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  1. briarfriar

    Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake by the Small Faces

    Today is Record Store Day! Who has a copy of an original Small Faces’ “Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake” in the circular metal package of a replica giant tobacco tin?
  2. briarfriar

    How Cillian Murphy Learned to Smoke like Oppenheimer

    A story in the Irish Independent explains how Peterson in Dublin helped an actor win an Academy Award. Click here.
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    STG: Sales Flat, Profits Down

    Cigar Aficionado reports discouraging news from a tobacco conglomerate that makes pipe mixtures we probably all enjoy. Click here. Jay
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    New Study Aims to Reduce Pipe-Smoking in the U.K.

    A story today in The Critic. Excerpted:
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    Bill Fader, R.I.P.

    From the Baltimore Sun: Ira Brownold ‘Bill’ Fader Jr., proprietor of Baltimore tobacco shop Fader’s, dies https://www.baltimoresun.com/2024/01/11/ira-brownold-bill-fader-jr-proprietor-of-baltimore-tobacco-shop-faders-dies/
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    Smoking (and Drinking) in Ye Olde Masonic Lodges

    Some revealing history, from 1920, about the early years of the Ancient and Honorable Craft: https://themagpiemason.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-bowl-and-pipe.html?m=0
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    Signage regulation in Ontario

    From Victory Cigars via Facebook:
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    Suggestions for the Gettysburg area?

    Would anyone be able to recommend a pipe shop in or near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania? Thanks, Jay
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    Texas: Pipe World, Inc.

    Read all about it here.
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    Wisconsin: The Happy Piper

    GazetteXtra reports on a new shop. Click here. The Happy Piper website here.
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    Clay Pipes as Weapons, Surgical Tools

    Read all about it here.
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    NY Gov Polls on Total Ban on Tobacco Sales

    From today’s New York Post: “What is your opinion about a policy that would end the sale of all tobacco products in New York within 10 years?” Click here.
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    The Pipes Are Calling in ‘The Spectator’ Yesterday

    “This morning, like so many other mornings, I spent at least half an hour, over coffee, staring at online pictures of pipes. This does not make me an aspiring plumber, or someone with a fetish for u-bends or draining units. I’m talking about briar pipes, tobacco pipes: for though I know I should...
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    Harvard Independent Story on Leavitt & Peirce

    “Leavitt & Peirce’s signature is in its smell. Barrels of loose tobacco create an unmistakable aroma, one employees have long gotten used to, that lingers in every corner. Employees fill their tables with hard cedar soaps, their shelves with Harvard vs. Yale footballs, and their bins with...
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    Laudisi Company Expansion

    It looks like Laudisi is expanding. Read all about it here.
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    International Association of Pipe Smokers’ Clubs Convention in 1965 in Missouri

    Click here for a recent Missourian news story. Click here for a few dozen very 1965 photos of the event.
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    New Shop in Steubenville, Ohio

    Chesterson and Company Cigars opens in former Herald Square Cigar Store location. Read all about it here.
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    Antique Masonic Humidor

    St. Paul’s Lodge 481 commissioned tobacco humidors in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania in 1911. Beautiful ceramics were pretty common at that time. Pitchers, loving cups, etc. And many were made in New Jersey.
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    Author’s Research Leads Her to Us

    “Stewart’s writing process involved smelling everything from beer to dirt to perfume to rows of different kinds of vinegar. Surprisingly, the one smell she never grew tired of was pipe tobacco. It’s something smokers consider too; when picking out a type of tobacco, they consider the tin note...
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    Owl Shop Moving to New Hampshire

    Owl Shop in Worcester, Massachusetts is relocating to New Hampshire. (Not the shop in New Haven.) Read all about it here.