4 pictures, Dunhill Crosbys
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foggy, those are beautiful, what a great collection. I am very curious about their smoking properties, do you find them to be very similar, do some smoke better than others? How do they compare to others in your collection, do you find yourself reaching for them on a regular basis? I ask because I am really thinking of adding one or two to my collection, I just love the looks of them. Also what group size are they, are they all the same or do they come in different sizes?
They are hard to find. Part of the reason is that I got them all, and Dunhill does not make many. I thought I saw a few on the alpascia site recently. I smoke them all the time in rotation. The smooth finished chestnut & bruyere Crosbys smoke best. The amber root finish is good, but it takes longer to break in. The black shells have a slightly bitter taste at first, but lots of smoking makes it go away. The cumberlands use the same stain as the chestnut, but because there is so much more of it on a blasted pipe it doesn't taste as good at first, but is OK with a lot of smoking. Bing Crosby smoked both smooth and shell versions of this pipe in the film High Society. That was a film which really starred Louis Armstrong, but the credited stars were Crosby and Lanatra. And of course Grace Kelly, in her last film before becoming "the great golden bird of Monaco" (Nostradamus). I am not a Crosby fan, but he did deliver one great song in that film. I think it was called Jazz Is, an explanation of the jazz medium. He was uncowed by the presence of Armstrong, which took courage, because he knew that Louis was the driving force not only of jazz, but of 20th century music.
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