@Brendan I broke or sold the ones I smoked the Captain Black Cherry ? in...@halfdan wants to know if he can stick his clays in that fire, get rid of his captain black cherry ghost ?
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Throughout the 19th and early 20th century Friendly Society clay pipes were a thing and included the Freemasons and The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes et al.
A few typical examples
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@virkia , very nice acquisition ! You did well on saving that one.Thank you. It's a Cogswell & Harrison 12 bore / gauge
Bought in 1974 as a total wreck from the owners of Hoghton Tower near my school in Lancashire for £30 when the estate was owned by friends of my mother. A few years later I had the gun cosmetically restored by Cogswells when they had a store in Piccadilly, W. London.
@AlanH , Very nice job! some nice Birdseye popping on that one!Tilbury in homemade #4
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thats one of a great shape Graig, do you have an idea if they do produce it today , with standard fishtail stem ,?