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  1. Ziggywm

    ***What Are You Smoking, January 2021?***

    Wow, Ashdigger, that looks like an old one.
  2. Ziggywm

    Fribourg & Treyer - Cut Blended Plug

    Here is a F&T ashtray, made by Wedgewood Pottery in GB in honor of the shop. I think I found it on Ebay years ago. The next shot is of my F&T pipe, a pot stamped "Reject". The grain is good and have never found a flaw. Maybe someone knows who made pipes for them. It has the feel of GBD or Comoy.
  3. Ziggywm

    Fribourg & Treyer - Cut Blended Plug

    PipeIT, thanks for the attachments! Great stuff. I had read - online - most of this history before I was in London in 2016 and was an motivation to look up the old shop when there. There is more detail in the 1920 book by George Evans of sales records, pictures, snuff jars, etc. You might be...
  4. Ziggywm

    Lane Era Charatan's Make 'Special" 4 Extra Large

    Beautiful pipe. In the years I worked at Diebel's (1970s), and we carried Charatan's, I never saw this shape. A keeper!!
  5. Ziggywm

    Fribourg & Treyer - Cut Blended Plug

    That one us not in the 1920 book. Great shot! Does it give a year? The door on the right is where the Tryer family lived for generations. Believe its to the stairs that go upstairs and the family quarters.
  6. Ziggywm

    Do You Have an Aversion to Bulldogs?

    Here is a Bulldog fancy I turned for a friend several years ago. Actually, I find a Billard the most difficult shape to do really well. Its the subtle curves, believe it or not, that are hard to get just right.
  7. Ziggywm

    Do You Have an Aversion to Bulldogs?

    This is a Squashed Tomatoe plus Lovat I made for a friend Christmas time. He decided he didn't want it. I don't think you'd be interested in it.
  8. Ziggywm

    Do You Have an Aversion to Bulldogs?

    My Blue Riband (curved stem) and Tradition. I inherited both pipes from a pipe smoking buddy who was one of my professors in college.
  9. Ziggywm

    Do You Have an Aversion to Bulldogs?

    Some very nice BDs. Great collection.
  10. Ziggywm

    Do You Have an Aversion to Bulldogs?

    Does this answer your question?
  11. Ziggywm

    Lane Era Charatan's Make 'Special" 4 Extra Large

    After reading the articles you kindly sent the mystery of the number '4' being the only number stamped on the shank makes sense. In one of the catalogs you posted its a size number for extra large. There is no shape number. I feel certain it was made for the English market. Makes me wonder...
  12. Ziggywm

    Lane Era Charatan's Make 'Special" 4 Extra Large

    After reading the articles you kindly sent the mystery of the number '4' being the only number stamped on the shank makes sense. In one of the catalogs you posted its a size number for extra large. There is no shape number. I feel certain it was made for the English market. Makes me wonder...
  13. Ziggywm

    Lane Era Charatan's Make 'Special" 4 Extra Large

    Thank you very much for your research! Oh, I'm never disappointed in a pipe surrounding pedigree; How they smoke is more important. I haven't smoked this one, yet, so I can't comment on that. I have plenty of pipes in the rotation now. However, I know that Charatan used and aged top quality wood...
  14. Ziggywm

    Fribourg & Treyer - Cut Blended Plug

    The review, a very good one, got me to searching my tobacco stash and therein I found a tin I laid down 10 years ago! The flakes were laid out nicely, none broken, smelling of plum and dark fruit, but a natural tobacco smell from pressed, aged tobacco, not from a top dressing. The flakes were...
  15. Ziggywm

    WTF Anti-Smoking Ad

    I am happy you could share a pipe with him. Nice. And I bet he enjoyed your friendship. Read Eric Hoffer's: The True Believer. Maybe you have. Its old, but still relevant. More recently, you might want to watch Jordan Peterson's lectures on YouTube. He is a clinical psychologist who has studied...
  16. Ziggywm

    WTF Anti-Smoking Ad

    A birthday present that now hangs in the man cave. Sigbed by Jack.. Says it all
  17. Ziggywm

    WTF Anti-Smoking Ad

    Well our man caves are really quite elegant - no manure. On a serious note I don't "out" people when asked for confidentiality. Some people don't want to fight the tyranny of the collective. For me, I could give a shit who knows I enjoy cigars and my pipes.
  18. Ziggywm

    Lane Era Charatan's Make 'Special" 4 Extra Large

    After reading some more Perfection was a Lane addition that started mid-60s while the "heat" toward Dunhill fueled the Perfection joke. I need to do more research. I just have it that with Lane the classifications grew.
  19. Ziggywm

    Lane Era Charatan's Make 'Special" 4 Extra Large

    Thanks! I will research it more. And, it could be this pipe was for the English market so not stamped with the 'L'.
  20. Ziggywm

    WTF Anti-Smoking Ad

    I am aware that the "Antis", or what I call "Puritans Resurrected" - people who are afraid that others are having a good time and are here to stomp it out - trigger us. What triggers me is lumping pipes and cigars in with cigs and cooking the books on second-hand smoke. Regardless, we have all...
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