Now smoking KBV Belsnickel Unreleased in a 2016 quarter bend Royal Meerschaum eagle claw egg meer with a black, gold and cream swirl amber colored acrylic tapered stem.
***What Are You Smoking, March 2021?***
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Late Entry- 0445 Smoked Lane Ready Rubbed in a Savinelli 9mm tapered bit billiard.Sorry.
Finished up a jar of 2014 McConnell’s Scottish Flake in a Savinelli Series III unvarnished billiard paired with some Maxwell House 
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Mac Baren Ready Rubbed Old Dark Fired in an MM Country Gentleman
Smoking Three Nuns in a Savinelli Punto Oro Bulldog. Water to pair.
I hope the Scottish flake is “good to the last smoke!”Finished up a jar of 2014 McConnell’s Scottish Flake in a Savinelli Series III unvarnished billiard paired with some Maxwell House
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Yeah, right next to that pouch of Granger that other dude was reefing on, apparenlty.
Dudes legit wearing a smoking jacket
Solani Aged Burley Flake in an amber stemmed meer poker.
Yes, almost like Tiger's Eye
and as you say God only knows how many years it took to get the pipe to look as cool as that
I've only owned the pipe since 1991 (bought at the auction of Tony Irving's "House of Pipes") so, if for the previous 100 - 140 years before it came into my hands, the majority of its long life was spent in the UK it might have witnessed some of the following:-
1851 The Great Exhibition opens at Crystal Palace
1854 Cholera Epidemic
1856 The first cigarette factory opens in Britain by Robert Gloag, manufacturing "Sweet Threes" / Construction of Big Ben completed
1863 The first underground railway opens in London
1868 The last public execution
1872 The First Football Association Cup Final
1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
1877 The world's first recording of the human voice was heard when the inventor of the phonograph, Thomas Edison, recited 'Mary Had A Little Lamb' and played it back
1878 The first public electric lighting in London
1883 The first electric railway
1887 The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes first appears in print / The invention of the gramophone
1888 Jack the Ripper murders
1894 London's Tower Bridge opens
1897 Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
1901 Queen Victoria dies
1908 The Summer Olympics
1912 RMS Titanic sinks with the loss of 1,503 lives after hitting an iceberg
1914-1918 World War One
1918 Women get the vote for the first time
1918-1919 The 'Spanish flu' epidemic kills more than 200,000 people in Britain
1926 General Strike / Scottish inventor and engineer John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of television
1928 British audiences were introduced to talking pictures when the 'The Jazz Singer' opened in London / Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin
1936 Edward VIII abdicated the throne to marry Wallis Simpson / The Jarrow March
1937 The jet engine invented by Sir Frank Whittle
1939-1945 World War Two / 1941 Luftwaffe blitz on many British cities
1948 The National Health Service is founded
1951 The Festival of Britain
1953 Coronation of Elizabeth II
1954 Roger Bannister breaks the four minute mile
1955 Commercial television starts
1956 Britain switches on its first nuclear power station - Calder Hall
1965 Death of Winston Churchill / Television advertising of tobacco products banned in the UK
1969 Concorde, the world’s first supersonic airliner developed by Britain and France, makes its maiden flight / Moon landing in Apollo 11 "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
1970 Tobacco manufacturers legally obliged to print a warning on the labels that smoking is a health hazard
1970-1995 Closure of London pipe shops including Astleys, Fribourg & Treyer, House of Bewley, H. Simmons, Charatan, Sullivan Powell ... later followed by G.Smith & Sons, Inderwick & Co. etc.
1971 The United Kingdom introduces decimal currency
1973 The UK joins and becomes a member state of the EU
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister
1994 The Channel Tunnel opened
1997 The UK hands back Hong Kong to China
2003 Tobacco advertising ban in the press and on billboards / EU regulations requires general health warnings displayed covering at least 30% of the surface of the pack/tin
2007 it became illegal to smoke in any pub, restaurant, nightclub, and most workplaces and work vehicles, anywhere in the UK.
2019 UK leaves the EU
2020 A national lockdown takes place due to the Coronavirus pandemic
Now onto a bit of 2012 PS Luxury Navy Flake in an Emerald MM. ️
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Some John Aylesbury Luxury Flake from Nov/2011.
Just put together a Becker bent brandy crafted for the now defunct Northern Oakland Tobacco and Pipe Club here in the suburbs of Detroit. Packed her with Pease’s new Windjammer and finished the charring light. Be glad when this mess is over with and perhaps form a new pipe club in this area.
Custom made at that. My wife complains about burns in my clothing. No worries with this and it doubles as a robe.
Glad to report I’m still alive. Yippee
CD Haunted Bookshop in a little Scott’s Burner Tomato on the commute home. What a simple, reliable blend.
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