***What are You Smoking, March 2022?***
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I have to say, this Peterson my mixture 965 I wasn’t sure about straight out of the can. I felt the oriental was a little much but, now that it has sit for a week in a jar, is now fantastic. Smoking my Sav 904 
GLP Westminster in a Castello great line bulldog.
A long day of prep comes to an end. Now it’s time for Blanton’s, GH American Black Cherry in an 1892 W. H. Newman Ltd. and watch a hockey game I recorded.
Your tins look to me to be no earlier than the 1980s with the "Made in the United Kingdom" printed on the paper labels.
The smallest tins available at the time (in the UK) were 25g - this trio of "Made in the United Kingdom" were bought in the early 1980s
Before, during and up till near the end of the 1970s the print read "Blended by Alfred Dunhill" and I well remember the blending bar in their flagship store in Jermyn Street.
There was also a large book on the counter which contained the favoured blends of countless generations of pipe smokers
From the late 1970s the print read "Made in England" at which time the blending was done by Robert McConnell (also then responsible for Davidoff blends - according to the paper discs inside the tins)
From the early 1980s the print read "Made in the United Kingdom" or "Made in Great Britain" at which point production switched to the Murrays factory
By the mid 1990s the royal warrant had gone and the long-winded print read
"Made in the UK in association with Dunhill Tobacco of London"
Anyway, enough of that, your tins will without a doubt give you the smokes of your life (at least going by my experience with Dunhill tins of similar vintage as these Dunhill blends only improve with age unlike some others brands from the period that I've popped in the past ten years which are but shadows of their former selves).
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Dunhill Dark Flake (2016) in a BST Billiard.
A Saturday evening pipe...
Relaxing in my study, doing some research and a bit of reading... Enjoying a glass of Redbreast 12yr Irish Whiskey and some Watch City Rougaroux in a custom sandblasted bent bulldog made by Mike Burkes.
Relaxing in my study, doing some research and a bit of reading... Enjoying a glass of Redbreast 12yr Irish Whiskey and some Watch City Rougaroux in a custom sandblasted bent bulldog made by Mike Burkes.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, wild caught catfish and snow peas dinner with strawberries and pineapple for dessert. I just finished smoking year 2014 Astley’s No. 55 in a 1915-1920 straight smooth dark brown BBB Own Make 150 apple with a silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Salty Dogs in a Peterson deluxe system 1s.
Pease Ashbury in a no-name basket pipe from 50 years ago.
A belated St Paddy's Day smoke.
With an Irish wife, and a son named Patrick, after my favourite uncle, how could I not celebrate Paddy's a Day
So a bowl of Peterson Founder's Choice
In a Peterson Sherlock Holmes Lestrade.
And a dram of Redbreast 21yo single pot still Irish Whiskey. Slainte
With an Irish wife, and a son named Patrick, after my favourite uncle, how could I not celebrate Paddy's a Day
So a bowl of Peterson Founder's Choice
In a Peterson Sherlock Holmes Lestrade.
And a dram of Redbreast 21yo single pot still Irish Whiskey. Slainte
Usual Saturday WCC Deluxe Crumb Cut in a Stanwell and bought some loose leaf tea. After dinner Wilke PB&C in a Radice Bent Dublin Sitter. . . .hmmmmm. Love me some Sat.
Not far from finishing this bowl of Erik Stokkebye 4th Generation Evening Flake in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson Ebony POTY 4AB No. 422/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Watching The Lady Vanishes. I didn't expect this movie to be so funny, but it is. Very enjoyable movie by Hitchcock. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.
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