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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
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Relaxing after a wonderful salad, rainbow trout and green beans dinner with pineapple and cherries for dessert. I've about a quarter of a bowl of Hill & Hill Virginia Puro in a 2014 smooth medium bend Basil Meadows egg with an aluminum band and a "root beer swirl" acrylic tapered stem. This will finish the sample.
 

hawky454

Lifer
Feb 11, 2016
5,338
10,231
Austin, TX
Cheers to SPC! It took two days for them to send me out a replacement tin of my moldy Savinelli 140 Anniversary blend. If that ain’t customer service, I don’t know what is! Hats off to them!

Trying this blend out for the first time in my BB Savinelli Rhodesian

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It’s pretty wild how much lighter this fresh tin is compared to the tin with 4 years on it;

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hawky454

Lifer
Feb 11, 2016
5,338
10,231
Austin, TX
Cheers to SPC! It took two days for them to send me out a replacement tin of my moldy Savinelli 140 Anniversary blend. If that ain’t customer service, I don’t know what is! Hats off to them!

Trying this blend out for the first time in my BB Savinelli Rhodesian

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It’s pretty wild how much lighter this fresh tin is compared to the tin with 4 years on it;

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Too late to edit... this pipe is a Stanwell not a Savinelli. cray
 

JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
64,397
643,824
Just finished this bowl of Peter Stokkebye No. 17 English Luxury in a quarter bend smooth dark brown small bowl 2016 Brigham Algonquin 226 Rhodesian with a long black vulcanite tapered stem. Trying to decide what movie m'lady and I are going to watch. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.
 

bluegrassbrian

Your Mom's Favorite Pipe Smoker
Aug 27, 2016
6,625
63,637
41
Louisville
Did it change too when STG acquired the tobacco? Because Irish Flake got knackered. Supposedly Rattray Stirling Flake is my old IF, but it’s usually out of stock when I think about ordering it.
They changed Sherlock Holmes years ago from a really nice straight Virginia ribbon to a Virginia/? With a very noticeable casing.
 

weezell

Lifer
Oct 12, 2011
13,653
49,171
Samuel Gawith: 1792 Flake in a Meer...
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