** FACTORY LONG AGO CLOSED -- VERY RARE PIPE ** 1960's ROPP PRESIDENT SITTER BOAT SHAPED BRIAR PIPE MADE IN FRANCE, ST.-CLAUDE Shape Nr.: 90 -- M E A S U R E M E N T S Length: 152 mm -- 5.98 " Diamater of the bowl: 19.5 mm -- 0.77 " Depth of the bowl: 31 mm -- 1.22 " Weight: 28 gr Metal Filter Tube -- Vulcanite Stem !! "Eugène-Léon Ropp (1830 - 1907) had acquired a patent for a cherrywood pipe (wild cherry, lat.: Prunus avium) in 1869. In 1870 he established a workshop to manufacture such pipes in Büssingen (Bussang, Vosges mountains). Around 1893 the business moved into the former mill of Sicard (part of the community of Baume-les-Dames - Département Doubs, Upper Burgundy - from 1895 on). The pipes were a big success in the export as well. Shortly before 1914 Ropp designated A. Frankau & Co. (BBB) in to be the exclusive distributor in the UK and it's colonies. Probably in 1917 a workshop in Saint-Claude in the Rue du Plan du Moulin 8 was acquired to start the fabrication of briar pipes. In 1923 a small building in the environment of Saint-Claude, serving as a workshop for polishing, was added. Even though cherrywood pipes were the mainstay of Ropp until the company finally closed down in September 1991. The company was taken over by Cuty-Fort Entreprises (Chacom, Jeantet, Vuillard, Jean Lacroix...) in 1994"
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