Afternoon everyone, I just finished my first smoke in this 1914 Charles Maas “Crownpipe” billiard with military mount, I only got this yesterday and consider myself incredibly lucky to find a unsmoked 108 year old pipe. I broke it in with Germain’s 1820 Flake, I say broke in but it was like smoking a well seasoned bowl, no bitterness or new pipe taste, perhaps the finest bowl of 1820 I’ve had in fact.
I’m posting the picture of it with a Falcon to give an indication of scale, it’s a wee thing but has a decent sized bowl. It most likely had a case but I’m not going to lose any sleep over that, especially as it smokes like a dream.