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  1. guylesss

    Cellaring Question

    So, basically, you're down to the very last 25 years of your supply. (Just my pure envy speaking here.)
  2. guylesss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Just in case you don't--or anyone else who's interested doesn't--have a copy of the Christmas 1923 edition of "About Smoke," this small illustration on page 19 looks spot on (if you'll forgive the pun)--
  3. guylesss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Please do report back when it arrives, and even better when you've returned it to its former glory (Dunhills with deluxe stems are particularly appealing). I've already got one particularly challenging '20s Dunhill restoration project looming on my current dance card--And that's all the...
  4. guylesss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Early on, I too was avidly following this one--more out of curiosity than anything, and with many of the same questions as you did. The condition of the rim was my first question. My second--since early editions of About Smoke offered amber (as well as tortoiseshell and ivory) mouthpieces as...
  5. guylesss

    Ho from Italy!!!

    Benvenuto da Brooklyn! I lived in Venezia for a decade tanti anni fa. Where are you?
  6. guylesss

    What Is Your GoTo Lighter?

    Maybe I'm taking brand loyalty (not to mention the whole vintage thing) a bit overboard, but my favorite, used daily, is a 1960s Dunhill Aldunil--a model made in France that might have only been available at the Paris store. At least if cleaned regularly and fed a diet of Dunhill butane, it's...
  7. guylesss

    Others Experiencing Long Delivery Times From Europe?

    Not exactly back to normal. But at least for packages from the UK, to my part of the world, and for now (and for me), things do seem to be significantly improving-- two packages delivered yesterday (3/5 weeks in transit), two finally moving my way within the USPS domestic system, scanned last...
  8. guylesss

    Should I Smoke This?

    Admittedly, a distant second best to having some long cellared Dunbar (in perfect condition) of my own, and deciding last night was the night. But still a real pleasure to see something so good being enjoyed. Bravo!
  9. guylesss

    Others Experiencing Long Delivery Times From Europe?

    33 days for delivery of an Esterval order to NYC, a pipe from the UK (tracking, signed for) stuck in limbo at Langley HWDC since 1 June (3 weeks and counting), and two other UK parcels (without tracking despite my pleas)-- presumably still en route--respectively, since 18 April and 26 May. Then...
  10. guylesss

    Balkan Sobranie Tin Dating

    Wow. The real thing. Yenidje! A grail among unicorns. Please do share your experience if you do decide to open it.
  11. guylesss

    You Call This Restored?

    You should have seen it before. Or heck, maybe these are the "Before". . ..
  12. guylesss

    So It Has Come To This.....

    Can't argue with the price. Or free delivery.
  13. guylesss

    Stripped the Finish Off This Tsuge

    You are a brave man. . .but beautiful wood, excellent work, and a really good call!
  14. guylesss

    First Esterval’s Purchase

    It may be some consolation to know that Germany seems to be doing consistently better with parcels bound for the US (slow but certain), than the UK--overdue, missing or lost--who knows? In addition to a 1926 Dunhill bent that's not been scanned since taken to a rural post office (19 days ago), I...
  15. guylesss

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

    A circa 2006 tin of Nightcap (from the first months Orlik took over production from Murray--its $7.99 price sticker intact). This in a Dunhill "millennium" 4103 billiard with a wide silver band.
  16. guylesss

    First Esterval’s Purchase

    It is a wait: my order arrived 10 June after 33 days in actual transit to New York (with very sporadic scanning--DHL/USPS, same $45 fee). About 12 days within Germany before it was processed at Frankfurt airport. Then nothing for 3 weeks until it turned up at Newark airport (not JFK). Then two...
  17. guylesss

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

    This morning I'm finishing off the last of the 2007 Caravan in a "well-smoked" 1925 Dunhill 36 Bruyere (with a replaced stem and a plain, non-AD silver-plate band). The question to now be faced is whether to continue with vintage Pease, or try my first tin of Spark Plug?
  18. guylesss

    Showoff Your Dunhill Pipes Here!

    Very possibly 1951. One of the fun facts about Dunhills is that they can often be very precisely dated by their nomenclature, and this has been the subject of considerable study by various experts (including my own favorite, John Loring--who published a 75pp book devoted to nothing else). This...
  19. guylesss

    Oops. I Did It Again.

    Me too, alas. As Oscar Wilde put it, "I can resist anything except temptation."
  20. guylesss

    Showoff Your Dunhill Pipes Here!

    An original "inner tube" with its "flange"--one of Dunhill's famous patents (which expired around the end of the 1950s). Most people threw them out, so they've become fairly uncommon (and also offer a hint a pipe may have seen little use). I happen to be an "inner tube" fan, myself. Before...
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