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Pipe of display * earth representing the bust of the Chevalier Bayard ** with his helmet, below the attributes of the knight (ax, sword ... etc), signed JB for Gambier ***, vintage late nineteenth- early twentieth centuries.
This pipe is in good condition.
A note: a few minor accidents in places, wear time, see photos.
These are pipes manufactured to ensure publicity and reputation of the company. These "masterpieces" pipes showcased the know-how of the Gambier piping craftsmen and were presented at exhibitions or in the windows of specialized retail stores. The oldest is the pipe produced for the Universal Exhibition of 1849. First exhibited on this occasion, it was then produced to serve in the displays.
Pierre Terrail, lord of Bayard, better known under the name of Bayard or the knight Bayard, born in 1475 or 1476 with the castle Bayard, with Pontcharra (commune located in the current French department of Isère), and died on April 30th 1524 in Piedmont (Italy), is a dauphinois noble who excelled as a knight during the wars of Italy (fifteenth and sixteenth centuries). His life is narrated by one of his companions in arms, Jacques de Mailles, in the Very joyous and very pleasant story of the kind lord of Bayart, the good knight without fear and without reproach. His life is at the origin of the character of the knight without fear and without reproach which symbolizes the values ??of French chivalry of the end of the Middle Ages.
An existing pipe-making workshop since 1780, he won the Gold Medal at the National Exhibition in 1849. The production of pipes is important throughout the 19th century, which also saw the opening of stores selling the brand to Paris (1846) and London (1860). The war will put an end to the expansion of the workshop, which will definitely close in the 1920s.
