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haebar

Can't Leave
Nov 10, 2014
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East Tennessee
Smoking some more GH Kendal Dark in a McCranie billiard.

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virkia

Lifer
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My favourite Gawith Hoggarth blend is the Cherry Vanilla - will be getting some more when I go to see Lace Wars and the Sealed Knot once the pandemic is over!
I've got some of that which I smoke in a Calabash dedicated to cherry blends.
@virkia You should have smoked the Gawith Hoggarth in a clay...
That's a good idea but as I only smoke in my study nowadays while watching movies I find the decent capacity of the Calabash the perfect pipe for me.
Not my style of clay pipe; it looks more American Civil War than the Cavaliers & Redcoats I bought my clay pipes for.
That pipe looks amazing and so different to the Churchwarden, Alderman and Straws that I encountered in the UK.
Looks to me very much like a product of The Akron Smoking Co. namely, "The Powhatan"
Information comes from the Greater Pittsburgh Newspaper, September 17, 1992 about these pipe, "The pipes made by the company consist of hollow, clay bowls. A stem could be purchased separately probably for a few cents but many people economized by using pieces of cane for the stem.
The pipes originally sold for about 5 cents.
Akron Smoking Pipe Co. was founded around 1840 and manufactured about 25 styles of pipes and sold them to settlers, Indians and members of the Shaker community. The pipes were also shipped to Europe, as well as down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to buyers in Southern markets.
In the old days, Irish and Scottish women smoked pipes as well.
The plant burned down during the 1890's and the site was bulldozed over."


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Smoking a bowl of GH Kendal Dark in a small Dunhill Tanshell billiard.

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The finish and colour sure look very different to my Tanshell 'Zulu' from 1978:-
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haebar

Can't Leave
Nov 10, 2014
348
6,245
East Tennessee
I've got some of that which I smoke in a Calabash dedicated to cherry blends.

That's a good idea but as I only smoke in my study nowadays while watching movies I find the decent capacity of the Calabash the perfect pipe for me.

That pipe looks amazing and so different to the Churchwarden, Alderman and Straws that I encountered in the UK.
Looks to me very much like a product of The Akron Smoking Co. namely, "The Powhatan"
Information comes from the Greater Pittsburgh Newspaper, September 17, 1992 about these pipe, "The pipes made by the company consist of hollow, clay bowls. A stem could be purchased separately probably for a few cents but many people economized by using pieces of cane for the stem.
The pipes originally sold for about 5 cents.
Akron Smoking Pipe Co. was founded around 1840 and manufactured about 25 styles of pipes and sold them to settlers, Indians and members of the Shaker community. The pipes were also shipped to Europe, as well as down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to buyers in Southern markets.
In the old days, Irish and Scottish women smoked pipes as well.
The plant burned down during the 1890's and the site was bulldozed over."


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The finish and colour sure look very different to my Tanshell 'Zulu' from 1978:-
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My Tanshell has been smoked a lot; some areas on the bowl appear almost black. Unfortunately, one of its previous owners put wax on it and buffed it.
 
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I've got some of that which I smoke in a Calabash dedicated to cherry blends.

That's a good idea but as I only smoke in my study nowadays while watching movies I find the decent capacity of the Calabash the perfect pipe for me.

That pipe looks amazing and so different to the Churchwarden, Alderman and Straws that I encountered in the UK.
Looks to me very much like a product of The Akron Smoking Co. namely, "The Powhatan"
Information comes from the Greater Pittsburgh Newspaper, September 17, 1992 about these pipe, "The pipes made by the company consist of hollow, clay bowls. A stem could be purchased separately probably for a few cents but many people economized by using pieces of cane for the stem.
The pipes originally sold for about 5 cents.
Akron Smoking Pipe Co. was founded around 1840 and manufactured about 25 styles of pipes and sold them to settlers, Indians and members of the Shaker community. The pipes were also shipped to Europe, as well as down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to buyers in Southern markets.
In the old days, Irish and Scottish women smoked pipes as well.
The plant burned down during the 1890's and the site was bulldozed over."


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The finish and colour sure look very different to my Tanshell 'Zulu' from 1978:-
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I really enjoy reading the history of tobacco and pipes. Thanks for the posting vikira
 
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