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    What are You Reading Now?

    Some other books about Faulkner that might be of interest are THE FALKNERS OF MISSISSIPPI (Murry Falkner,1967); FAULKNER's OXFORD (Herman Taylor,1990); WILLIAM FAULKNER OF OXFORD (Webb/Green, 1965); and the wonderful TALKING ABOUT WILLIAM FAULKNER (Wolff/Watkins, 1996)...all of these mention his...
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    1985 Photos of the Capitello Factory/Pipe Collectors Shows

    OK, this was a team effort getting these photos here...Al Jones was gracious enough to scan and post these here, and I'll give some IDs. The first series of photos are of Enzo Galluzzo hard at work at the Capitello factory, north of Milan. Enzo's agent Corrado Ripamonti picked us up (Rich...
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    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2025?***

    Balkan Sasieni in a 1966 Dunhill Shell #593 saddle billiard/Dublin hybred.
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    Anyone Else Lose Their Favorites on Their SP Accounts?

    Thanks Wilford; just checked my account and my favorites are back as before. My wish-list is still missing, however. Maybe if they've been sold (a lot of these for years now) you can't really "wish" for them anymore?
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    Anyone Else Lose Their Favorites on Their SP Accounts?

    Yes, all my favorites and wishlists are gone...may have happened when they updated their site a couple of months ago. I hated to see them go as I used them for reference (size variations, interesting models, etc), but I suppose they took up a lot of memory.
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    What are You Reading Now?

    Re-reading D.H. Lawrence's THE PLUMED SERPENT. A vilified novel, but some of his very best writing.
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    What Are You Listening to? - July, 2025

    AND THIS IS MAXWELL STREET; Rooster Blues R2641 CD
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    What Are You Listening to? - July, 2025

    Big Jack Johnson; THE OIL MAN. Earwig 4910CD
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    What Are You Listening to? - July, 2025

    Big Joe Williams; I GOT WILD. Delmark DE-767 CD
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    What Are You Listening to? - July, 2025

    Busy AM: first off to UPS in one direction, and to the post office in the opposite (this is on the bus), then to the grocery store and (thankfully) liquor store on foot. Settled into chair this afternoon and loaded CD player with: Robert Nighthawk; PROWLING WITH THE NIGHTHAWK. Document...
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    How Can I Contact Kevin Godbee?

    The photos are on their way to Al Jones, who has volunteered to scan and post them. Fred and I used to correspond a lot in the late '70s/early '80s...one of the cornerstones of my pipe education (and I loved his nicely hand-written letters!). I hope they are both doing very well.
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    How Can I Contact Kevin Godbee?

    I was able to contact Kevin a couple years ago re: the Rich Lewis estate but now can find no way to do so on this site. The reason is I finally found a series of snapshots (24 in all) that I took at the Capitello factory when I was there in 1985 with Rich Lewis and Pete Siegel and thought they...
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    Sasieni Date / Patent Clarification

    Well, I'm missing something here. I've read this thread over a few times, have gone to Pipedia and Pipephil, Hacker's account in his book, and just plain googled "When did Sasieni's Ruff Root finish first appear": the AI answer (I guess), was 1986. REBORN PIPES shows a couple they worked on...
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    Barling Shape Numbers...Yet Again.

    OK...it appears that there are TWO Barling pages on the Ye Olde Briars site. The BARLING page remains as I have seen it in the past, but when I typed in BARLING's MAKE it brought me to a different page...the one detailed above. I also did a bit of looking into the #217/#271 question and found...
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    Barling Shape Numbers...Yet Again.

    Browsing on the internet brought me to the Ye Olde Briars.com site where it looks like the Barling page has changed; gone are the example photos of selected shapes, and added is a very complete looking (?) list and description of Nichols-era shape numbers: two- and three-digit U.S. numbers, and...
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    ***What Are You Smoking, July 2025?***

    Black Mallory in a Ser Jacopo LI taper billiard w/factory silver ring.
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    What Are You Listening to? - July, 2025

    ROBERT JOHNSON-KING OF THE DELTA BLUES SINGERS; Columbia CL 1654 LP
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    What Are You Listening to? - July, 2025

    10 YEARS IN MEMPHIS 1927-1937. Yazoo LP L-1002
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    What Are You Listening to? - July, 2025

    FRANK STOKES DREAM: THE MEMPKIS BLUES 1927-1931. Yazoo LP L-1008
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    All Things Come To An End

    Maybe now you'll find time for work like THE WHITE HAT...I liked that one.