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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
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Half way through this bowl of 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 should get me to dinner time. Have enough left in this one pound bag for a smoke or two. Watching the Braves-Red Sox game.
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virkia

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Jan 30, 2020
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I made it to J.J. Fox, F&T, and old Dunhill's while I stayed at Victory, my military club in the 90s - where I still have my membership today. In their sitting room in the 90s I could smoke my Havana cigars and pipe. Those days are gone. We who remember the old days know what has been lost.
Yes, I remember the Naval and Military club - affectionately known as the In and Out.
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I remember the shop but never entered I’m sad to say. Jermyn St (pronounced Jerrum) is long famed for its shirt makers of the finest quality, the men’s shirt equivalent of Saville Row where the finest suits are made.
Yes, I also remember Jermyn Street for other things apart from pipes - Turnbull & Asser and Harvie and Hudson where I had some shirts made back in the 1970s when a made-to-measure shirt cost £30 including personal touches such as turn-back cuffs, initials on breast pocket etc. God knows how much a similar shirt costs today.

I guess it's the same with pipe prices - The Dunhill pipes I bought from their flagship store in Jermyn Street at around the same time as the shirts nearly all cost me between £30 - £40 each.

Turning left at Davidoff on the corner of Jermyn Street let's not forget made-to-measure shoes and hats - respectively, John Lobb Ltd. (founded 1866) and James Lock & Co. (founded 1676).

There were also a few great gun shops within a couple of hundred yards of Jermyn Street including Cogswell & Harrison (Piccadilly), Churchill Atkin Grant & Lang (Pall Mall) and Robert Evans (St. James' Street) - two out of three are no longer there.
 

weezell

Lifer
Oct 12, 2011
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Mac Baren: HH Burley Flake in a Falcon with a Meer bowl..
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