***What Are You Smoking, August 2020?***

[pipeboy122]

Stokkebye Toasted Burley in a MM 5th Avenue

 

[tnfan]

Solani 633 in a Castello “Castello” Hawkbill nose warmer.

 

[condorlover1]

What’s the brand name and/or where can those clays be found?

Ask @weezell I think they were sold through Pipes and Cigars one of the forums sponsors - he sent me one with a few spare bowls a couple of years ago.

 

[Perique]

Wilke Bestmake in a meer.

 

[ofafeather]

I am enjoying it a bit more now that I'm in the middle of the bowl. I think you're right that it's more on the subtle side, and I wasn't really expecting that based on the rich and fruity tin note.

Right, I remember that amazing tin note.

 

[greeneyes]

Rattray's Highland Targe in a Ben Wade Selected Grain. The char light on this bowl was 10 hours ago and I'm only just now getting back to it. No wonder I'm grumpy.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 1969 Lane Crown Achievement in a 2003 URAL full bend big bowl egg shaped Lattice meer with a black acrylic saddle stem.

 

[cshubhra]

Cigar Time- Rock Patel Vintage 1990

 

[das3353]

Balkan Supreme in a Radice Rind

 

[mso489]

OHM Red Turkish in a straight blast tapered Tsuge billiard.

 

[Perique]

More Angler’s Dream. This time in a Grabow Savoy.

 

[B_Rock]

Enjoying a bowl of Solani Virginia Flake 633 in a Peterson System Standard 312. Right up there with Fillmore as a favorite Va/Per.

 

[sallow]

Mac Baren Plumcake in a Tsuge Mizki

 

[Tabacco]

 

[condorlover1]

Enjoying a bowl of Condor Plug in a meerschaum 'cutty' pipe!

 

[virkia]

Early 20th Cent. J.S.L (another forgotten pipe maker) + Cornell & Diehl LONGEVITY II:-

 

[Scottishgaucho]

After a lovely pork chop dinner having some Condor in the Bullcap with coffee, dram and a choccy. It's cold outside so the whisky bottle is being kept handy as I've still to take the dogs out.

 

[virkia]

I am just curious but it looks like the chamber of the briar pipe is immaculate and unsmoked - I assume this is a trick of the lighting used to take the picture. The meerschaum 'cutty' looks to be a standard 5 1/2". Is the stem a replacement or original? Any idea who made it or is it one of those generic Austrian pipes that seem to surface quite often? BTW love your broken clay pipe collection. Thames Mud Larking or Victorian dump digging?

* Mainly smoking Calabashes nowadays.
* No maker's marks on the meer or on its case . . . as for the stem it's got HAND CUT STEM embossed around close to where it screws into the shank . . . as for it being original to the pipe I can't be sure but my feeling is that it is.
* Clay pipe portions c.1580 - c. 1800 on the left lower shelf were collected the lazy way and picked up from The House of Pipes auction in 1991 although it did take some travelling to get to the auctions from where I live.

 

[trubka2]

2014 GLP Navigator in a Guildhall.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful trout with garlic green beans dinner with strawberries and cherries for dessert. I'm a quarter of the way through the last of this sample of J.F. Germain’s Rich Dark Flake in a 1998 smooth medium bend Peterson Limerick 69 with a nickel band and a black vulcanite p-lip stem. Community Coffee is my drink. Watching a PBS documentary about King Henry VIII.