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Brand Dating Guides
Jeantet pipes carry no year. They are dated by the life of the factory, with wide and honest ranges.
Updated 2026-10-13
Welcome. If your pipe says Jeantet, this guide is for you.
Jeantet was a family firm in Saint-Claude, the pipe town of the French Jura.
No Jeantet pipe carries a year. No source gives a year for any stamp or line.
So we date these pipes by the story of the factory. The ranges are wide on purpose.
Our facts come from Pipedia and pipephil. Where they disagree, we show both.
Each rule has a rank: high, medium or low. Every Jeantet rule here is low, because no stamp change is dated.
1775 to 2010
Pipedia first finds the Jeantet family firm in 1775.
By 1807 they ran a wood-turning shop. It made wooden shanks for porcelain pipes and pipes of wild cherry wood.
The firm was named Jeantet-David in 1816. In 1837 it became a company for many small workshops.
Briar pipe making began in 1858. By 1890 the firm had 51 workers.
About 1891 it began one large factory at Rue de Bonneville. Building took several years.
In 1898 Maurice Jeantet changed the business. He also bought the workshop next door.
In 1938 it became a limited company. A second workshop in Montréal-la-Cluse, a town in the Ain area, finished the cheaper pipes.
In 1948 Jeantet had 107 workers in Saint-Claude and 18 in Montréal-la-Cluse.
Production was highest around 1969. Then 72 workers made 30,000 to 35,000 dozen pipes a year.
By 1987 output had fallen to 6,000 or 7,000 dozen, with 22 workers.
Yves Grenard was once Jeantet's chief designer. In 1971 he took over Chapuis-Comoy, the maker of Chacom.
Pipedia says Jeantet joined the Cuty Fort group, led by Chacom, in 1988. Pipephil says 1992.
Chacom closed the Jeantet factory. The town of Saint-Claude bought the buildings in 1989.
After that, Jeantet pipes were made by Chapuis-Comoy as a second brand.
Dominique Jeantet retired in 2000, says pipephil.
In 2010 the brand left the group and went back to the family. Pipephil says pipe making then stopped.
First read the name Jeantet on the shank. It may also be on the stem.
Early pipes show Jeantet with a curly, decorated J. Pipephil calls this early stamping, with no years.
Later pipes show Jeantet in an arch, for example with the word Luxe.
JEANTET Production since 1807 was a stamp for pipes sold abroad. One example adds CORSICAN BRIAR and Made in France.
Line names include Sir Duke, Duke of Kent, Grand Duke, Hermes, Sir Bruce, Antidote, Maya, Lumberman, Preference and Jumbos.
Sir Duke pipes are Algerian briar. Some are stamped MEERSCHAUM LINED.
Stem logos include an eight-sided logo and an Olympic logo. Neither has a date in our sources.
Our sources hold no Jeantet shape chart. Each shape number below comes from one restored pipe, so one source only.
Restorers saw 4 on a bent Dublin and 9 on a bent freehand apple. Both were stamped Fait Main, French for handmade.
Restorers saw 944 on a meerschaum-lined Brummer billiard and 960 on a Bruyere Jumbos billiard.
A Fleuron pipe showed 70-7. No source names a shape for that number.
The words since 1807 are a company claim. They do not mean your pipe was made in 1807.
The same is true for 1775, 1816 or 1837 on a Jeantet. These are company dates, not shape numbers.
Briar pipes began only in 1858. A Jeantet briar pipe cannot be older than that.
The sources disagree on the merger year: 1988 or 1992. Our ranges are kept loose around both.
Pipedia says Chacom still makes Jeantet as a second brand. Pipephil says production stopped after 2010.
We know no stamp that tells a family-factory pipe from a later Chacom-made Jeantet.
The Maya line is named after the cartoon Maya the Bee. No source dates the pipe line, so the cartoon dates nothing.
Paul Jeantet SA is a different firm in Saint-Claude. It made stems and rubber parts, not Jeantet pipes.
Each row comes from our Jeantet cabinet. All are low, because no stamp change has a date.
Jeantet on a briar pipe
From the start of briar making in 1858 to the end of production after 2010. It tells you the maker, not the decade.
Made in France, or France
The same briar years. No source dates a change in this country stamp.
JEANTET Production since 1807 (export stamp)
Pipes made for export, per pipephil. The 1900 start is our cabinet's own guess; no source dates this stamp.
Jeantet with a curly, decorated J
Pipephil calls it early stamping. No source gives its first or last year, so the window is wide.
What We Don't Know Yet
Published deliberately. If you hold the catalogue, hallmarked example, or period document that closes one of these gaps, write to us — corrections are credited. Every open question across the encyclopedia is gathered on the Open Questions page.
Changelog
Sources
Holding a Jeantetyou can't place? Our shelves usually hold a few — documented to this same standard.
Jeantet in the Shop