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    Tips on Packing Bone-Dry Tobacco?

    I’m wondering if there’s anything advice out there because almost none of the recommended packing methods can apply to very dry tobacco. I know keeping it simple is advise. Still…
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    Parker Stem with Dunhill Workmanship?

    I’m just curious about these Parkers I see online and what the Dunhill workmanship on the stems tell us about when the pipe was made and about the quality of the pipes. Was Parker using the finest material for its stems or just putting the work in?
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    Georged School of Stem Identification

    I tried to follow what I could gather from posts here to guess that this is either a good copy or a genuine Dunhill stem. I picked this pipe up for about 60$. The hole where the missing white dot goes is rather small though. But the other aspects of the stem look genuine? I did some sanding and...
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    Is this Michel Pipe a Charatan?

    I don’t have this yet. It was pretty inexpensive. Supposedly it was made for a shop called Maison Michel of NC. It’s just stamped MICHEL DELUXE MADE IN LONDON ENGLAND This is unsmoked and has been in storage for 40 years (supposedly). I’m a bit skeptical. It doesn’t look like a Lane Charatan...
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    More Questions About Quality Stems

    This is a topic that’s been widely covered but I wondered if people might be willing to go over some of this ground again. My questions start here: What are the features of the very highest quality vulcanite factory stems? I’m curious about English pipes throughout history and whether standards...
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    What’s a Grabow, Alex?

    I bought this pipe for its beautiful blast (seller’s pics, not mine) believing pipedia’s info which, according to this article, is wrong: Wimbledon Pipes : The History & Facts - https://baccypipes.wordpress.com/2017/02/22/wimbledon-pipes-the-history-facts/Wimbledon Pipes : The History & Facts -...
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    Who Knows Bari?

    So, Bari pipes. Seeing as how this company was started by one of the most famous pipe makers in the world, and that there are very specifically named lines and even numbered pipe shapes, one would think someone, somewhere, would have information on how to date the things. This seems important as...
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    Early Kaywoodie Thorn w/Catalogue

    I was going to put this in the Kaywoodie group but since it came with so much cool stuff I thought maybe people would be interested more widely. So, also, would this be early 30s? Anyone?
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    Has Anyone Ever Overcome a (Latakia) Tobacco Resistance/Allergy?

    I find that my mouth experiences several days of feeling burnt after smoking English tobaccos. It could be the Latakia or the orientals (or something else). This has happened with Skiff, Timms English 1000, Petersons 965, and others. I quite like Latakia. My questions is this: has anyone here...
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    About Sandblasting…

    This post will be meandering but I’m kind of interested in what various perspectives we might hear/read from the members on the history and art of sandblasting. I read the pipedia article on the topic, which touches on how Dunhill purportedly invented and developed the technique and what goes...
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    Wet vs. Dry Aromatics?

    Are there aromatics that are good to smoke dry? If so, which ones? I’ve seen people recommend smoking Macbaren Vanilla Cream dry. Is that true? There are some aromatics that have to be smoked wet I think. So, what’s the difference in terms of categories? I feel like there needs to be a general...
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    Patent Sasieni Date Range?

    Hi Folks! I got this handsome Sasieni Fantail 93 from Reborn. The stamps are hard to show but there’s a football shaped “Made in London” on the left side where the bowl meets the shank and then Sasieni over Fantail. On the right there’s London Made and the shape # 93 followed by “PATD-170067”...
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    Charatan Double Comfort?

    I see some comments here and there disparaging these Lane era stems. I just thought I’d ask. So, do some people here like them? I’ve seen some strongly negative opinions for sure. There must have been a reason for their existence?
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    Who Loves Dan Aromatics?

    I notice that Dan aromatics get either very few reviews on Tobacco Reviews, or poor reviews. Being an American in Japan, I’m rather limited in products and I do see quite a lot of Dan stuff on the market here, some of it even unavailable in the States. I’m just wondering who, besides the...
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    Musical Nights in Saigon

    This would have been the very early stages of the war: a Saigonese, singing American style rock, gave it up after marrying a Vietnamese army doctor, ended up a refugee in the U.S., never told her kids she was a singer way back, having it all discovered recently and her music finally compiled by...
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    Upset by Intolerance to Latakia

    I resisted concluding that I have an intolerance to Latakia. I blamed my chemical mouth burn on side effects to medications. I continued to buy and jar great blends of English tobacco, which I love. But I finally went back to trying some straight Virginias and even some aromatics and: problem...
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    What are Quality French Estates?

    I’ve spent the last year getting into pipe-smoking. Like some people ‘round these parts, I love looking at pipes, especially at estate pipes, and I own a few (but not many). After spending every day studying pipes (for fun), I feel like I know who made great English, American, Italian, and...
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    Autochrome Photography

    I really want to get a book of autochrome photographs. It’s almost like the more cumbersome and impossible the process, the more interesting the results! I know that’s not true. We gain a lot through the ease of technology. Anyway, these ARE beautiful and they contain some ordinary blokes with...
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    1920 BBB Own Make

    This was a sort of birthday present. I’d seen this on yahoo auction Japan for many months for about 110$. I couldn’t justify spending the dough as money is tight for us but I did get cash for my b-day (55yrs 7/13, yeah do we still want to remember at this point?). This is a 1920 BBB Own Make. I...
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    Question for the Comoy’s Mavens

    So, Would this C.B. Perkins be a Comoy’s pipe from the 30s? Another period? Or no way to tell?
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