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Ebay Estate Pipes Prices Seemed To Have Jumped
This is a discussion from two different viewpoints, smokers and collectors. From the smoker side, some estates can make sense. Many feel older wood smokes better than newer wood, pipes from the 1950's and earlier started with older briar, newer pipes were made from younger briar. Finding an...- recoilrob
- Post #47
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Pipe Styles Paired With Different Tobaccos?
I've taken whole flakes, and without rubbing them out, rolled them up long ways, and stuffed them down into a long narrow bowl, like a tall cylindrical poker or "chimney". Works well...- recoilrob
- Post #17
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Your First Pipe & Tobacco
About 25 years ago, during the cigar craze, a friend got a rack of pipes at a garage sale, one was an old Dunhill Cherrywood poker. Some old tobacco came with it, a mild Virginia if I recall. We tried it, I liked it and the next week went out looking for a poker and couldn't find one so I bought...- recoilrob
- Post #141
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Pipe Styles Paired With Different Tobaccos?
Yeah, the only thing that ever seemed at all plausible to me was Virginia flake in a tall, narrow bowl.- recoilrob
- Post #15
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Bulk McClelland's No.2?
About 20 years ago I was helping clean up the cigar humidor at a local B&M and found a few 5lb bags of bulk tobacco. They were going to be tossed so I took them. One was MacBaren's Mixture which I liked very much and I vacuum packed into mason jars. Another was Red Cake, all gone now. The last...- recoilrob
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- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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***What Are You Smoking?*** (November, 2019)
1997 Christmas Cheer in a 1996 Dunhill Christmas pipe, Four Calling Birds. Unfortunately the lovely tamper only fits about 1/3 down the bowl...- recoilrob
- Post #3,137
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Brebbia Pipes Reputation?
Lazarus thread, found this while researching Brebbia. Doc, I've had the exact same pipe for over 20 years, one of my favorites, I hope yours is coloring up as nice as mine.... https://www.dropbox.com/s/xrh5165n1vc9jsv/IMG_8766.JPG?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/hnr2xz81fzwgkns/IMG_8767.JPG?dl=0- recoilrob
- Post #21
- Forum: Italian Pipes
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Mac Baren Dating (Swisher Years)
Might be a bit late but will post the info for future reference. I have a sealed 9oz tin of Virginia No. 1 with the Swisher label, I purchased it 20 years ago. There is a computer generated printing on the can bottom that startes with 281094 and then gives their www.macbarens.com. Part of me...- recoilrob
- Post #6
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Discussion
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Keens Steakhouse - Pic Heavy
My Dad had a pipe a Keene's from when he did business there in the 1950's. Unfortunately they lost the records many years ago and while his pipe is still there they cannot find it. Rob- recoilrob
- Post #20
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Real Bing Crosby Owned Meerschaum
I paid a little more than $200 for a Dunhill Dress Vest pocket pipe that was owned by Nat King Cole, came with provenance. Was worth it to me...- recoilrob
- Post #17
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Smoking While Driving: Doohickeys And Thingamajigs
The ultimate....- recoilrob
- Post #29
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Found 130 Pipes At Antique Store
Hows the top on the Comoy's? If that's in good condition, "winna, winna"!- recoilrob
- Post #6
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Let's See Your Tobacco Jars
Sorry about that, where are you guys hosting your images these days? Dropbox is no longer viable.- recoilrob
- Post #18
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Let's See Your Tobacco Jars
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- Post #17
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Why You Don't Get Into A Bidding War - Episode 36,859
Back then it was important to keep Penzance and Stonehaven in the crumble cake form, hence the trays. 8oz. tins would have been cool.- recoilrob
- Post #104
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Why You Don't Get Into A Bidding War - Episode 36,859
Paid and shipped. Offered him a second tray but never heard back. It was a Buy It Now, he pulled the trigger at 2am local time, that may have been an impulse buy...- recoilrob
- Post #96
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Why You Don't Get Into A Bidding War - Episode 36,859
I tried a fishing expedition, I listed it in Home & Garden, with food and fertilizer. Ebay 1998 Penzance- recoilrob
- Post #94
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Why You Don't Get Into A Bidding War - Episode 36,859
I have been selling tins for some time now and have been caught by eBay twice in the last year, can't figure out the reasoning on who they shut down and when. I've thought about trying to list it in another category, like a food. If someone is looking for Penzance they wil have a search for...- recoilrob
- Post #77
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Pipe Shapes Outside Your Comfort Zone
I never warmed up to the pot shape, they always seemed to smoke poorly.- recoilrob
- Post #36
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Presbyterian Mixture - What do you guys think?
I have a tin of PM from the late 1990's, says it was Made in W. Germany for William P Solomon London. Is that the same as current production?- recoilrob
- Post #23
- Forum: Pipe Tobacco Reviews