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

[Skapie]

Love your pipe - most bodacious - but the bowl looks to me more Hungarian than Oom Paul i.e. more rounded/egg-shaped than cylindrical straight -up.

Speaking about the Oom Paul - Afrikaans/Dutch for ‘Uncle Paul’
(Paulus Kruger 1824-1904 - general and later president) you've got to go back to the second Boer War 1899-1902.
The shape was named after him and was also known as the Kruger pipe.

"In 1898, Kruger’s friends ordered a Peterson Oversized Patent O.2 for his birthday with an engraved crest of the Transvaal on the bowl. While this was merely a special order (and not a gift from K&P), it caused a political publicity storm that was in newspapers around the world, many featuring a photo of the pipe in its clamshell case with its Gratis Pipe Tool and extra stem."
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A popular shape at the time with a similar example seen in the mouth of Charles Peterson in this 1910 sketch.
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The shape continued with various models including the 02, the 02B, the XL02 etc.

All the main pipe-makers of the day (1900) had examples including BBB ...
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... and even though all originally had roughly the same bowl size smaller sizes became available from the 1920s onwards
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And the correct pronounciation of Oom is rather difficult. The closest I can get to explain it is that the OO sound is a bit like the EWI in lewis. If you were to pronounce lewis quickly you’d get it right. Paul is pronounced like you would pronounce pole, I suppose. So Ewim Pole would sound almost phonetically correct.

In Afrikaans culture, all males around 20 years older than yourself would be addressed as “oom”, until he corrects you by saying “call me Paul” or whatever.

If you were to ever visit South Africa, the Kruger gate to the Kruger National Park has a large statue of Paul Kruger. Take your Oom Paul with for a great photograph!

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am almost half way through this bowl of Wilke No. 222 in a late 40s, early 50s straight black sandblasted Wagner British Thorn 495 (Comoy’s second) pot with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking D&R VIP in a 2004 smooth long shank Trever Talbot Ligne Bretagne Faite en Bretagne 4/3 lumberman with a black vulcanite tapered stem. Working and listening to Vic and Sade. Been raining all evening, and I wonder if I'll see any of the ferals come out to eat.

 

[RobNYC]

Black Irish X in a Radice Rind billiard.

 

[leonardbill1]

Folklore in a 1957 Dunhill Shell shape 60.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Wilke Hearth of Galway in an undated smooth straight medium brown made in France Saillard Lord Clerit lumberman with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[UncleRasta]

Pegasus to start the day. After work an unedifying bowl of HH Burley Flake. Goodnight smoke was Sutliff Match Elizabethan, the only satisfying smoke of the day.

 

[PaulTheScandinavian]

Morning smoke of Mc Barens Navy Flake rubbed out in a Dunhill shell briar 3109 short canadian

 

[JimInks]

Not far from finishing this bowl of Low Country Pipe & Cigar Natural Virginia & Burley in a 2020 straight black sandblasted Merchant Service “Bing” Standard with a nickel band and black vulcanite tapered stem.

 

[Jwebb90]

Marlin Flake in an Altinay.

 

[JimInks]

Finished work, and this bowl of Watch City Simply VOriental in a straight smooth medium brown 1930s Wilshire 5 bulldog (Comoy’s second) made for John’s Pipe Shop in Los Angeles with a black vulcanite saddle stem.

 

[JimInks]

Last smoke of the day is year 2012 Carter Hall in a black rusticated medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY 4AB No. 437/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Reading while this bowl lasts.

 

[Davy Jones]

Good morning, I'm starting the day with MB Vanilla Roll Cake in my Cumberland 4103 Straight Billiard with silver band and Brindle stem (2020). And good ol' black tea on the side.

 

[JOHN72]

Good morning. We start with the third pipe of the morning with. mb: Virginia Flake, in a MM Charles Towne Cobbler......................

 

[PipeIT]

Smoking Germain Royal Jersey Dark Cavendish gifted to me by @Devil Anse in a Radice Rind Straight.

Be healthy and well everyone!

 

[TheWhale13]

Today's morning smoke is Meistermischung 88 in an AKB meer. Paired with some nice coffee. I will try to collect my thoughts and make a review of this blend soon, but all I can say right now is that it is very nice.

 

[Latakia Dave]

That's another nice one!

@reloader , thanks man!

 

[Latakia Dave]

The Mapledog looks great!

@PiedmontPipe ,appreciate it buddy!

 

[Latakia Dave]

Beautiful pipe sir!

@Streeper541 , thank you sir!

 

[judcole]

Amphora Burley in a Mark Twain.