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🌟 🎄 🎅 The UnOfficial Official 2025 PM Secret Santa Thread 🎅 🎄 🌟
Bottom lister here. Still gathering components.- TheIronMonkey
- Post #1,255
- Forum: General Discussion
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Major Mess-up
It sounds like you might’ve held the stummel (the cob) and twisted the stem, torquing the shank with it. In the future, hold the shank and twist the stem out. You might wish to use some white Elmer’s Glue to coat the outer portion of the shank that gets inserted to the hole of the cob for a...- TheIronMonkey
- Post #3
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
I had only taken a cursory glance and didn’t even look closely at the logo when I figured I wouldn’t even be in the running. I was unaware that one dots were made after 1939.- TheIronMonkey
- Post #4,902
- Forum: British Pipes
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
The blue dots looked too blue, but treasurepipes’s photos are so universally awful, you can’t really go by the photos.- TheIronMonkey
- Post #4,899
- Forum: British Pipes
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Show Us Your Savinelli Pipes!
I seem to recall “Punto Oro Gold” is priced lower than a plain “Punto Oro”—therefore a lower tiered pipe—so I would question that info as well. I could be mistaken. I probably have a list on my computer that has the tiers laid out and will check later. The silver version looks like it’s from...- TheIronMonkey
- Post #461
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes
I looked at that set recently, but had earmarked funds for other stuff with Black Friday sales approaching. I dismissed bidding on it partially because of this, but I was also thinking this would sell much higher since I’ve seen single uncased one dots selling for 1k. In a way, I would’ve...- TheIronMonkey
- Post #4,897
- Forum: British Pipes
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Show Us Your Savinelli Pipes!
“They also said the Gold series is the line from which the Punto Oros descended.” I don’t believe this is accurate. More like the reverse. The Punto Oro line first appeared in 1958 after the factory was built. Initially there was a smooth red finish and dark sandblasted; the 18k Gold pipes with...- TheIronMonkey
- Post #456
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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What Are You Drinking? December 2025
Having a Polar Seltzer Ginger Lime Mule.- TheIronMonkey
- Thread
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Food & Drink
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***What Are You Smoking, November 2025?***
Having Savinelli 140⁰ in a Savinelli Punto Oro 1002 Billiard, circa the very first year that line was produced: 1958. As a fan of both Savinelli and Brebbia pipes, I was incredibly fortunate and excited to have acquired this very special pipe. It’s most unusual because the Savinelli Shield logo...- TheIronMonkey
- Post #3,852
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Pipe Shape Subtleties........
The Bill Burney pipe illustrations of various pipe shapes that can be seen on Pipedia are a great resource.- TheIronMonkey
- Post #8
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking, November 2025?***
I was feeling pretty sleepy after having two helpings of Thanksgiving dinner. I sort of napped a bit, but needed to wake up to take advantage of a Black Friday sale—took care of that a little after 11:00 pm EST and am now having Cornell & Diehl Engine #382 in a Bavarian Hunter with deer art on...- TheIronMonkey
- Post #3,516
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Show Off Your GBD Pipes (and 2nds)
As seen above (and below in shots I just took), the only stamps are the GBD logo on the left side of the shank (and left side of the stem), and “MADE IN FRANCE” on the underside of the shank near the stem interface. There’s nothing stamped on the right side of the shank, just a small fill...- TheIronMonkey
- Post #266
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Show Off Your James Upshall & Tilshead Pipes
I posted this James Upshall Empire Series Old England FH (Freehand—Rhodesian?) Magnum with Cumberland stem in a WAYS thread in 2024, but this might be a better place to archive for posterity.- TheIronMonkey
- Post #120
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Show Off Your GBD Pipes (and 2nds)
I recently scored this cool French GBD Rhodesian (it has no number stamps). The previous owner thought it might’ve been a shop display pipe because of the 1.25" diameter chamber (it was unsmoked at the time—the owner tried smoking it once and couldn’t keep it lit). I was expecting the pipe to be...- TheIronMonkey
- Post #264
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes