Second meer, picked up in Turkey from a local arisan in 1966. Just started smoking it last year. Haunted Bookshop, God's gift to pipe smoker's!
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Ok, I think you have all the pipes I want!
I love old British pipes and long sharks. They aren’t all that common, at least where I look for them.
McConnell’s Red VA in a 40s Barling
A third of a bowl left of D&R Penhooker in a straight smooth brown undated (Colossal) Custom Made Natural Grain Algerian Briar Made In France Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
There's a cool story behind that GBD pipe. I was running a restaurant back in 1981earning money to pay for college. A regular customer saw that I'd smoke my pipe when I was at the register, and asked if I was looking to add to my collection. I was, so the next time he came in, he sold me that pipe for twenty bucks and a beer. I ended up buying five more pipes from him. For many years, it was the only pipe of that style that I had, and it got a ton of usage until recently when my collection really expanded.Ok, I think you have all the pipes I want!
Arrowhead in the WDC Royal Demuth after first time watching “Island in the Sky” Good flick!
I have to ask how you stumbled across Arrowhead since your profile has you in Washington.
For those who don't know, Arrowhead is the house blend of Paul's Pipe Shop in Flint, Michigan (which is an institutional B&M in and of itself). Paul's has an outdated online presence, but you can order from them the old fashioned way, by phone (gasp). They also sell Cayuga pipes for excellent prices, which are oil cured (and is apparently a Michigan thing since Malaga did the same in Royal Oak).
Arrowhead is a kitchen sink aromatic consisting of vanilla, cinnamon, molasses, Virginia, burley, green river black Cavendish, perique, and a pinch of Latakia. Try some, I dare you.
Thar she blows! It’s always great to see this rare white wale of a pipe.
great question--I really can't recall how I heard about it. Not so easy to get tobacco in this state so we look around. I must have come across a mention online, and after checking a review or two, called them up and ordered some. I think it is GOOD! I don't consider it 'kitchen sink' and nothing at all like Killikinick. Pouch note is persistently delightful. I don't dip into it often, but it is always there...
OGS in a Pre-Republic System 0 Peterson 1307 (1945-1947)
I love Haunted Bookshop. Have you tried C&D’s Burley Flake series? I’m smoking #1, 2, and 3 and very happy.
C&D Innsmouth in a cob on the ride home from work. It’s been fun smoking this and Miskatonic Mixture as they have the same components in different proportions. 
And that one is a 76er which makes it extra cool (IMHO)Ok, I think you have all the pipes I want!
20$, dang. It’s a beaut. I was 12 in 81 and had just started smoking cigarettes.
The 7Eleven in my hood had no trouble selling me unfiltered Luckies! Cigs in NC were under a dollar a pack back then.
Did a little snacking, and am half way through this bowl of year 2018 Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a straight smooth brown 1960s-70s BBB Own Make 506 Canadian with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem.
I was never much for cigarettes, but they used to sell them to me as early as age nine in N.C. The people at the stores knew they were for my parents, and that I wasn't going to smoke them.20$, dang. It’s a beaut. I was 12 in 81 and had just started smoking cigarettes.
Don't buy cobs made in China. China does not produce specially cultivated corn for pipeline production. Because of the low price, these things are generally used by Chinese tobacco stores to provide free tobacco for guests to taste, or provide them at home to friends who are curious about smoking pipes, which are disposable consumables. I tried this kind of cob when I started smoking in 2008. It can only be used 20-30 times. After that, it is the situation you are facing now. This bad experience is also the reason why I didn't buy the first Missouri cob until a few months ago.
I just checked the price. You can buy 3 Chinese cobs for $4, including free shipping.
The smallest size, 36pipes for $8, including free shipping.
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Almost finished smoking year 2007 Astley’s No. 109 in a straight smooth brown circa 1950s-60s BBB Contrast 506 Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
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