***What Are You Smoking, August 2021?***

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, wild caught catfish and sugar snap peas dinner with a small scoop of Dutch chocolate ice cream for dessert. I'm a quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2013 Tilbury in a smooth medium bend 1999 Peterson Sherlock Holmes Series Milverton with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite p-lip stem. Ethical Coffee Sweet Expresso, neat, is my drink.

 

[jaytex1969]

Sutliff Crumble Kake VA Perique in a Hilson Vintage Panel.

 

[weezell]

Peterson: 3 P's - Peterson's Perfect Plug in a Meer...​

 

[mso489]

Tabac-Manil Semois thick cut in a Parker cherrywood shape blast poker. It was love at first puff with a sample from a Forums member, and when I enthused about it, another member sent me a nearly full package of it, along with a large tin of Frog Morton Cellar and a Ferndown pipe. What generosity. A tale I like to tell.

 

[craig61a]

While your example is clearly not made of briar "genuine briar" was definitely used as seen in this 1941 advert
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Perhaps they were initially, or the initial add copy specifies briar. Unless a manufacturer was sitting on mountain of briar, like Kaywoodie, other woods would have been used going into the production of these as WWII progressed and the supply of briar became problematic due to the war.

I have an earlier pipe with a "Bow Tie" Streamliner logo and the same patent number that appears to be made of Strawberry Wood (Arbutus Undeo). I believe these were made before Weber picked up rights to manufacture the design.

$ .30/Hr. was the minimum wage in 1940, so this would have taken over 3.3 hours of work in order to pay for it. If you were to apply today's $15.00/Hr. minimum wage, it becomes a $50.00 pipe...

 

[jewman22]

Cobblestone Rook flake in my Aldo Morelli half bent pot.

 

[tnfan]

2011 Mac Baren Navy Flake in a Koncak Andreas Bauer Bulldog.

 

[craig61a]

Just finished a great Zoom meeting and this bowl of year 2016 Peter Heinrichs Dark Strong Kentucky in an undated Family Era Sasieni Natural Four Dot Grosvenor smooth medium brown quarter bend bulldog with a black tapered vulcanite stem.
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That's a sweet looking pipe!

 

[B_Rock]

Smoking Nightcap in a Peterson Kildare B5 and drinking a Woodford Reserve Manhattan.

 

[JimInks]

About a third of a bowl left of Angler's Dream in a 2018 natural smooth medium bend Peterson 03 apple silver spigot military mount with a tapered black acrylic fish tail stem. Working and chatting with an old friend about the good old days of comics and the cartoonists we knew.

 

[JimInks]

That's a sweet looking pipe!

Thanks. I love that pipe.

 

[JimInks]

Listing this a few minutes early so I can concentrate on work for a while: Wilke No. 222 in a late 40s, early 50s straight black sandblasted Wagner (Comoy’s second) pot with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[Count Vajda]

Smoking some Watch City Nor'easter tonight in a Ferndown Bark Canadian.

 

[craig61a]

About a third of a bowl left of Angler's Dream in a 2018 natural smooth medium bend Peterson 03 apple silver spigot military mount with a tapered black acrylic fish tail stem. Working and chatting with an old friend about the good old days of comics and the cartoonists we knew.
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I had quite a pile of comic books back in the late 60’s, early 70’s. My parents would give me some change to buy a few comics for the drive up to our cabin in order to keep me occupied. I then discovered Mad Magazine, then National Lampoon. The Lampoon mags ended up being tossed after my Mother happened to pick one up and start reading it one day. She didn’t quite get the parody and took one of the adds in a particular parody as a serious add. ?

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am smoking Wilke No. 24 in a smooth straight brown 1949 Yello- Bole Century Model Lovat with a nickel band accent on the black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[JimInks]

I had quite a pile of comic books back in the late 60’s, early 70’s. My parents would give me some change to buy a few comics for the drive up to our cabin in order to keep me occupied. I then discovered Mad Magazine, then National Lampoon. The Lampoon mags ended up being tossed after my Mother happened to pick one up and start reading it one day. She didn’t quite get the parody and took one of the adds in a particular parody as a serious add. ?

Oh, man!!!!

 

[Spinkle]

A bowl of Cornell & Diehl Exhausted Rooster in my Missouri Meerschaum bent patriot.

 

[UncleRasta]

I've got some GLP Quiet Nights in a Grabow Duke.

This is my favorite English so far, but I'm new and always looking for recommendations. I've had EMP, Balkan Sobranie, Plum Pudding, and Quiet Nights, which is my favorite. Thinking about Chelsea Morning next, but I welcome any input!

Chelsea Morning is also delightful to my tastes. I would recommend it.

 

[JimInks]

A couple of minutes away from smoking Sutliff TS-4 White Burley in a 2015 dark brown smooth straight Basil Meadows Merchant Service “Bing” replica with an aluminum band and black ebonite stem. Just fed Suzy and Molly, and am going back to work.

 

[UncleRasta]

I did manage to get that bowl of Old Gowrie lit not long before midnight. Nice only smoke of the day. Goodnight all.