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What's your favorite painting?
I like puzzles, and this one by Piero della Francesca has no particularly satisfying answer.- jguss
- Post #77
- Forum: General Discussion
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Time To Give Up The Hobby
Now there’s a name to reckon with. I have Lamb’s letters, and his writings & sayings are studded with many terrific quotes. Here are just a few: My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found...- jguss
- Post #110
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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1930's Barling Tobacconist's Display Case
My fault for trying to post while on an airplane. Or blame Delta, that’s my plan.- jguss
- Post #48
- Forum: Tobacciana History
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1930's Barling Tobacconist's Display Case
I think that ship has sailed.- jguss
- Post #45
- Forum: Tobacciana History
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1930's Barling Tobacconist's Display Case
I think that ship has sailed.- jguss
- Post #44
- Forum: Tobacciana History
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PAD 3 New Ashtons but They All Have Something Weird About Them
That depends. If you have RVM it’s a huge loss instead of gain.- jguss
- Post #27
- Forum: British Pipes
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PAD 3 New Ashtons but They All Have Something Weird About Them
It’s real enough, but rare: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/774301- jguss
- Post #25
- Forum: British Pipes
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PAD 3 New Ashtons but They All Have Something Weird About Them
You just thought it was the same. The corolias effect triggers RVM (reversal of vision metamorphopsia).- jguss
- Post #23
- Forum: British Pipes
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PAD 3 New Ashtons but They All Have Something Weird About Them
The coriolis effect strikes again. Will the smoke from that pipe circle clockwise?- jguss
- Post #13
- Forum: British Pipes
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1930's Barling Tobacconist's Display Case
Yup. I was just curious if there was something else not in the seller photos that was indicative of dating. Maybe a newspaper with a headline about FDR elected to a second term, or a copy of Action #1, or a cutter top tin of 3 Nuns with a tobacco tax stamp affixed. Or maybe a somewhat soiled...- jguss
- Post #11
- Forum: Tobacciana History
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1930's Barling Tobacconist's Display Case
Hey Jesse, now that it’s safely made its journey to the Beaver State do you see any text or marks that help date manufacture?- jguss
- Post #7
- Forum: Tobacciana History
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The Sale of Mac Baren Proved Costly
True, but if relevancy is the standard this forum will become a wasteland.- jguss
- Post #18
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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The Sale of Mac Baren Proved Costly
It’s not unusual for companies to change auditors from time to time This statement is disingenuous at best. It’s not unheard of for public companies to change auditors but it is definitely unusual. And given that this happened in the immediate aftermath of a material adverse adjustment it...- jguss
- Post #14
- Forum: General Pipe Smoking Discussion
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Feedback Loop Disintegration, Anyone?
People have picturesquely (and with great relish) celebrated the ephemeral nature of all things for centuries. AI is only the latest fashionable harbinger of doom. No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away...- jguss
- Post #29
- Forum: General Discussion
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Show Off Your Charatans Here!
Someone more familiar with the timeline will need to chime in but personally I’ve not seen any reference to the Belvedere until the late 1950s. Before then it fails to appear in a number of places you’d expect, eg the 1951 catalog, numerous contemporary price lists, and trade advertisements...- jguss
- Post #220
- Forum: Pipes: Show Us Your (fill in the blank) Pipes
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Looking for stingers
If you only had a time machine and were willing to buy in bulk finding stingers would be no problem, although somehow I doubt that Alcoa is still in this business: United States Tobacco Journal May 18, 1935 -
Las Vegas Intl Pipe Show 2025!
Don’t limit your options Jesse, Dave & Brian suggest sticking with gender neutral costumes.- jguss
- Post #13
- Forum: Pipe Events
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Apperantly I Am Also Fat
Speaking for all husbands wherever they may be I resent that remark. Wait a minute Dan, I rarely read all of anyone's posts, including my own; were you not talking about the married state?- jguss
- Post #26
- Forum: General Discussion
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Morabb Pipe Reamer
I should add that William Henry Moore was a partner in a company that manufactured studs and links, among other things. The name of the company was Moore, Abbott & Co. Limited, and the telegraph address was (unsurprisingly) Morabb. Hence the brand name of the "tobacco pipe scraper".- jguss
- Post #5
- Forum: Pipes Accessories
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