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  1. olderthandirt

    Information Request: Caminetto J.N.C.C. 2003

    Found this at a local antique store. Haven't purchased it yet as I'm trying to determine its value. No box or sock, the pipe has clearly never been smoked. One side of the pipe reads: "Caminetto J.N.C.C. 2003". The other side of the pipe reads: "Hand Made Cucciago-Italy". What I have come up...
  2. olderthandirt

    Pipes and Cigars, 1st Class Enablers (-:

    UPS just left, happy dance dispensed with and I settle down to open my box from P&C. Bit different packing this time around, all the contents were neatly wrapped in butcher paper bundles. Nice touch. Unwrapping the various bundles, smiling with each one, there's the Frog Morton I've been...
  3. olderthandirt

    Smoking a Pipe: Hobby or Life Choice

    Quite often I see the word hobby used in connection with pipe smoking. Has me curious. Collecting and refurbishing pipes or collecting and analyzing older tobacco blends are pursuits that I can easily understand as hobbies. But the day to day smoking of a pipe referred to as a hobby causes me...
  4. olderthandirt

    Must Read New Article from Neill Archer Roan

    Just up today from Neills "A Passion for Pipes" Is smoking your pipe important to you?
  5. olderthandirt

    Help Identify: MLC / Imperial Oom Paul ?

    Simple block letters, MLC, inside an oval on the shank and on the Sterling band. Somewhat ornate crown on the other side of the shank with the word Imperial under it in simple block letters in a slight arc. Hallmarks appear to be Birmingham, either 1917 or 1992 as best I can tell when compared...
  6. olderthandirt

    Refub: Imperial Oom Paul

    Purchased on a lark from an estate sale for the princely sum of $4.50usd the cake was built up so much that what remained for a "chamber" was about 3/8" across. The cake opens back up about 1/2" from the bottom of the bowl creating a cavern of sorts. There was unburnt tobacco in this cavern...
  7. olderthandirt

    Egads! Washington Smoke Antis Cross the Line!

    Initiative to make tobacco use and possession outright illegal in the State of Washington. While I'd like to think this proposed initiative doesn't have any legs just the effort made is scary. Not only scary regarding the tobacco but also in the attack on personal liberties and freedoms that it...
  8. olderthandirt

    TAD order and Stonehaven Lottery

    Did anyone else place an order with Pipes and Cigars yesterday? Was planning on an order anyway but the Stonehaven Lottery promo they had sure helped decide where this months order was going to come from! 2x 50g - PS Escudo 2x 50g - Peterson Irish Flake 2x 2oz - Cornell & Diehl Briar Fox 2x...
  9. olderthandirt

    Decatur Lazy Susan Estate Find

    Went to an estate sale this morning and it was finally my turn to score. Saw a pipe stand with a cob in it and something in the humidor. Snagged it up and smiled at the $10 price written on the tape. Decatur Lazy Susan pipe stand, 12 slots, in as close to new condition as a body could hope for...
  10. olderthandirt

    Savinelli Dry System 2614, Thanks baskerville!

    Brother baskerville did a bit of herd thinning a little while back and one of the pipes he had up for consideration was Savinelli "Dry System" 2614. I did not consider this pipe for a moment. I immediately purchased the thing! IIRC Savinelli changed their shape numbering system from 4...
  11. olderthandirt

    Earthquake in Turkey; Life Triumphs

    Just caught videos of rescuers carrying a 2 week old baby, alive, from the rubble it had been trapped in for 2 days. Stopped me immediately and made me smile. Carry on....
  12. olderthandirt

    Pipes and Cigars spelled Customer First!

    I know it's been said many times before and it's a gonna git said again; Pipes and Cigars understands and damn sure practices the concept of Customer Satisfaction. I placed an order during the most recent Sam Gawith frenzy for St. James Flake. Surprising how much I enjoy this particular blend...
  13. olderthandirt

    Tobacco From the Reading Corner

    I read bits and pieces from "Pipe and Pouch" as the mood strikes. The following from Kipling always makes me smile. THE BETROTHED. "_YOU MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN ME AND YOUR CIGAR._" Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout, For things are running crossways, and Maggie and I are out. We...
  14. olderthandirt

    Wally Frank Monkey Pipe

    One of several pipes that I've kept an eye open for is a Monkey pipe. No reason other than they crack me up. Won this Wally Frank on eBay last week for a song, $8.75 plus ship. I don't think there could have been more than 2 or 3 bowls smoked in the thing, appeared to be virgin wood at the...
  15. olderthandirt

    Have You a Blend You Hate to Love?

    Black House. Too damn tasty. I used to enjoy the occasional bowl of Spilmans Mixture quite a lot. Worked well in a cob. I used to go back and forth between Squadron Leader and PS English Oriental Supreme quite a lot. Those smoked well in everything. Then I popped a tin of Black House. Too...
  16. olderthandirt

    What defines the "Navy Flake"?

    I asked this in the thread "Can we talk Navy Flake", What makes a navy flake a navy flake? Tantamount to a thread jacking (my apologies rafterman) so this thread is born. Previous searches never got me an answer, today I'm no closer. Several on-line dictionaries offer the same definition of...
  17. olderthandirt

    SG products now in at Pipes and Cigars

    And again gentleman, start your engines and fire up those credit cards, Pipes and Cigars has updated their Samuel Gawith products. I just ordered 1lb St. James Flake and 4oz 1792, bulk, as well as some G&H DFS. Of course I waited to give a shout out until I had mine (-; Decent selection just...
  18. olderthandirt

    Black Cat Cigar Company - Would you recommend?

    Has any one ever dealt with http://www.blackcatcigars.com/pages/about-us? Always nice to hear of others experiences before adding another vendor to the stable.
  19. olderthandirt

    Beware the "Zone"

    Loaded my Pete 317 with Irish Flake, cubed, last night in preparation for this mornings wake-up bowl. And a great smoke it was proving to be, until I entered the "Zone". Regular, faint wisps of smoke curling up from the bowl, the taste and sensation of the baccy in mouth and nose, the nicotine...
  20. olderthandirt

    Which tobacco to open next?

    Been working at trimming down the number of different baccy's I had open at once, I don't know why really, seemed like the thing to do. Anyway the smoking cabinet is getting a little sparse now as it's gone from 25 open jars to 15 (-; So I was wondering what ya'll would do in this situation...