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  1. guylesss

    Hello from the Heart of Dixie!

    Welcome from the waterfront of Brooklyn, NY. You'll find you are in very good and extremely knowledgeable "tobacco guy" company here. But don't be surprised if you're tempted to significantly increase your accumulation of shiny tins.
  2. guylesss

    Rare Tobacco

    Like the best French and Italian wines-- properly stored, sealed in tins or air tight mason jars-- pipe tobacco can not only last for decades but improve. Ten to fifteen years ago, it was a small cult that focused on this fact, and many in the cult were fairly loyally devoted, more often that...
  3. guylesss

    Hello from Germany

    Welcome Werner! +1 where are you in Germany? I used to come quite often.
  4. guylesss

    Tiramisu

    Apologies for chiming in so very late, and, well. . . gloating is probably the right word. But there have been so very few happy advantages to the past 21 weeks of lockdown here in New York. One of them, however, is delivery. And especially from local restaurants you've patronized for a while...
  5. guylesss

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    Finishing my last bowl of a tin of BB1938 in a Dunhill Cumberland Duke (2007). And will shortly make the weighty decision whether to open something from the Murray's era, OR my only old tin of Penzance (in a nod to all the frenzied Esoterica action and very helpful conversation here of the past...
  6. guylesss

    My 7 Day Set Of Classic Pipes Created By Jack Howell

    But now the vital question--which shape for which day of the week? Indeed, I've always been curious whether there was any logic to Dunhill or any other maker's day choices--a bruyère bulldog for Saturday, say.
  7. guylesss

    Bye Bye Nat Sherman

    A lifelong favorite, even if only occasionally visited, but I too am sad to see it go. However, even without COVID or any of the myriad other challenges to the city's "soul,"--which seems always under assault-- the fact is beloved landmark businesses in every sector have closed often and...
  8. guylesss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    If we take Loring at his word (in this case, his long and lavishly illustrated 1997 essay "ON DUNHILL TINNED TOBACCO") it sounds like it took more than ten years before the good queen made her debut as Dunhill's principal royal patron. Insofar as I vaguely understand the mysteries and somewhat...
  9. guylesss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    . . . and on that sad day of national mourning, did assemble with heavy heart the employees of Dunhill Duke Street SW, laboring together for a single purpose late into that dark night. Gathering by the yard, their costly store of gossamer white silk ventage linings and piling high the cardboard...
  10. guylesss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    While I am definitely inclined to defer to more expert opinion abundantly available here (both of seasoned collectors who've nursed pipes back from the brink sparing no expense, and the gifted craftsmen to whom we turn, to perform such miraculous resurrections). But the grudging late addition of...
  11. guylesss

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    Nice ash. Nº2s are my absolute lifelong favorite, smuggled brought home, one box at a time every time (usually from Duty Free) I went anywhere in Europe–beginning in the mid-1980s. Excellent choice!
  12. guylesss

    ***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

    2017 Esoterica Margate in a 1970s Sven Knudsen sandblasted billiard with a sterling silver army mount—specifically, a Model 14, described as a “LEIGHT WEIGHT CLASSIC” in the Dantonian Pipe Works catalogue (although mine has a slightly different, albeit equally fanciful, handout vulcanite stem...
  13. guylesss

    John Loring's 1928 Shell EK

    +1 on both scores. And what a blast.
  14. guylesss

    Greetings from Tobacco Treasures in LA

    Welcome (from Brooklyn)! And thank you for doing your part here to right the gender imbalance. You may be amused to know that not only was I born in LA (and yes, Country Bladesmith, lived in LA, or more precisely NOLA), but my mother's name was Fay. Your shop looks terrific.
  15. guylesss

    Testy Cigar Customer at Cigars International...

    Weird. Really weird. Just before my 20-weeks of pretty continuous lockdown (and counting) my girlfriend and I decided to have a romantic (throw a dart at a map) weekend in Bethlehem (where neither of us had ever been). We stayed in a cliche-charming 18th century private house on Main Street...
  16. guylesss

    Esoterica Drop

    Gracious. What were you thinking? Priorities? Surely, your wife wouldn't have minded if you'd explained why you needed to postpone your trip. . . .
  17. guylesss

    Hello Forum from Lakeland!

    Welcome from Brooklyn, Fraser. So very much hope these times are less grim in your extraordinarily beautiful part of the world. Though my mother grew up in London, she was born in Manchester and according to family legend--which might be true, my father's family came from the Isle of Man. . . .
  18. guylesss

    Esoterica Drop

    I hear you. But I have to admit I fell off my chair laughing when I phoned a "B&M" this morning in Alabama--within 24 hours of the "drop"-- and they answered the phone with the cheery salutation, "No Esoterica. . . ."
  19. guylesss

    Esoterica Drop

    Until the bubble burst in February 1637, the wildly bullish speculation of "tulip mania" swept Europe. And Brillat-Savarin writes of fortunes squandered at 19th century Paris restaurants on dishes of roast turkey stuffed with truffles. But, yes, pretty effing dumb--myself probably if...
  20. guylesss

    GL Pease WESTMINSTER

    Hands down, the most brilliant tobacco review I've ever read. And the world's loss. Anything involving taste/smell is an absolute fracking nightmare to write about competently, let alone well. And although I've spent a lifetime reading (and even trying occasionally to write) about food and...
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