***What Are You Smoking, June 2020?***

[MrTom]

Full Virginia Flake in a Peterson's Ashford.

 

[Richmond B. Funkenhouser]

Smoking Carter Hall in a Yello bole. Drinking coffee, spending some time on the front porch.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2014 HU Directors Cut in a smooth straight Lane era Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad. Phone chatting with my old college room mate.

 

[cigrmaster]

2013 Brigham Klondike Gold in a Brian Ruthenberg Apple.

 

[cshubhra]

A beautiful Sunday. Smoking some Capstan Blue Ready Rubbed in a Comoy’s Golden Grain Squat Bulldog

 

[Country Bladesmith]

On to some Sutliff BSOSM Match in a cob.

 

[tech49]

Wilke No. 531 in a Savinelli Alligator Red bent billiard. Drinking Hirsch Small Batch bourbon and listening to Dimension X.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Found this Iittala glass ashtray (?) on a stoop while I had some Newminster 400

 

[seanv]

Medal of valor in a vincenzo pocket pipe. Too bad this blend is now discontinued

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Ken Byron Ventures Burlier Morning Pipe in a mid-70s straight smooth octagonal paneled Jeanet (made by Chacom) billiard with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Going to get some more walking in.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Doing the lawn cutting with Lane Black Raspberry in the $20 Shell Briar.

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Finished a bowl of Luxury Twist Flake in a big, SMS lattice meer. Now I'm outside inspecting my nectarine tree, which seems to be dropping all of it fruit. No bueno. I'm smoking an Undercrown Sungrown Corona. What a massive let down. I LOVE the regular Undercrowns, but this thing makes me feel like I'm 15 and smoking a White Owl. Just a blah, one dimensional, leathery, meh. This thing should be a $2.00 cigar. Maybe it's just a dud, I have another, so I'll see how it goes.

 

[condorlover1]

Found this Iittala glass ashtray (?) on a stoop while I had some Newminster 400

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Best Finnish glassware around. The wife and I got a ton of it for wedding gifts from family back in Finland years ago!

 

[cshubhra]

It’s a beautiful day - but it’s windy ? My last bowl did not even last 40 mins. So I fired up some Warped Cloud ️ Hopper in a Peterson Sherlock ?️‍ Holmes Baker Street

 

[Country Bladesmith]

It’s a beautiful day - but it’s windy ? My last bowl did not even last 40 mins. So I fired up some Warped Cloud Hopper in a Peterson Sherlock ?️‍ Holmes Baker Street

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Beautiful pipe. I usually just give up if it’s that windy.

 

[cshubhra]

Thank you. It’s windy so I will just have two 30 min bowls ?

Beautiful pipe. I usually just give up if it’s that windy.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

Best Finnish glassware around. The wife and I got a ton of it for wedding gifts from family back in Finland years ago!

Hard to argue with the quality and design of nearly anything produced in that part of the world.

 

[Tabacco]

A generous dose of FVF in MacArthur.

 

[SpookedPiper]

Richmond Navy cut flake in Comoy sandblast 120 Dublin.

 

[virkia]

Two from Charatan bought in the late 1970s + two Danske Club PEACH BRANDY and BLACK & VIRGINIA:-

1) "CHARATAN'S MAKE LONDON ENGLAND 162DC" on the shank / Belvedere finish in Huntsman shape / "Regd. No. 203573" on the stem / F.C. (Frederick Charatan) and .925 stamps on the mount.
2) "CHARATAN'S MAKE LONDON ENGLAND" on the shank / Bell Dublin shape / "Regd. No. on the stem.



Charatan leaflets of the period:-