank, Ehrlich is still making some in Boston, Monarch in Oklahoma American (Mark Tinsky), B.A. Weaver, and a few other individuals. I don't know if Lee, Consolidated or National Briar are still operating.