***What Are You Smoking, May 2021?***
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PC Match Elizabethan, a Va/Per, in a smooth bent Rhodesian by Kemperling, handmade in Austria, with a broad bit and open draw, my sister bought me when in Austria.
Eso ASTB in a WDC Jumbo.
It is the one with the amber colored stem. Took a pic to show the progression of this maker and style of pipe. Top is a KBB Chesterfield, the Jumbo and finally the WDC Wellington.
It is the one with the amber colored stem. Took a pic to show the progression of this maker and style of pipe. Top is a KBB Chesterfield, the Jumbo and finally the WDC Wellington.
Dobie’s Four Square Cavendish in an AKB Lattice Cherrywood Meerschaum carved by Tekin.
Still smoking my Gawith and 
Hogarth Dark Flake Aromatic from earlier in the Butz Choquin 9mm bent.This is a tobacco after my own heart.Best after a meal.
Hogarth Dark Flake Aromatic from earlier in the Butz Choquin 9mm bent.This is a tobacco after my own heart.Best after a meal.
Not far from finishing this bowl of G&H Kendall Kentucky in a medium bend egg 2017 Royal Meerschaum Dragon meer with a black and cream swirl amber colored acrylic tapered stem.
2012 Wessex Brigade Campaign Dark Flake in a Brian Ruthenberg Apple.
Spark Plug again this time in a Ben Wade Hand Model. I ran it through a coffee grinder this time and dried it for a couple hours. It packed and burned much better but I found myself missing the surprise flavor shots that I got with a more crude preparation 
Sam Gawith Sam’s Flake in a meer lattice globe.
@Birddog66
I’m smoking Golden Days of Yore in this Dr Plum “Seventy” that I got today from the same little shop I got the Stanwell, same price too. I’ve no idea what shape you’d call it but it actually smokes quite well and a little mineral oil has brought out quite a nice grain for what must have been an inexpensive pipe. View attachment 80128View attachment 80129
Shape looks lovely and very similar to this GBD showing on the Pipedia site -
listed as a 9665 ('Bent Poker- Sitter')
although looks to me to have a smidgeon of 'Skater' in its DNA with a very 1970s flared base:-
Also spotted on eBay ...
... and elsewhere:-
There's also a Kaywoodie connection with your pipe and GBD:-
Considering the connection GBD/Dr. Plumb/Kaywoodie I guess it's not surprising that shapes crossover occasionally.
The Dr. Plumb was developed by the Parisian sales manager J.B. Rubinovich in 1925 when GBD France needed “a cheap line of pipes" especially for the Canadian market. In fact the new brand was named after Mr. Rubinovich’s secretary Leslie W. Plumb whose most important business was "to doctor the figures" in the ledgers.
(from Pipedia)
I’m smoking Golden Days of Yore in this Dr Plum “Seventy” that I got today from the same little shop I got the Stanwell, same price too. I’ve no idea what shape you’d call it but it actually smokes quite well and a little mineral oil has brought out quite a nice grain for what must have been an inexpensive pipe. View attachment 80128View attachment 80129
Shape looks lovely and very similar to this GBD showing on the Pipedia site -
listed as a 9665 ('Bent Poker- Sitter')
although looks to me to have a smidgeon of 'Skater' in its DNA with a very 1970s flared base:-
Also spotted on eBay ...
... and elsewhere:-
There's also a Kaywoodie connection with your pipe and GBD:-
Considering the connection GBD/Dr. Plumb/Kaywoodie I guess it's not surprising that shapes crossover occasionally.
The Dr. Plumb was developed by the Parisian sales manager J.B. Rubinovich in 1925 when GBD France needed “a cheap line of pipes" especially for the Canadian market. In fact the new brand was named after Mr. Rubinovich’s secretary Leslie W. Plumb whose most important business was "to doctor the figures" in the ledgers.
(from Pipedia)
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A quarter of the way through this bowl of Feuerwachter Enterprises VaPer Twist in a mid-1970s Ed Burak smooth brown medium bend Connoisseur bulldog with a black saddle acrylic stem. This long, tasty smoke will be interrupted by dinner. Such a great pipe to smoke it in.
I wish you'd tell us what you're smoking in those nice pipes. I'm always curious to know these things.
Penzance in a stanwell - pondering the hype.....?
W. O. Larsen OLD FASHIONED in a group 2 Dunhill Chestnut 'Dublin' from 1985:-
It is a local tobacconist's English blend with extra Lakatia. Today I got the local tobacconist's "Oriential" blend based on his English. At this point I now only have these two blends.
I appreciate your posts, BTW.
In the cave having some Bosses Blend in a Jobey cob.
Samuel Gawith 1792 Flake in a Mullins & Westley Dublin
Wilke peanut butter in a Peterson Shamrock. Listening to baseball with a racer 5.... yum 
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