Jeantet Buyere From Wayne Davis at Jon’s Pipe Shop

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Briar Lee

Lifer
Sep 4, 2021
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Humansville Missouri
My wife and I decided to go to Columbia this afternoon and I made it to Jon’s Pipe Shop in The District just after 4 pm.

Wayne Davis only takes cash, not plastic, so I used the ATM at Central Bank across the street before my trip.

Dr. Wayne Davis PhD was expounding on matters of grave importance such as giving block grants to local governments and then those localities wasting the funds on modern police toys for them to play with, instead of benefiting the populace.

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Since I left Humansville Wayne is the first man I’ve met who is familiar with A Fence or an Ambulance, by Joeseph Malines.


I bought two more little cans of Union Square and looked at Wayne’s pipes for sale and gladly paid $80 cash for this magnificent Jeantet Buyere that looks and smokes like it was made from ancient, oil cured, aged, unstained, unvarnished and unpainted Pre Algerian War of Independence Algerian briar that was either an expertly carved and polished plateaux or was cleverly rusticated to resemble it.

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It features a threaded stinger, the only such one I’ve ever seen.

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The pipe is not stamped imported briar or Made in France although it most certainly was. This came home with a pilgrim voyager across the briny foam.



My wife and I drove on West to check on the construction of the new bridge at Roacheport, and to my surprise it’s done.


About twenty years ago Lance Corporal Leon Duraps, stood proud in his uniform in my kitchen and announced he was being paid a $40,000 bonus to go to Iraq.

It is well, they named the new bridge after his memory.

The young pay the price for old men’s mistakes.

 
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Briar Lee

Lifer
Sep 4, 2021
6,958
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Humansville Missouri
Looking at this closer this morning, it almost has to be counterfeit plateaux.

Maybe one side was genuine plateaux but how could it be an L shape exactly the right shape to drill the shank and bore out a chamber?

It was a large chunk of Algerian briar and a superbly talented artisan.

Both these were made in factories, not custom shops.

Jeantet Buyere over Marxman Square Panel “Big Boy”

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Wayne Davis has been accumulating these gems since 1975 in the same shop in The District and his most expensive professionally reconditioned briar is $80. You can buy all the GL Pease two ounce cans you want for $16 each. And, you can smoke in there and listen to Wayne Davis sound like an entire tree full of owls. Davis dates when each can is put in inventory.

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And he gets to light matches in his overstuffed chair and smoke the best ones and watch the college kids walk up and down the street just outside the shop window.

That’s an ancient Peterson he was smoking yesterday.

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You must go!

Bring cash!

What else is money for?

He’s likely there until 5 but the sign reads 8:30 to 4:30 weekdays.

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You can buy all the GL Pease two ounce cans you want for $16 each. And, you can smoke in there and listen to Wayne Davis sound like an entire tree full of owls. Davis dates when each can is put in inventory.

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Glad you’re happy with your score! Looks like interesting rustication. In one of the photos, the bit looks chipped. Maybe it’s the lighting?

If you’re referring to that yellow sticker, Wayne Davis did not date that tin—that’s a standard Cornell & Diehl sticker code. Here’s a tin of G.L. Pease Spark Plug from Smoking Pipes:

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Briar Lee

Lifer
Sep 4, 2021
6,958
23,522
Humansville Missouri
Glad you’re happy with your score! Looks like interesting rustication. In one of the photos, the bit looks chipped. Maybe it’s the lighting?

If you’re referring to that yellow sticker, Wayne Davis did not date that tin—that’s a standard Cornell & Diehl sticker code. Here’s a tin of G.L. Pease Spark Plug from Smoking Pipes:

Thank you! Wayne has a younger sidekick that unpacks boxes, so he can smoke his fabulous old pipes and light matches and expound on the world’s problems. They came dated.

My pipe is perfect. I could finish polishing the stem, but it’s flawless.

I’d accept without question my pipe was rusticated except it looks exactly like the top of a Danish freehand, except all over.

It has a threaded stinger.

I nearly stripped it but turned it the right way to unscrew it.

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Talk about made by elves and sprinkled with fairy dust——-.:)
 
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