***What Are You Smoking, July 2023?***

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, steelhead trout and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I've about a third of a bowl left of aged Rattrays Hal O’ The Wynd in a straight smooth brown pre-WWII (Comoy’s) Corinthian De-Luxe 126 pot made for Sutliff in San Francisco with a black tapered vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Watching the Braves-Red Sox game and am getting ready to clean a few pipes.

 

[ravkesef]

Sutliff’s Heavy English in a Caminetto Business 143, that I bought in 1974. This particular pipe was made by the master, Luigi Radice, himself.

 

[cshubhra]

Solani The Blend 779 English Luxury Mixture with Syrian Latakia from 2002 in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

This was the last smoke for this 21 year old tobacco. I hand purchased two tins but now both enjoyed and gone

 

[Rossi320]

Tying out plum pudding

I don't have the best phone so I don't have the nicest picture

 

[username]

Union square in the claw meer.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Blairgowrie in an Eltang acorn snail with horn

 

[andysc83]

Newminster 400 in the 1983 Dunhill Red Bark Lovat

 

[mso489]

Newminster #306 English Oriental in a Ferndown "Reo" smooth, bent billiard with a Vulcanite Cumberland stem with silver band, carved by Les Wood and, I am told, finished by his wife Dolly.

Busied around today writing and mailing some bills, taking two heavy jars of change to turn into paper cash at the grocery coin changer machine, over $150 bucks worth, and vacuumed out my car.

I'm told we're headed into some heavy heat toward the end of the week after a warm but not unusual July so far. Stay cool and hydrated.

 

[PennyStonks]

Opening night in a Kaywoodie

 

[JimInks]

Half way through this bowl of year 2018 Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a 1982 smooth straight Dunhill Root Briar 31051 dublin with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Off to work now.

 

[Ben.R.C]

Blairgowrie in an Eltang acorn snail with horn
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Out of all the recent artisan pipes I think this is the best smoker, having the best bowl of the day. Eltang knows his shizzle.

 

[JimRoseLV]

Some more Max Erik 1989 in a Savinelli 673KS. The flakes are perfect for the fold and stuff method if that’s your predilection.

 

[warren99]

Brebbia Latakia Flake No. 9 in a Dunhill Shell apple.

 

[onestrangeone]

Orential Silk in a Cardinal House Brandy

 

[Rossi320]

Plum pudding

 

[The Amish Tyrant]

Haven’t smoked my warden in months, it’s a Hans Christian Andersen filled with simply red. A small dram of whiskey will accompany View attachment 235601

I believe my father had this gnome. He was a pharmacist.

My father also had a pharmacist nutcracker on display in his home office. I carried the tradition and have two nutcrackers on display in my office (for each of my professions).

Thanks for the memory, it made me smile.

 

[JimInks]

Close to finishing this bowl of year 2015 Mac Baren Virginia #1 in a straight black 1925 Dunhill patent shell Canadian 33 with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[Steddy]

C&D Cap’s Blend in a cob. Time to settle in with a book.

 

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of Wilke No. 222 in an undated, unbranded straight smooth dark brown made in France Los Alton VBF billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

I believe my father had this gnome. He was a pharmacist.

My father also had a pharmacist nutcracker on display in his home office. I carried the tradition and have two nutcrackers on display in my office (for each of my professions).

Thanks for the memory, it made me smile.

Thank you @The Amish Tyrant, Yes his name was Jack the pharmacist, a vintage west German Goebel. He makes a great pipe holder