Picked up an Alpha basket pipe in the late 80's in college along with a bag of some cherry aromatic and tins of 3 Nuns, Dunhill Ready Rubbed, and Dunhill 965, switched to Balkan Sobranie and Bengal Slices and remained there until they disappeared, and consoled myself with Dunhill Durbar, Butera Pelican, and McConnell Oriental. I have a decent collection of Ashton and Butera briars and meerschaums which after 20+ years of smoking are coming along nicely; one of the Bekler's has mostly retired due to being about as fully colored as it can get. Nowadays I mostly smoke orientals with the occasional digression into McConnell's Scottish Cake and Peretti's Cuban Mixture for certain meers.