Greetings all,
I’m a pipe and tobacco collector for many years, having started around ’99 or 2000. Started learning on alt.pipesmokers (a google group maybe…I do not remember). First pipe was a Peterson Canadian purchased from David P. Erlich in the original store, but it took forever to break in so I became mostly interested in the hand carved pipes from the many artisans at the time. My first of such pipes were purchased from Greg Pease when he was the guy selling Kent Rasmussen and Pete Heeschen. The carvers most represented in my collection are Heeschen, Purdy, and Negoita, with many pipes (K. Nielsen, Ardor and Rinaldo) purchased from Steve Monjure at either the Richmond or Chicago shows…because he was a super swell guy and they were super nice pipes. I also have commissions from Talbert and Roush. Lots of other various pipes collected over time.
Then, the little kids we had in the late 90’s started to grow and become more demanding (stuff like food….which they ate more of every day, and clothing…which they constantly grew out of, and schoolbooks etc)….so my little expensive hobby slowed quite a bit. I sold my motorcycle, purchased a minivan, and was off to those races for the next decade and a half.
While pipe collecting, I also vigorously collected pipe tobacco, but smoked little of it. My staples for smoking were from C&D and GLP, with periodic wandering into McClelland Virginia’s….but I purchased all makes of tobacco’s – particularly ones I thought would become rare. I turned out to be right on that one. I still have not smoked much of it.
After the demise of McClelland and the rapid eclipsing of Syrian blends, I decided to get back into the hobby a bit and educate myself again about the landscape. The carvers (there seem to be many), the remaining small tobacco houses (there seem to be few), and things like that. Steve Fallon recently suggested this group.
So, here I am. I hope to learn and contribute!
Regards from Boston.
I’m a pipe and tobacco collector for many years, having started around ’99 or 2000. Started learning on alt.pipesmokers (a google group maybe…I do not remember). First pipe was a Peterson Canadian purchased from David P. Erlich in the original store, but it took forever to break in so I became mostly interested in the hand carved pipes from the many artisans at the time. My first of such pipes were purchased from Greg Pease when he was the guy selling Kent Rasmussen and Pete Heeschen. The carvers most represented in my collection are Heeschen, Purdy, and Negoita, with many pipes (K. Nielsen, Ardor and Rinaldo) purchased from Steve Monjure at either the Richmond or Chicago shows…because he was a super swell guy and they were super nice pipes. I also have commissions from Talbert and Roush. Lots of other various pipes collected over time.
Then, the little kids we had in the late 90’s started to grow and become more demanding (stuff like food….which they ate more of every day, and clothing…which they constantly grew out of, and schoolbooks etc)….so my little expensive hobby slowed quite a bit. I sold my motorcycle, purchased a minivan, and was off to those races for the next decade and a half.
While pipe collecting, I also vigorously collected pipe tobacco, but smoked little of it. My staples for smoking were from C&D and GLP, with periodic wandering into McClelland Virginia’s….but I purchased all makes of tobacco’s – particularly ones I thought would become rare. I turned out to be right on that one. I still have not smoked much of it.
After the demise of McClelland and the rapid eclipsing of Syrian blends, I decided to get back into the hobby a bit and educate myself again about the landscape. The carvers (there seem to be many), the remaining small tobacco houses (there seem to be few), and things like that. Steve Fallon recently suggested this group.
So, here I am. I hope to learn and contribute!
Regards from Boston.
