Two Blatter & Blatters

Friday morning I discovered unexpectedly that the shortest route between Summerstown, Ontario, where I was spending the night, and Riviere Rouge, Quebec, was through Montreal. I was in a bit of a hurry, in that I wanted to arrive with some daylight (for hunting purposes; the weekend was the inaugural hunt at a friend's new hunt camp), but I still decided that I could squeeze a lightning trip to Blatter & Blatter's pipe store in Montreal and still beat the traffic.
After some consideration, I selected a Canadian and a bent Billiard. This leaves me within spitting distance of a Blatter & Blatter rotation.

I really didn't have as much time as I would have liked, but I did take this shot of the main display:

And I shot a panorama of the inside:

It's always a pleasure shopping there. I had the opportunity to smoke a bowl of Aperitif in the Canadian while watching a lovely Laurentian sunset. It was kind of windy, so not the best conditions for a proper contemplative review, but I'll get around to that in due course.

@mso489: you're absolutely right; Montreal has a fantastic restaurant scene; unfortunately, I'm about fifteen years out of date on it. But back when I was living there, I had no less than eight Indian places that would deliver to my address...
@fnord: I'll make sure my executors give you a right of first refusal on the bent Bulldog once I kick the bucket .
@jpmcwjr: ...by a Canadian. Any more Canadian I'd have to drench myself in maple syrup.

But to get to something that fnord observed, one of the reasons that I really dig the Blatters is that their shapes are pretty darn classic. They make all sorts of pipes, but the line that I'm collecting seems to be old English shapes. I've got a bit of an interest in the Victorian and Edwardian era, and since pipe smoking has such a retro vibe to it, I've been skewing my collection towards old English shapes.