Eskişehir, our city ESKISEHIR presentation | Page 9

There is pretty much only one place in the world
where high quality, carveable meerschaum is available to be mined, and that
is in the area surrounding Eskisehir, Turkey. The Turkish government knows of
this monopoly, and, to ensure work for its domestic carvers, has prohibited
the exportation of raw, block meerschaum. So every meerschaum tobacco pipe
on planet earth was mined, carved, and assembled right here in Eskisehir.