Afternoon bowl of LJ Peretti Smith's Own in a Charatan birdseye Poker with saddle stem. I knew the blender, the late Steve Smith, from LJ Peretti in Boston who guided my tobacco choices when I started smoking. A good guy. And he taught me a good lesson: I had Robert Peretti carved straight grain billiard with gold band I wasn't smoking because I didn't like the balace for clenching. I told him about it and he asked me to show it to him. When I showed it to him, on the spot, into his mouth it went and he wouldn't take it out until I sold it to him.