Time Really Can Stand Still!

[fishnbanjo]

I needed a break, one more coffee and a pipe but I'm cleaning the man cave and like an idiot my pipes are inaccessible as is most of my open tins so it's going to be what I can grab w/o disturbing precarious things! Let's see, ah the venerable and tasty Kajun Kake and Oh, the Sixten Ivarsson bamboo shank Apple! So out the door I go and light it up.
30 minutes later............
I'm standing here leaning on the SL500 typing this with one finger on my Smartphone thinking "Lord, thank you for letting time stand still and please, before I die let me smoke this pipe, with this tobacco, because the road to heaven should be this sweet, amen"!

 

[pstlpkr]

Nice looking pipe.

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[fishnbanjo]

On my way back to the man cave I grabbed another cuppa and saw the downstairs rack sitting there knowing I'd just replenished the tobacco jar with Plum Cake and being a man's man one must never forget ones first Ballerina so I plucked the Eltang Ballerina and gave her a good serving of Plum cake for dessert and out to the SL500 we danced.........

 

[kashmir]

Pair o' great pipes there, Banjo.

The pipe does indeed make time stand still, and therein lies the magic.

 

[drwatson]

Very nice pipe Sir!

 

[pstlpkr]

I love that sitter.... not to mention the (I'm assuming this) Pulm Cake.

 

[fishnbanjo]

Aye, sir, you have it correct and I have another sitter of that style by Tsuge but it sits in the Bamboo Shank Rack.

I love that sitter.... not to mention the (I'm assuming this) Pulm Cake.

 

[4dotsasieni]

That SI bamboo looks very much like a pipe I have, (pic below) that I acquired many years ago, but mine has absolutely no identifying marks or brand name on it (and I don't think I could have afforded an Ivarsson back then). Does yours have some sort of ID on it, and if so, where?
Thanks!

 

[fishnbanjo]

4dotsasieni it would be stamped like this

mid way on the shank, that is not my pipe as it is stamped 1988 but the same stamp nonetheless.