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Birddog66

Lifer
Nov 29, 2020
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Thanks very much for the suggestion but the 45 year old Fribourg & Treyer ciggies are thankfully in remarkably good condition having been kept in a drawer away from heat sources and have not dried out unlike the 106 year old ciggies from 1914 which certainly have:-
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I was also a big fan of the Rameses - which I smoked throughout the 1980s right up to the early 1990s (even though they were priced @£9.99 for a pack of twenty which was considerably more expensive than any other brand on the market at the time and could only be sourced as far as I was aware from Davidoff in Jermyn Street and G. Smith & Sons in The Charing Cross Road).
I was sadly forced to abandon Rameses when new E.E.C. rulings about nicotine and tar content came into force - I forget now exactly when that was - which resulted in a recipe change from 16 mg. tar and 1.2 mg. nicotine to 12 mg. tar and 0.9 mg. nicotine and the ciggies became but a shadow of their former selves and that was the end for me:-
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I thought I got mine in Lewis’ in Covent Garden but could have been Charing Cross. I was a Samson lover, thirty years, and then it just disappeared a couple of years ago. Nothing else satisfied me so I turned to the pipe full time. Enjoy them
 

JimInks

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Aug 31, 2012
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576,524
While off line, I smoked circa year 2000 Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style. The, it was KBV Burrrrley Morning Pipe Fall/Winter Edition Beta Test in an undated, unbranded, slight bend smooth darker brown made in France Los Alton VBF zulu with a black vulcanite saddle stem.
 
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