Woo Hoo, the Moretti Morta arrived think I'll fire it up with either Anniversary Kake or Troost Slices!
My Italian Collection Has Grown
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That is one neat looking pipe! :clap:
Is it your first morta? You gotta let us know how different the tobacco is in a morta. (I vote for Anni Kake.)
Is it your first morta? You gotta let us know how different the tobacco is in a morta. (I vote for Anni Kake.)
Awesome looking pipe, congrats on your new Morta. We definitely need to hear your thoughts on it's smoking properties.
Fishnbanjo, that pipe goes beyond handsome. It could go right on the wall at the Museum
of Modern Art. I like it because it is not a traditional shape, yet to my eye, it is not a freehand
either. It could be the introduction of a new standard shape for the future. Did you buy it as
a Dublin or some such more traditional description? I don't think so. It's quite a creative leap,
and then with a radically original design, it carries it off with restraint and precision. If I had
it, I'd have to dive right in with a bowl of tobacco or I'd get stuck preserving it for a special
occasion, like a bottle of wine that gets saved forever because it's too fine to drink. Light that
baby up and smoke away. Oooh-la-la. Mud in your eye. I'd call the shape a schooner.
of Modern Art. I like it because it is not a traditional shape, yet to my eye, it is not a freehand
either. It could be the introduction of a new standard shape for the future. Did you buy it as
a Dublin or some such more traditional description? I don't think so. It's quite a creative leap,
and then with a radically original design, it carries it off with restraint and precision. If I had
it, I'd have to dive right in with a bowl of tobacco or I'd get stuck preserving it for a special
occasion, like a bottle of wine that gets saved forever because it's too fine to drink. Light that
baby up and smoke away. Oooh-la-la. Mud in your eye. I'd call the shape a schooner.
Well it's not my first Morta, I have two, and it won't be my last. Here are photos of them both side by side so you can see both are non traditional shapes and both slightly blacker than the other, don't know if it's age or where the Morta came from. I know Marco gets his in Italy but don't know where Tom Richard gets his. The rustication goes all the way around on the Moretti including the top. I have been smoking Davidoff Flake Medallions explicitly in the Richard and will probably stick with Anniversary Kake in the Moretti for now until I've broken both in then I will test to see if they are indeed meerschaum like. Although the end cap on the Moretti appears to be bone I suspect it's acrylic made to look like bone.
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