***What Are You Smoking, June 2021?***
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Peterson Irish Flake in a German Clay.
Dunhill Nightcap with a tin date of November 2012 in a Dunhill Shell Cherrywood Poker from 1977
ODF in a Radice Sand Grain Canadian.
Now smoking a freshly opened tin of year 2016 Orlik Golden Sliced in a smooth brown medium bend Abbott 788 (Sasieni family era) author with a tapered black vulcanite stem. First time smoking this pipe.
On the deck enjoying a freshly popped jar of 2019 Gawith Hoggarth Dark Plug in a Charatan’s Make Authentic. Decaf coffee and good tunes for accompaniment. Plugs always age so well, and quickly too. Already a decent amount of crystals on the plug! It’s nowhere near as good as the Dark Plug from 2004 I finished up not long ago, but this has some spicy notes in the forefront that I am enjoying, not found in the older vintage. Oh….and the aroma is intoxicating!
My other Astley of 109 Jermyn St , London, Author shape with Davidoff GMs. I bought this pipe at Ashley's in 1995 shortly before they closed their shop - and what a pipe shop it was! 
Breaking in a new Morgan Bones Big Volcano with some BCA for this pleasant Va. evening. Enjoy your pipes and your evening folks!
SPC Plum Pudding in a Butz sitter
Just finished an Arturo Fuente Exquisitos Maduro on the back deck and now starting on some HH Bold Kentucky in a MM Legend 5th Ave. 
Not far from finishing this bowl of Granger in a straight smooth medium brown 1950s-60s Comoy’s Tradition 110B billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Just got the yard done. Relaxing with some C&D/Warped Cloud Hopper in my cigar leaf cob. Having a Topo Chico with a wedge of lime to drink.
From pocket pipe ...
... to reading pipe, Butz-Choquin had a pipe for just about every occasion -
the Origine was originally designed in 1857 and was the original pipe released to the world by Gustave Butz and Jean Choquin
These two bought in 1978 (same time as the Peterson & Glass catalogue ^)
This pic from Piberyger.dk showing an early model with albatross wing-bone extension
As can be seen the albatross wing bone extension was unsurprisingly somewhat longer than the more recent goose bone but that's what was used from the mid 19th into the 20th century where it was sometimes included in four-pipe sets to add versality or even with cased single pipes and I've even seen one included with a cased Calabash.
How the extension colours with use
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After
... to reading pipe, Butz-Choquin had a pipe for just about every occasion -
the Origine was originally designed in 1857 and was the original pipe released to the world by Gustave Butz and Jean Choquin
These two bought in 1978 (same time as the Peterson & Glass catalogue ^)
This pic from Piberyger.dk showing an early model with albatross wing-bone extension
As can be seen the albatross wing bone extension was unsurprisingly somewhat longer than the more recent goose bone but that's what was used from the mid 19th into the 20th century where it was sometimes included in four-pipe sets to add versality or even with cased single pipes and I've even seen one included with a cased Calabash.
How the extension colours with use
Before
After
Just spent a glorious two hours in the yard, a sunny, no humidity, breezy, afternoon, as I smoked 2016 Brebbia Latakia (Syrian) Flake No. 9 in a GBD Prehistoric 508 bent Billiard with a Perspex stem. A tall tumbler filled with Peach/Mango Green Tea, Honey Jack and a fistful of bergs, slaked my thirst.
Now smoking Sutliff Walnut Match in an early smooth brown Radice Tiger Eye G medium bend bulldog with a bamboo-style carving on the shank with a two dot black acrylic stem.
No feeling quite like that!! Congrats!!
2018 cabbie's mixture in Bonfiglioli smooth pot.
Capstan Blue in a 1911 BBB Chubby with Glokar Stem
GL Pease Jackknife Plug in a Savinelli 9mm saddle bit Apple (207).
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