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  1. Briar Lee

    Pure Prepared Salad Mustard

    French’s mustard was invented for the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair and even today the real stuff is made in Springfield Missouri. When I was a kid French’s came in glass jars that read Pure Prepared Salad Mustard, and I wondered what impure unprepared mustard was and who would use any kind of...
  2. Briar Lee

    Benchmade Means a Marxman

    I just bought this Marxman Benchmade grade A size for $20 delivered, likely because the seller didn’t realize a Benchmade was a pre 54 Marxman. It looks to be that one is barely smoked, and should clean up to new in less than ten minutes. One of the best ways to judge condition on a Marxman...
  3. Briar Lee

    The Joy of a new Zippo

    In 1975 a brand new Storm King lighter was a $1.98 and a geniune Zippo was $3.45 at the R&S Truck Stop at Collins, Missouri. There was not a thing wrong with a Storm King. Except they were made of aluminum and weren’t a Zippo. I hit a really good lick one day and my hay hauling crew...
  4. Briar Lee

    Show Us Your Doggie Marxmans!

    Price $11 plus $8 postage. Part of the fun of accumulating the pipes of Robert Marx is he made excellently carved pipes by the finest sculptors and artists in the world for thousands of dollars, and many artistic smaller five dollar pipes, and this dog.:) These pipes sold well enough the man...
  5. Briar Lee

    Further Ruminations on Smoking Quality

    I own a half dozen nice meerschaum pipes, a whole lot of cobs, and a couple of clays. I enjoy all of them, there are no bad smoking ones, and when I smoke those I never think wow, this meer or this cob or clay is an outstanding, over the top good smoker. They seem all the same delicious...
  6. Briar Lee

    Alligator

    I didn’t know there was commercial pond raised alligator for sale. Today at noon the local BB-Q joint offered it, and I tried it. If you like fried frog legs and fried chicken nuggets you should like alligator. The owner described alligator as a cross between frog legs and chicken nuggets and...
  7. Briar Lee

    On the Importance of Beauty

    I just spent $22 on what might be the ugliest Marxman I own, yet. Marx advertised each Jumbo and Benchmade were “bench made” according to the particular piece of briar. The carver decided to make a quarter bent square shank Bulldog and the stamps were too wide for the shank, so he made...
  8. Briar Lee

    Different Break In Methods

    The Marxman pipes I favor came with these break in instructions: I’ve read where some pipe smokers load up their brand new pipes and start smoking, claiming no break in procedure at all. But I think most of us go through a little ceremonious procedure of breaking in a pipe. Bob Marx’s...
  9. Briar Lee

    Help me on Vulcanite Restoration

    Thirty or so years ago I bought a huge Bari Wiking with a sculpted vulcanite stem that marked two things in my long journey of accumulating pipes. It was my first “estate” (used) pipe and the first one I ever had a stem oxidize. There was no internet then, so I just scrubbed it with toothpaste...
  10. Briar Lee

    Ruminations on Error of Smoking Quality Theory

    About thirty or so years ago, the owner of the Lead Mine General Store held back for me a Dr Grabow Grand Duke pipe her father had misplaced behind a cabinet in the store about thirty years before. Marie White sold me that pipe for it’s price sticker of $9.95 and that pipe was the first...
  11. Briar Lee

    Dow 39,000

    A question. Of all the issues this nation fusses and squabbles over, wouldn’t right now be a good time for Congress to plan out a balanced budget? It would mean a little higher taxes and a little less spending but are we going to wait for the next recession to do it? Just sayin’.:)
  12. Briar Lee

    Ruminations on Bargain Pipes

    I have a notice set up when a Marxman comes on eBay. Any more I’m so particular it about has to be a “B” size or larger to get me motivated to want another Marxman. About a week ago a seller listed these for $25 and $10 shipping. That middle pipe is a “C” Jumbo. They arrived yesterday and...
  13. Briar Lee

    Buoy Silver by Rouseco

    $5.70 for 6 ounces, $10.50 for 16 ounces Highly Recommended Hands down the best blend for beginners I’ve tried yet. There are maybe twenty or more Silver blends of cheap pipe tobacco, and this is the first one I’ve tried. The store clerks steer veteran smokers away from the ultra mild...
  14. Briar Lee

    Four Aces Red by Republic

    $5.70 for six ounces, $10.50 per pound Highly recommended for veteran pipe smokers. This is intense Five Brothers strength tobacco Republic Brands is a major player in roll your own grade low price tobaccos. They market Drum, Bali Shag, and Top straight up cigarette tobacco taxed at $25...
  15. Briar Lee

    School me on River Access Entrances

    A few years ago the Corps of Engineers and the Missouri Department of Conservation improved and beautified the river access to to the Missouri River at Jefferson City, on the north side of the river at what used to be Cedar City. They named it Wilson Serenity Point in honor of my old friend and...
  16. Briar Lee

    Tobacco Bag Stringing 1939

    Until 1938 the USA did not have a minimum wage and hour law. But in order to alleviate what was referred to as “a third of the nation ill clothed, ill housed, and ill fed” Congress decreed the minimum wage to be 25 cents an hour, forty four hours a week. Like all our laws, it was riddled with...
  17. Briar Lee

    Tobaccoland U.S.A. at War 1943 Chesterfield Ad

    I have a good friend named James Clarence whose father was stationed in the Pacific when he was born in 1942. He can only dimly remember Harry Truman announcing we’d dropped the atom bombs and then seeing his father get off the Greyhound at Cross Timbers the next year. Those that can barely...
  18. Briar Lee

    Rouseco Buoy Gold

    Cost $6 for six ounces. Also in one pound bags for $12. Highly recommended, I’ve tried over a half dozen of the RYO grade Red, Blue, and Yellow varieties of cheap tobacco and was surprised to find every brand and style delicious, good smoking. Rouseco seems the Cadillac of the cheap...
  19. Briar Lee

    Lead Warnings

    About twenty years ago when my kids were all little I went out and bought each one an identical Zebco 33 fishing pole and when my youngest opened his, there was a label that read something like this: Warning This product contains lead, which the State of California has determined causes...
  20. Briar Lee

    Discover RYO Type Tobaccos

    For years I never considered buying any of the $10-12 a pound RYO grade “pipe tobacco” in the smoke shops. But the makers of the stuff have put one ounce “sampler packs” for just over a dollar, and I bought a few. If the package is red, it tastes like a good cigarette. If the package is...
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