They don’t have many Costello, Radice, Gepetto, or other high dollar pipes very much around Bug Tussle.
In this old sin cussed world full of woe and tribulations the nature of things is when you pay more you get more, better.
Emmett Molder had the store at Hamlet (Bug Tussle) in 1938. Harry Hosterman was 22 years old, in 1938.
In theory Harry could have driven over to the Bug Tussle store and had Emmett Molder order him in a 400, for $25.
This land just South of Bug Tussle sold for $3.50 an acre in 1936 and that was only because my grandfather’s father’s wealthy sister Eva felt sorry for her brother Elmer who was bound for the fields of Bakersfield California where in his middle age he’d work like a slave in the fields of the other man, and never see home again. He died in 1946, and the family went to his funeral. His wife Cora lived almost forever, dying in 1980.
A Marxman pipe started, at $3.50 in 1938.
When my father had the money to buy Elmer’s 60 back in 1944 his aunt held him up for $15 an acre and his mother took a gun after Eva, and my grandfather and father barely prevented her from laying her in the cold, cold ground.
They said Eva was always as greedy as she was beautiful, which is how she got her wealth to begin with.
I own the best smoking pipe I can imagine.
Just two smokes and look how it colored, no grapeseed oil needed.
If any pipe was worth 7 acres of crop land in 1938 it was a Marxman 400.
That land today starts at $6000, and likely more.
Thanks to folks who came before me, I can afford a lot of Marxman pipes today.
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Deuteronomy 6:10–11
“And when the LORD your God brings you into the land that he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you—with great and good cities that you did not build, and houses full of all good things that you did not fill, and cisterns that you did not dig, and vineyards and olive trees that you did not plant—and when you eat and are full.
