Sure it’s not the most beautiful pipe. It came to me quite worn out, dirty, thick cake in the bowl drilled out of center. A few bucks on eBay, the seller even didn’t know if it was a wooden pipe or not. All I knew, it was a white pipe. And I am not even shure if it is block meerschaum or one of those, that have been made in Vienna of pressed meerschaum. Nevertheless there is some colouring in that big bowl, especially in the stem. It’s the biggest bowl I have with a tobacco chamber of 23 millimetres and depth of approximately 4 centimetres. I received a new badge of Tom daracz-tobaccos in Kiel. The one I smoked now smells like ripe figs, it’s sweet and dense, black cavendish with a fifths of Perique and some red Virginias, no Sri. IT’s called „black and beauty“. I don’t know if you can say that anymore two years further, mybe they say it’s “cultural appropriation”? Nice smoke so far! An ice cold beer to pair.
