***What Are You Smoking, June 2021?***

[samuelgawith01]

Butt ends and clippings from a Punch cigar in a Butz Choquin "Rolando " freehand.

 

[B.Lew]

More Stockton in the Altinay.

 

[The Clay King]

Peterson Irish Flake in a German Clay.

@pip01 Post number 1982 - my birth year and it mentions smoking a clay pipe

 

[The Clay King]

KC flake in a clay. Got this recently along with a white clay, both with vulcanite stems. I love the way clay pipes smoke, but dislike the clay stem. View attachment 84667@FurCoat I enjoyed the Kendal Cream Flake I got from @tozert in my clay pipes; I think Gawith flakes are well suited to clays!

 

[Tar Wheel]

I’ve got burgers on the grill, Old Forester 1910 in my glass and Wessex Brigade Campaign in a MM Country Gentlman.
Throw in a baseball game in a few minutes and you have a perfect evening. Cheers!

 

[virkia]

Early 20th century Bent with fish trademark (unidentified) and electro-plated ferrule



From one extreme to the other - and of course everything in between - there was a Bent Billiard for everyone and for every occasion.

Alongside an unidentified B.C reading pipe from 1889 and a very chunky F&T (Fribourg & Treyer) from 1911 sitting in a 1960s/1970s Savinelli plywood and leather pipe rack

 

[JimInks]

Just finishing this bowl of C&D Eight State Burley (Small Batch) in a smooth brown straight 1980s James Upshall Walnut pot with a black vulcanite tapered stem.

 

[greeneyes]

Crispy-dry Gawith Hoggarth Dark Flake Aromatic in a Ben Wade Selected Grain Lovat. Drying out some VaOrPer twist for later in the evening.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Crispy-dry Gawith Hoggarth Dark Flake Aromatic in a Ben Wade Selected Grain Lovat. Drying out some VaOrPer twist for later in the evening.
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That twist looks friggin amazing ?

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2015 D&R A.P. Rimboche in a smooth dark brown, medium bend late 1950s Parker Super Bruyere 45 with a “4” in a circle billiard with a black vulcanite tapered stem. This will get me to dinner time.

 

[EssJaySea]

A few hours ago, outside of signal range, a quick bowl of Bright Virginia (again) in my "Italy" stamped small-sized travel pipe (will get around to getting a photo of it) -- at about 7,700 feet on the side of Mt. Shasta in Northern California, with this as my view. A quick 15 minute pause on an eventual 9-mile hike, topped out around 8,000 feet.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Good morning everyone, I want to warn any Brits thinking of ordering from Estervals, I just got a £200 Customs bill for six tins of tobacco. I either pay (which will work out at around £50/$75 a tin) or I lose the tobacco and the £70 I paid for it.
Even winning a alligator covered Longchamp on eBay just now can’t take the sting out of this news.
I also just got my tin of 2016 Dunhill 221b, if anyone wants to buy it from me I’m only asking £200. ?
I’m smoking Tuskegee Airman in the Kiko meer poker with my coffee this morning, Prozac and Valium instead of milk and sugar today ?

I just finished an unpleasant experience with DHL concerning my Esterval's order.An agent for DHL here in the states contacted me by email and told me that I needed to do the following:
1) Obtain a Tobacco permit
2) Fill out an import power of attorney.
3) Provide one other US tax form that I can't recall the name of at this point.
I only had a 500 gr. Order.
To my knowledge, a tobacco permit is needed if you are a SELLER,so none of it made any sense to me.I emailed back saying that I am a private citizen,and not a business,and that the tobacco was for my personal use. No explanation came, just another demand.I emailed the CEO of Esterval's as well,and all he said was that there had been many changes since my last order (March 2020),but no guidance.I thought of hiring an import/customs attorney for even more$$$$$$,just to help me through this.In the end, I just sent an email to DHL telling them just to send it back to Esterval's,as I was not prepared to share my private information with them. As of this day,I have not received an invoice for any customs duty.So,I am finished with Esterval's, unless I go there in person to make a purchase,and how often does one travel to Hardebek,Germany??

 

[LotusEater]

More Mac Baren Navy Flake in the same Stanwell lovat. This pipe loves this tobacco.

 

[Ziggywm]

Trippin' down memory lane
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Thanks! Yes, that's how I remember it, although not sure Mr. Walter was on duty when I was there. It was overwhelming and so glad I had the Pounds to buy my Author. I understand their pipes were made for them by Dunhill and others. You didn't find anything that was stamped Ashley's with a pit or any flaw. The place was "old English", top quality, gentleman gentleman's shop of another era. On other visits I could only wish they were still fitting gentlemen with proper smoking implements.

 

[coming to_falling too]

Cornell and Diehl Old Joe Krantz in a MM freehand.

 

[greeneyes]

That twist looks friggin amazing ?

Thanks! So far they've been pretty tasty. I also cut up a dark fired twist with the same Oriental Cavendish and Périque core as the other one.

 

[das3353]

Sutliff 507C in a Rad Davis

 

[samuelgawith01]

Thanks! Yes, that's how I remember it, although not sure Mr. Walter was on duty when I was there. It was overwhelming and so glad I had the Pounds to buy my Author. I understand their pipes were made for them by Dunhill and others. You didn't find anything that was stamped Ashley's with a pit or any flaw. The place was "old English", top quality, gentleman gentleman's shop of another era. On other visits I could only wish they were still fitting gentlemen with proper smoking implements.

I purchased two pipes from Astley's in June 1998.Paul Bentley was the manager at that time.A real gentleman,he was.Mr. Bentley even arranged to have one of my other pipes repaired during my stay in London.?

 

[telescopes]

Nording F Moss with private blend. Steamy hot in the desert. But it’s a dry heat you say …

 

[samuelgawith01]

I just finished an unpleasant experience with DHL concerning my Esterval's order.An agent for DHL here in the states contacted me by email and told me that I needed to do the following:
1) Obtain a Tobacco permit
2) Fill out an import power of attorney.
3) Provide one other US tax form that I can't recall the name of at this point.
I only had a 500 gr. Order.
To my knowledge, a tobacco permit is needed if you are a SELLER,so none of it made any sense to me.I emailed back saying that I am a private citizen,and not a business,and that the tobacco was for my personal use. No explanation came, just another demand.I emailed the CEO of Esterval's as well,and all he said was that there had been many changes since my last order (March 2020),but no guidance.I thought of hiring an import/customs attorney for even more$$$$$$,just to help me through this.In the end, I just sent an email to DHL telling them just to send it back to Esterval's,as I was not prepared to share my private information with them. As of this day,I have not received an invoice for any customs duty.So,I am finished with Esterval's, unless I go there in person to make a purchase,and how often does one travel to Hardebek,Germany??

Yes,sad indeed.