A couple of new guys arrived from Al Pascia, Milan Italy. Gift-wrapped of course, oh boy!
The obvious oddity (top) is a Brebbia Duo Filter with "Selected" briar. So one 9mm in the stem and a second optional filter in the lower black reserve port. As a Catholic altar boy growing up, if on a Holy Day of Obligation, I might have served-attended two masses: the priest would say that the second mass would be offered up for someone who failed to come at all. At the end of their lives, God would take this into consideration for them: pass/fail, heaven or hell. So too then, I offer up the first smoke in this two-filter pipe for you sinners who have none.
This pipe gets the white gloved video treatment:
https://youtu.be/-6OtWmjUFkg
The Per Georg Jensen briar has been waiting, patiently, for a home for twenty-five years (1992 production). Lovely straight grain grasps the shank out to the bowl; ebonite stem. First smoke? HH Vintage Syrian, of course.
Click on the pipe picts in this link for a closer look at the wood:
http://www.alpascia.com/pipes/d/Georg-Jensen-131-i26911.html
The obvious oddity (top) is a Brebbia Duo Filter with "Selected" briar. So one 9mm in the stem and a second optional filter in the lower black reserve port. As a Catholic altar boy growing up, if on a Holy Day of Obligation, I might have served-attended two masses: the priest would say that the second mass would be offered up for someone who failed to come at all. At the end of their lives, God would take this into consideration for them: pass/fail, heaven or hell. So too then, I offer up the first smoke in this two-filter pipe for you sinners who have none.
This pipe gets the white gloved video treatment:
https://youtu.be/-6OtWmjUFkg
The Per Georg Jensen briar has been waiting, patiently, for a home for twenty-five years (1992 production). Lovely straight grain grasps the shank out to the bowl; ebonite stem. First smoke? HH Vintage Syrian, of course.
Click on the pipe picts in this link for a closer look at the wood:
http://www.alpascia.com/pipes/d/Georg-Jensen-131-i26911.html