Pipe Collectors Club of America

The Pipe Collectors Club of America, better known as PCCA, was started in 1984 as a way to interact with the hobby by offering information in a 32 page printed newsletter called The Smokers Pipeline. In addition to the newsletter, PCCA would offer high grade products, mainly pipes, at club discounted prices and make available a selection of products well beyond that offered by others.

In the beginning we did charge a nominal fee for membership, after all, something had to pay for the cost of thousands of newsletters and photos, but this fee was dropped after about 5 years. I will get more detailed with these events in my online book (for lack of a better word for that series of articles). 

PCCA went totally online in about 1992 when we dropped the printed newsletter and although we did publish two sites, pipeguy.com and pipesmoke.com, neither sites was 100% information or 100% products.

With the re-launch  of PCCA online in late 2006 we have established two sites once again. This site pipeguy.com, will only be used for information and articles contributed by those that I consider much smarter than me. Experience, first hand knowledge and history are somewhat elusive on the net today., This is not to say there is not a lot of information published, there is, just that much of what you see written on the net is marketing, conjecture and theory rather than fact.

Pipeguy.net will be exclusively products for sale and will be responsible for paying for the cost of both sites. Other than just being the source of income for PCCA's ongoing operations, we want to go back to our original concept with the products we offer through PCCA, that being not the ordinary everyday product lines offered by everyone.

Rare, unusual, hard to find well graded pipes are what make up the greater basis for pipe collecting. While its impossible to chase the current trend or fad, without going broke adding yesterday's trend to our today inventory, it is possible to offer established lines of high quality along with a selection of shapes, grades and price points. This second point, established product lines, we believe offers true value to those products we will carry, tested timeless value in new products and also on the estate market. I'll leave the specifics to the lines and products PCCA will offer to the news section and offer areas of Pipeguy.net.

PCCA was conceived in 1984 as a way to share information and offer the best products. Today, 2006 as this is being written, PCCA offers two sites, one exclusively for information and the other dedicated to quality products for sale. We hope that you enjoy and use both of our sites.   -RCH

Although this site does not sell anything nor do we collect any user information on this site, PCCA does maintain a policy page for refunds, exchanges and privacy which can be found on our product sales www.pipeguy.net site located here PCCA Policy Page.