In the 1970s my father created the "Chicken Foot Pipe" and began selling them. (He even had a tattoo of himself as a wizard, smoking the chicken foot pipe on his bicep!)
His initial designs had ornate hand-wrapped mouth-pieces made with leather and beads, and took some time to create.
By the 1980s he was mass producing them using black heat shrink tubing around a plastic mouthpiece. The bowl was generally corncob or wood - earlier designs used fancy, smooth, polished dark wood.
He patented the product, and sold thousands of them wholesale. He also sold them in his store, Smoke -n- Leather in Enfield, CT.
Here is one example of a very early version.
If you have a leather item made by "Raphael Products", or a chicken foot pipe from the 1990s, you're looking at one of his crafts. A unique item and "good quality stuff". (He was also a graphic designer and silk-screener who produced mugs, hats, t-shirts, signs, etc. in his factory in East Windsor.)
My mother also produced ceramics ("Deb's Ceramics") which were sold at the shop.
