Tobacco Pipe Stuff: Pipe Identification

Searching for the who, where, when, and why of this pipe.

The 1964 Wally Frank catalog has some similar looking pipes. Clearly not the same person carved here, but at least a similar concept. The pipe stem I have does not have that metal thing depicted in the catalog, nor evidence that there was one.

1964 Wally Frank catalog from the really well done website Chris' Pipe Pages

See citation above.

I did find another carved Sorensen pipe on EBAY here.

AND information on the store in Norway here

Actually, they still have some carved head pipes, and if Google Translate is correct "Sculpture pipe is hand made of beautiful briar. Manufactured by Comoy in France" Looks like they go for around 80 dollars.. So it seems likely the pipe came from this store. It would seem, like many pipe stores, that they just re-brand some of the pipes they sell, (i.e. they don't make them) Their carved head pipes now come from Comoy's (I guess the brand has changed hands a few times), but given the age of this pipe there is no reason to believe that it was made by Comoy's.....

WHO?

The carving looks like it could be the Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. I guess that would make sense given the pipes origins.