Really great looking pipe! And I have to remark on the positioning of the photo. You have horns!
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I’m glad you liked that, everyone should have a little laugh every now and then.
Smoking some salty dog plug agian.
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That's messed up man, you look nothing like your avatar.
Nice pipe. I have a similar Comoys that can't be beat for smoking flakes.
Finishing tonight with some Speakeasy Navy Blend in a MM Legend with some dark red wine.
Morley's Best in a Tekin bent Rhodesian Meerschaum.
Pegasus, followed by Bayou Morning in a Jason Patrick Billiard Bear small trapper
Rustica courtesy of @charf in an Orlik meer
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, big porterhouse steak and lightly buttered baked potato with a big slice of chocolate cake and sliced strawberries for dessert on an off-diet day. I'm half way through this bowl of first release Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink. Rain hasn't turned to snow yet, but big Stripesy showed up wet and cold and ready to eat.
Mac Baren Vanilla Roll Cake in a 3/4 size, unbranded meerschaum....is it an apple or a billiard?
Either way it's my current favorite pipe.
Either way it's my current favorite pipe.
Love that pipe ?
2021 Cringle in my SHP billiard.
2011 Christmas Cheer in a smooth brandy silver mounted Altinok meer.
You could remind her about the boys at Eton during The Great Plague
"Londoners also employed various superstitious measures to protect them from the disease. Wearing lucky charms was common, and was even recommended by doctors and because the plague was thought to be caused by foul air, people tried to ward it off by burning brimstone (sulphur) — as recommended by the College of Physicians — or by wearing perfumes, carrying fragrant flowers or smoking tobacco. At Eton College smoking became a requirement and boys who did not smoke were punished by whipping. One preventative method that may have had some success was the avoidance of direct contact between traders and their customers. Rather than handing money direct to the trader, customers put their coins into a bowl of vinegar. And the goods purchased were sometimes handed over on the end of a long hook.
From the Encyclopedia of the Black Death by Joseph P. Byrne“For personal disinfections nothing enjoyed such favour as tobacco; the belief in it was widespread, and even children were made to light up a reaf in pipes. Thomas Hearnes remembers one Tom Rogers telling him that when he was a scholar at Eton in the year that the great plague raged, all the boys smoked in school by order, and that he was never whipped so much in his life as he was one morning for not smoking. It was long afterwards a tradition that none who kept a tobacconist shop in London had the plague.”
A J Bell writing in about 1700.
Looks smart - like the pipe Sherlock Holmes smoked in Pursuit to Algiers (1945)
I remember similar figurines in the 1970s which had Made in Taiwan stickers on the base ... or is yours made in Italy with a Capodimonte backstamp?
An absolutely sublime Bell’s Three Nuns with 6+ years (Jan 2016) in a Paykoc Meerschaum Sherlock Holmes- From Sherlock Holmes/ Dr Watson two pipe set
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