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Ravkesef

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First Name

Eric

Last Name

Silver

City

Cheshire

State

CONNECTICUT

Country

United States Of America

Smoked First Pipe

September 5, 1959

Type of Pipe Usually Smoked

Briar

Latest Top Five Tobaccos

Balkan Sobranie (yes, I still have a few left)
Our Best Blend (Smoker’s Haven)
Peretti Blend 1072
Peretti No Name
Iwan Ries Banner Lite

Pipes I Own (Or some of them)

Boswell
Paolo Becker
Claudio Cavicchi
Charatan
Caminetto
GBD
Connoisseur
Dunhill

Current Favorite Pipe

Bent Charatan

Ravkesef's Activity

  • Ravkesef commented on the blog post The Pipes Magazine Radio Show - Episode 27   1 month, 3 weeks ago

    Again, thank you to Brian for a really fine interview. And also, thank you to all of you for the kind remarks that you made concerning my responses to Brian’s questions. I had no idea that my words would engender such a response. Thank you all so very much.
    And now it’s time for next week’s [...]

  • Ravkesef commented on the blog post The Pipes Magazine Radio Show - Episode 27   1 month, 4 weeks ago

    Sorry, Allan, no blessing for tobacco. However, on getting a new pipe, or even trying out a new tobacco, I think that the blessing Shehecheyanu (giving thanks to God for having kept us in life and brought us to this occasion,) would be most appropriate.
    Rabbi Eric

  • Ravkesef commented on the blog post The Pipes Magazine Radio Show - Episode 27   1 month, 4 weeks ago

    I am always appreciative when I encounter a good interviewer, and Brian really hit it on the spot! Thank you, Brian, for your incisive questions–they were direct, to the point, and had just the right amount of humor to make the interview sparkle. My wife listened with great interest and said that you [...]

  • Ravkesef commented on the blog post Snobbery Is As Snobbery Does   9 months, 2 weeks ago

    I have my eye on a Dr Bob that goes for around $400. It’s beautiful, and I wonder if I’ll get $400 worth of pleasure out of it. I have Charatans, Dunhills, Connoisseurs, a Preben Holm, some GBDs, all told around 70 pipes, and I have 3 Missouri Meerschaums that, if the truth be [...]

  • Docturknowles and Ravkesef are now friends   9 months, 4 weeks ago

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  • By the way, I was there two weeks ago and brought with me a catalogue from 1973. The staff were fascinated by it, especially the prices. I pointed out to them the emphasis on pipes, tobacco and cigars, whereas today that forms a minor part of the business, and Ehrlich is no more. Incidentally, the upstairs where we used to smoke and have a bite to eat is not the same as it was, and the health department posted ”no smoking” signs throughout the store. It’s a pale shadow of what it was.
    I started smoking DPE in 1969, and sad to relate, the current blend isn’t what it used to be. The manager told me that it was ”90% the same.” It’s the other 10% that worries me.

  • Thanks for the message. I am actually from Avon, CT. Cake Box and Judges Mixture are my two favorite blends from L & P.

    I love that store especially the upstairs chess parlour room.

    Enjoy your visit and the fine tobacco.

    Cheers.