***What are You Smoking, March 2022?***

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Congratulations Brewfan!

Dear Mr Dino Belated Birthday wishes to You, and all the best to Your great country

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Morning smoke of Hu Tobacco Dockworkers flake mixed with some Amphora Burley out of Castello Old Antiquari G Liverpool

 

[JimInks]

Just finished work, and this bowl of Wilke Crystal Palace in a dark brown smooth straight post-WW2 LHS Certified Purex 79 bulldog with a nickel ferrule and tenon with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[JimInks]

Since my last four smokes were in bulldog pipes, I figured I'd do that once more before bedtime: Watch City Mr.B’s in a straight smooth dark brown 1933-40 Medico Frank patent 1967585 bulldog with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Reading while this bowl lasts.

 

[jewman22]

C&D Apricots & Cream in a Stanwell.

 

[gamzultovah]

Watch City Rouxgaroux to christen my newly acquired Radice T/B (Twin Bore).

 

[TheIronMonkey]

Watch City Rouxgaroux to christen my newly acquired Radice T/B (Twin Bore).
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Does a twin bore smoke appreciably different? I've never had one and only seen pics.

 

[Birddog66]

Love the composition, and the salute to a great sportsman. But at 52? Dayammm!

My English "Mum" married a chap who went by the name of "Hoppe" or maybe it was "The Hopper" on the pitch due to his delivery. He retired before I could ever see him, and I am guessing that was in the 60's. I think he was All England, but my info is sparse.

Anyone heard of him?

I agree, 52 is no age to go, I just heard that the Australian government has offered a State funeral for him, first time I believe for a sportsman.

I believe your thinking of Hopper Read, he played through the 1930’s/40’s, long before my time. The name rung a bell but I had to look him up on Google. A demon fast bowler.

 

[Birddog66]

Early 1980s DR. PLUMB STANDARD / MEERSCHAUM

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+ Samuel Gawith WESTMORLAND MIXTURE
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Lining briar bowls and Calabash gourds with meerschaum goes back to at least the 1880s
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As for 'doctors' being involved in pipe-naming off the top of my head I can think of only three - Dr. Grabow and Dr. Sir Morell Mackenzie apart from Dr. Plumb and out of these three two were actually real doctors

'Dr.' Plumb
Was actually Mr. Plumb - although Dr. to his friends - and was a chartered accountant
"the late Leslie Watts Plumb, FCA. (1889-1941) Before World War II, he managed the business affairs of a smoking pipe factory Verguet Freres/ Marechal Ruchon at St Claude in the French Jura Mountains... where his Plumb Family lived in a flat adjacent to the factory premises.
He lent his name to the Dr. Plumb Smoking Pipe & I had always understood that he played a part in its promotion & design of the pipe's unique aluminum cooling filter system."
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Dr. Grabow
"Dr. Paul E. Grabow (1868-1965) stated that he developed, or helped develop, the Dr. Grabow brand of pipes. This was a tactic used to convince people that a pipe developed, endorsed, and used by a medical physician would be 'more healthful' than a pipe that was not developed by someone in the medical community."
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Courtesy Pipedia

Morell Mackenzie
"Sir Morell Mackenzie (1837-1892) was a British physician, one of the pioneers of laryngology in the United Kingdom. Nevertheless he failed to diagnose the throat cancer of German Emperor Frederick III ..."
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1895 Harrods catalogue
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From a BBB paper by Jacques Cole
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Excellent information as usual, thank you. I’ve often been curious about meer lined pipes, are they all made using solid meerschaum fitted into the bowl or are some of them made using a moulded meerschaum cement compound?

 

[Birddog66]

A little vanilla custard aro from the Oxmoor Smoke Shoppe in Louisville KY in a 2020 Peterson Christmas poker, paired with an Old Forester single barrel. Celebrating success after finding out the job I have been pushing for in Louisville is mine, cross country move upcoming.View attachment 132462

Congrats on the new job, I hope all goes well for you.

 

[judcole]

Amphora Burley in a Country Gent.

 

[Birddog66]

About to have Haunted Bookshop in a Savinelli Sherwood Rock Briar Bulldog 624. The second pic is the same pipe before getting cleaned up using La Belle Epoque Before and After Deoxidizer and Restoration Balm. I probably should've soaked the stem longer to get it closer to black, but, I can always give it another treatment next time. I wanted to get it in smokable condition first.

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Mind if I ask what de-oxidiser you used for the stem?

 

[simong]

I agree, 52 is no age to go, I just heard that the Australian government has offered a State funeral for him, first time I believe for a sportsman.

I believe your thinking of Hopper Read, he played through the 1930’s/40’s, long before my time. The name rung a bell but I had to look him up on Google. A demon fast bowler.

They're going to change the name of the southern stand at the MCG in his honour. Quite right too! RIP Shane.
Velvan Plug in a Barber 'B' line.

 

[Birddog66]

I just got a big bag of Boneyard in the post, I know it’s a odds and ends blend and each bowl will probably be a little different but my first one was a very pleasant surprise.
About to fire up a second in this bent meer.

 

[Tar Wheel]

Good morning all. I’m going to change it up and go with a light virginia this morning. Vauen No. 14 in a cob, with a cup of coffee. It’s a little chilly this morning but I’m going to wrap up, go out on the porch and greet the day.

 

[AppalachianPipe92]

Some Fillmore out of a Peterson Army 999 now that the sun is up.

 

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A little vanilla custard aro from the Oxmoor Smoke Shoppe in Louisville KY in a 2020 Peterson Christmas poker, paired with an Old Forester single barrel. Celebrating success after finding out the job I have been pushing for in Louisville is mine, cross country move upcoming.View attachment 132462

Congratulations!

 

[JKoD]

CF 21 in an Savinelli Oceano 606KS. I love a slow Saturday morning.

 

[UncleRasta]

Good Saturday morning all. Up bright and early for footie and smoking Old Dark Fired in a Rossi Rubino Pot.

 

[JOHN72]

A little vanilla custard aro from the Oxmoor Smoke Shoppe in Louisville KY in a 2020 Peterson Christmas poker, paired with an Old Forester single barrel. Celebrating success after finding out the job I have been pushing for in Louisville is mine, cross country move upcoming.View attachment 132462

Congratulations Sir Brewfan..................

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