Sorry I missed this the first time around.
Good Lord. That's a massive hunk of briar, Frogman!
It's also the first 150 I've ever seen depicted. You know the Bertram history and you're on the record for enjoying massive pipes, so I have to ask. How does it smoke?
Do you remember, 3 or 4 years ago, when you talked me through opening the airway on that whistling Bertram billiard I'd picked up? It's become one of my favorites, Bradley, and a pipe I reach for every week. Our friend, Roth, wrote several times about stopping by and watching the activity at the Ehrlich shop in Boston and I always felt that Bertram was the D.C. equivalent.
Fnord