He aint got no tobacca in that pipe!!
I have a pair of "Match Grain" Yorkshire pipes I got from a friend....one Billiard, one Apple.
Both have pretty chewed up stems and dinged up wood, but the bowls were unsmoked.
The story is from the original owner, my best buds dad.
He started college in 1959 and immediately bought a MG convertible and a Newsboy hat...or something similar. In all the pictures he saw of cool Brits in their little convertibles and tiny hats, they all had a pipe in their mouth.
So, he went to Urban Town News in Jamestown NY, and bought the Yorkshire pipes.
He only had them in his mouth while driving.
On a similar topic.....
When my dad was in high school he was a "greaser" sort of guy.
He doesn't call it that, but, slicked back hair, rolled blue jeans, always working on cars.....and of course the pack of "Lucky Strike" cigs rolled up in the sleeve of his way too tight white tshirt.....I've got the pictures.
But, my dad never smoked a cigarette in his life. Like my friends dad with the pipes, my dad was just a poser!!
Apparently this was common in the mid 1950s....around here at least.