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    About Dunhill Pipe Workshop (1910 and now).

    This is very thorough information, thank you Forciori!
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    Savinelli Bing's Favorite

    Thats a beauty!
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    Ashton Weird Stain

    yes it does look like gentian violet or the old skool ink in the bic pens i used to use in college
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    Ashton Weird Stain

    Here it is
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    Ashton Weird Stain

    Anyone have Jim Craig’s email address?
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    Ashton Weird Stain

    It is a tan shell not dark , but i think the adhesive was dark. Ive been through 40 qtips already soaked in everclear.
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    Ashton Weird Stain

    EDIT: Fixed Capitalization in Title (See Rule 9) - Bob I have an Ashton LX Old Church Billiard that I bought from Marty Pulver. Its an excellent smoking pipe. I love it. But i noticed that when I run a qtip or pipe cleaner through the shank, it comes out purple. Like a really deep inky purple...
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    Peterson System Deluxe Can't Pass Pipecleaner

    Ill see if I can my bore light down in there and take a pic and post it.
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    Peterson System Deluxe Can't Pass Pipecleaner

    yes its a silver mount and I do remove it from time to time, just cant push it all the way through. But I guess its comforting to know its by design and not a defect. Thanks.
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    Peterson System Deluxe Can't Pass Pipecleaner

    I just bought a marvelous 20FP and its a great smoker. Only thing is I can t seem to pass a pipe cleaner through the stem, even if I unscrew the aluminum condersor it wont go through. I shined a very bright light and saw where the air hole upstream ends and its very small. Is this by design or a...
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    Pipe Smoking Study, It Doesn't Look Good.

    My father will turn 80 next year, other than a slow growing prostate cancer , he is rather healthy and his mind is sharp. He is a life long pipe smoker, but does so, and with everything else in moderation. Perhaps that is the key? He does get exercise and moderates his food intake. I have never...
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    Pipe Smoking Study, It Doesn't Look Good.

    I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I came across this study done by the Journal of the National Cancer Institute in 2004, its a pretty big study, cohorts were 138,307 men over 26 years from US, Denmark, Scotland and there was a direct correlation between pipe smoking and esophageal...
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    US Customs and FDA are Attacking Pipe Smokers

    First of all, the pipes I wanted were not avaialble from Domestic suppliers, second, the prices were very reasonable.
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    US Customs and FDA are Attacking Pipe Smokers

    SO all in all I finally received the pipes after paying a $79 duty fee. Never again!
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    US Customs and FDA are Attacking Pipe Smokers

    So check this out. I put in a huge order of four pipes with Bollito Pipe Tabaccheria in Torina Italy. The owner, David Bollito is a great guy and answered all my emails quickly. US Customs now is holding my shipment at Erlinger airport at the DHL terminal. They wanted my SSN, the lists of...