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  1. jguss

    Buck Rogers Dies 🚀

    Oh yeah? He’s a doctor; we’re chopped liver.
  2. jguss

    Buck Rogers Dies 🚀

    Known to posterity as the brain on a chain.
  3. jguss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Also the Comoy “top of the line” changed over time as new models were introduced and old ones discontinued or put on hiatus.
  4. jguss

    Unsmoked Heinrich Strambach with amber & original case – thoughts?

    The easiest (and perhaps quickest) way to find out for sure is to ping the owner, Edith Corrieri: Pipes Manufacturing Robert Strambach Vienna Austria - EINSTIEG - https://www.strambach.at/anfang.html Although I will note that the none of the given names of the founder of Strambach (Edmund), his...
  5. jguss

    Which no longer produced tobacco blend do you or will you miss the most?

    Compton's of Galashiels Macedonian Mixture and Mixture #10
  6. jguss

    What's your favorite painting?

    I like puzzles, and this one by Piero della Francesca has no particularly satisfying answer.
  7. jguss

    Time To Give Up The Hobby

    Now there’s a name to reckon with. I have Lamb’s letters, and his writings & sayings are studded with many terrific quotes. Here are just a few: My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found...
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    1930's Barling Tobacconist's Display Case

    My fault for trying to post while on an airplane. Or blame Delta, that’s my plan.
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    1930's Barling Tobacconist's Display Case

    I think that ship has sailed.
  10. jguss

    1930's Barling Tobacconist's Display Case

    I think that ship has sailed.
  11. jguss

    PAD 3 New Ashtons but They All Have Something Weird About Them

    That depends. If you have RVM it’s a huge loss instead of gain.
  12. jguss

    PAD 3 New Ashtons but They All Have Something Weird About Them

    It’s real enough, but rare: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/774301
  13. jguss

    PAD 3 New Ashtons but They All Have Something Weird About Them

    You just thought it was the same. The corolias effect triggers RVM (reversal of vision metamorphopsia).
  14. jguss

    PAD 3 New Ashtons but They All Have Something Weird About Them

    The coriolis effect strikes again. Will the smoke from that pipe circle clockwise?
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    1930's Barling Tobacconist's Display Case

    Yup. I was just curious if there was something else not in the seller photos that was indicative of dating. Maybe a newspaper with a headline about FDR elected to a second term, or a copy of Action #1, or a cutter top tin of 3 Nuns with a tobacco tax stamp affixed. Or maybe a somewhat soiled...
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