Missouri Meerschaum has produced the pipes since 1869. The Missouri Meerschaum Company is a tobacco smoking pipe manufacturer located in Washington, Missouri. He is almost always smoking a meerschaum pipe that spouts vile-smelling blue or green smoke. Old, well-smoked meerschaum pipes are valued by collectors for their distinctive coloring. The porous nature of meerschaum draws moisture and tobacco tar into the stone. Carved Turkish meerschaum products traditionally were made in manufacturing centers such as Vienna. Carved Turkish meerschaum products were traditionally made in manufacturing centers such as Vienna. Fred travels widely and gives Ward a meerschaum pipe after visiting Germany. The first recorded use of meerschaum for making pipes was around 1723. In Somalia and Djibouti, meerschaum is used to make the dabqaad, a traditional incense burner. In the African Great Lakes region, large deposits of meerschaum were found in Tanganyika. In 1907 H. Tibbe & Son Co. became the Missouri Meerschaum Company. The lining was made of meerschaum, though tin was used for low-grade models.