The farmers I knew back several decades ago would carry the pipes in the pockets of their bibb overalls. Lighter in their pocket and their tobacco if the chest compartment of the overalls. The tamper was the reliable finger.
Carrying Pipes Back In The Day
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Right! I suspect businessmen pipe smokers had some means of ruining expensive suits.
I've always been on the lookout for one of these, but have yet to find one.
What about when you are wearing those Seersucker suits? Those will soil easily. Tweed, will hide a multitude of sins.
I'll have to check with my wife, on her grandfather. I only recall him smoking at home, where he never had a pipe that wasn't within arms reach. In the car, he smoke a cheap cigar. Good times going over the rolling hills of Western Maryland!
I prefer simple and easy to access methods for carrying a pipe. If I have to wear dressier clothes I have a leather British Airways travel pouch that is 4" x8" that will hold a large pipe and a tri-fold tobacco pouch that will fit into a dress jacket inner pocket provided I pack the tobacco a little thinner. I also have a Leavenger pocket pad holder that is softsided leather ... its like a 5 cigar holder with a flap on top ... not as roomy but workable. I also have a hard sided sunglass case that is wider for large sunglasses that works with medium to smaller pipes and zip lock bag or pouch of tobacco. All of these were virtually "new" goodwill purchases for $1 to $5 dollars and all work o.k. for protecting jacket pockets. People buy a alot of "stuff" then don't use it and donate it.
I have a repurposed man bag. Its good for a couple of pipes, tobacco, cleaners etc...
I typically smoke at home so its rarely used.
I typically smoke at home so its rarely used.
This one would be ideal too:
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Brebbia tobacco pouch (black)
An easily transportable tobacco pouch Your favorite tobacco and pipe protected from moisture Storage pockets to take your accessories with you wherever you go
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I am in Academia, so wear a jacket, vest, and tie every day for work. Pipe goes in the right jacket pocket, pouch of tobacco in the left, lighter goes in a vest pocket. I switch out to a new pipe the next day. Simple and straightforward.
In the field or garrison in the military in my left fatigue chest pocket was my pipe and a tobacco pouch in the right bottom fatigue pocket.
Civilian environments jacket pockets or in the field my bullet proof vest’s Center pocket held a full tin and pipe. Days spent in administrative or court functions both inner suit or sport coat pockets. Today being retired I use a canvas roll or combo pouch when out and about.
Around the house whatever works depending on the climate usually a pocket jar and a lighter at the ready.
Civilian environments jacket pockets or in the field my bullet proof vest’s Center pocket held a full tin and pipe. Days spent in administrative or court functions both inner suit or sport coat pockets. Today being retired I use a canvas roll or combo pouch when out and about.
Around the house whatever works depending on the climate usually a pocket jar and a lighter at the ready.
@tobakenist Hope to see you in Nottingham this year! I love the Canalhouse but not the rest of Nottingham; homeless & litter everywhere... I bought a homeless man in Nottingham a milkshake from McDonald's & gave him the cigarettes / cigars I got given at the pipe smoker's meet-up. Looking forward to the Battle of Nantwich this month; going to smoke a clay with the Sealed Knot:
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Had a good warm-up by the pub fire after we'd smoked our pipes!
I have a small 1 pipe pouch that carries everything. It fits in any pocket and is not bulky at all.
I saw an old Sherlock Holmes movie where a guy used a small knitting needle to pick clean his pipe and stem.
I saw an old Sherlock Holmes movie where a guy used a small knitting needle to pick clean his pipe and stem.
I remember my Uncle just shoving it one pocket with lighter and tobacco pouch in another.
The pipe smokers I encountered as a child carried their pipe in a shirt or jacket pocket and their tobacco pouch in a pants pocket. The pouch was almost invariably the one the tobacco was purchased in.
They would load the pipe with the "codger scoop" (as I guess we're calling it now) and lighted with a match, or lighter. Tamping was done with said match or finger or the occasional twig picked up if one was lying handily about.
I have an old Dopp kit I keep in my truck. I carry a couple of pipes, tobacco, cleaners, an extra lighter and box of matches in it. I always carry a Czech tool in my pocket.
They would load the pipe with the "codger scoop" (as I guess we're calling it now) and lighted with a match, or lighter. Tamping was done with said match or finger or the occasional twig picked up if one was lying handily about.
I have an old Dopp kit I keep in my truck. I carry a couple of pipes, tobacco, cleaners, an extra lighter and box of matches in it. I always carry a Czech tool in my pocket.
A roll pouch ( sometimes a small tin ) and pipe in the shirt or overalls pocket. Pocket knife for tamping, stick matches or sometimes a book from the tavern. My dad had a zip pouch but it never quite fit anywhere so it stayed in the drawer. I do it the same way, except I carry a tamping tool, besides my pocket knife. I never travel far enough to need to pack more than one pipe and a roll up with an oz. or so.
I remember reading that CS Lewis carried his in the pocket of his jackets, and many of his tweed jackets had holes burned in the pockets because when he wearied of the pipe he’d just drop it in, and sometimes it wasn’t quite out.
I had a very similar one as a kid, when I smoked everywhere I went. He had a watertight latex pocket for tobacco (kept it moist for a few days), a pocket for the pipe and one for accessories.
Very practical and compact.
A good friend of mine was a senior police detective and an avid pipe smoker. While waiting be called to testify he enjoyed a pipe in the witness waiting room. He was called sooner than he expected and dropped is pipe in his coat pocket ( you know where this is going ) and went into the courtroom, was sworn, and while seated in the witness chair was advised by the judge that it appeared his coat was on 
The judge was a old timer and a goodguy. We all had a laugh.
The judge was a old timer and a goodguy. We all had a laugh.