@FoggyMorning Nice pipe and good tobacco choice; I was smoking C&D Yorktown in my clay pipe at the Redcoats & Revolutionaries event at Cromford Mill last year when the blacksmith lit my clay pipe with an ember from his forge!
I used to pick them up by the handful on the Thames in London when I was a kid mud larking, found all sorts of strange stuff including a cannon ball. Now you have to dig pretty deep to find anything there and I think you need a permit.I don't wear the Redcoat while litter picking.
Received a box of clay pipe fragments from @Birddog66; I can imagine litter picking a place where people still smoked clay pipes
I love the stuff. I tend not to get along with heavily topped or cased blends, and as far as I can tell, this is neither.Rattray’s Old Gowrie in a Dr. Grabow: Commodore 65 Zulu, dated from 1967-1969, vulcanite stem, metal screw-in tenon, no stinger.
@UncleRasta Gowrie is starting to grow on me, but the slighty sweet tin note and taste, is that a casing or the Kentucky?
What say you too @JimInks what is that tin note and similar taste in Old Gowrie, somewhat like Hal O’ The Wynd, casing, or the Kentucky? hmm
Be well everyone!
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@Birddog66 Sounds good to me! Rotherham Bridge Chapel (where I took part in a volunteer day with Don Catchment Rivers Trust) used to be a tobacconist that sold clay pipes; didn't find any discarded ones thoughI used to pick them up by the handful on the Thames in London when I was a kid mud larking, found all sorts of strange stuff including a cannon ball. Now you have to dig pretty deep to find anything there and I think you need a permit.
It looks like a nice sandblasted bowl for a 'no name' pipe. Any idea where it comes from? And what tobacco are smoking in it now?Sometimes a “no name” pipe is awesome.
Me too, I always want to “catch up” in the morning, with caffeine and nicotene!Felt like something strong this early morning. Dark Birds Eye in a cob View attachment 236565