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  1. jguss

    I'm Bloody Livid: Amazon Refuse to Sell Me a Set of Kitchen Knives.

    Don’t forget tampers. In the wrong hands they can snuff out more than a bowl of tobacco.
  2. jguss

    I'm Bloody Livid: Amazon Refuse to Sell Me a Set of Kitchen Knives.

    I’m fuzzy on this. If credit history is the issue it should affect your ability to buy anything, not just knives. But if you’re using debit cards with a positive balance on Amazon why should creditworthiness matter? Are kitchen knives a controlled product in the UK? Are these particular...
  3. jguss

    Lester Young Repeats as USA Slow Smoking Champion!

    Congratulations Les! I tried to get Les to let me take a selfie of us when we were together yesterday but when he found out I’d won the bag of matches in every slow smoke I’d competed in he demurred. And after brief reflection he scoffed. I’d never heard anyone scoff out loud before. It...
  4. jguss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    These specimens are even more highly prized, representing the highly innovative, if somewhat slobbery, OD(ie) line of pipes.
  5. jguss

    Chicago 2024: Who's going?

  6. jguss

    Chicago 2024: Who's going?

  7. jguss

    Chicago 2024: Who's going?

    Sorry about your roomie’s issues Les but I really look forward to seeing you there.
  8. jguss

    Chicago 2024: Who's going?

    Yes, and even better the guy who came in last had to be the chauffeur.
  9. jguss

    Killer Straight Grain Barling Re-stem

    Beautiful pipe George, and irrefutable evidence that post-transition pipes can be stunners. Ironically if this is anything to go by the new owners of the company took the Straight Grain designation much more seriously than the Barling family often did. And I agree with Al. Your stem is a big...
  10. jguss

    Italian-Made Cased Meer Mystery

    I hate to tell you but nowadays that’s called grooming.
  11. jguss

    Italian-Made Cased Meer Mystery

    Augusto Vacarri was one of Art Vandelay’s many pseudonyms. By some estimates Vandelay’s workshop, under one name or another, was responsible for fully half of the greatest meerschaum pipes produced in the 19th century.
  12. jguss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Jesus, seeing this makes me feel much better about the $1100 I spent on a Grabow. At least the nomenclature on my pipe is legible.
  13. jguss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Very cool pipe. It's actually possible to date it (or at any rate the label) to a pretty narrow range. Henry Perkins was at 59 High Street, St Giles through 1886, not appearing at the 179 Tottenham Court Road address until the 1887 edition of the London City Directory. At that point he was...
  14. jguss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Don’t do that. If you apologize I have to apologize and where will it all end? If everyone behaved nicely this forum would implode and we’d all have to spend more time working. None of us want that.
  15. jguss

    Interesting Completed Ebay Auctions - British Pipes

    Picking between mockery and pity is a bit of a Morton’s fork (and if you’ve ever been forked by Morton you know how painful that can be) but if forced to choose I’ll take the former every time.
  16. jguss

    I Recently Found Out to my Dismay

    You would think knowing in advance would put you on your guard. Spoiler alert: it doesn’t.
  17. jguss

    I Recently Found Out to my Dismay

    I use a Softy ® bit if I’m going to be smoking someone else’s pipe and even then play it safe by vomiting afterward.
  18. jguss

    Can’t Wait For April…2044

    Wow man, this thread is beginning to develop a Haight-Ashbury vibe.
  19. jguss

    Wolf Pipe, Made In England

    Good enough for me. The wheels are in motion. Should take a month or so to hear back.
  20. jguss

    Wolf Pipe, Made In England

    It seems unlikely to me. That number was assigned between April 1 and July 10 of 1914, and I think Wolf was still working for other pipe manufacturers at that time. I gather the stamping on your pipe is faint and difficult to read. Does the OP (or anyone else reading this) have a Wolf Bros...
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