***What Are You Smoking, May 2021?***

[Ziggywm]

Would you trade the Arcadia tin that was one of Wilke tobaccos best blends.

John, I just can't part with my Acadia tin. I found it on eBay years ago and as a life long aficionado of SH, I just had to have it with my collection of pipes and rare books. As you may know, it is one of the blends mentioned in the Canon. The times I have been at 221b in London I only wished I could fire my pipe. I started reading the stories when I was 10 years old, and it still fires my imagination. It will go to my son when I pass. When he was 10 years old we sat aside the fireplace at 221b when he asked me if Mr. Holmes really lived. I could only say, "You will have to decide that for yourself."

 

[craig61a]

Now smoking 1940s Philip Morris Revelation in an unbranded '70s Charatan smooth straight Billiard with a black vulcanite saddle stem. A friend gave me this pouch, and a pouch from the 1970s.

Queueing Ozzy from the 1980’s... ?

 

[tnfan]

2015 F&T Cut Virginia Plug in a Castello “Castello“ 55.

 

[Fiddlepiper]

SG Navy Flake in a 1973 Dunhill Root Briar Billiard.

 

[samuelgawith01]

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Nice stack.?

 

[cshubhra]

Esoterica Tilbury in a Comoy’s Golden Grain

 

[MattRVA]

C&D Orion’s Arrow in a bent MM diplomat 5th avenue.

 

[virkia]

W.O. Larsen SELECTED BLEND No. 50 SWEET MIX in a group 3 Dunhill '1/4 Bent Dublin' from 1979:-

 

[craig61a]

John, I just can't part with my Acadia tin. I found it on eBay years ago and as a life long aficionado of SH, I just had to have it with my collection of pipes and rare books. As you may know, it is one of the blends mentioned in the Canon. The times I have been at 221b in London I only wished I could fire my pipe. I started reading the stories when I was 10 years old, and it still fires my imagination. It will go to my son when I pass. When he was 10 years old we sat aside the fireplace at 221b when he asked me if Mr. Holmes really lived. I could only say, "You will have to decide that for yourself."

There are several of those tins available on ePay right now...

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking 1970s Philip Morris Revelation in a post-1952 Grant’s Pipe Shop Corinthian Deluxe 409 (made by Comoy’s) smooth brown medium bend bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem. First time smoking this pipe.

 

[das3353]

GH Brown Flake Unscented in a Pete SH Hudson

 

[dcon]

2018 Esoterica Margate in a Peterson Arklow XL11 Bent Dublin.

 

[jaytex1969]

C&D Pegasus in a BriarWorks Poker.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

PS 2 Whiskey in a MM Carolina Gent, the nose warmer with the tomato red acrylic stem.

I didn’t know your had a Carolina Gent!

 

[FurCoat]

Savinelli 145 in a Molina. I'm finding a lot of similarities with this blend and 140. Kind of like C&D followed up CRF with CRF with perique. I say this in a good way as I enjoy all of the above mentioned blends. 145 is not too heavy and the topping makes for an interesting and well balanced VaPer that I will enjoy this summer. I like it a lot.

 

[Zepfan84]

Now smoking 1940s Philip Morris Revelation in an unbranded '70s Charatan smooth straight Billiard with a black vulcanite saddle stem. A friend gave me this pouch, and a pouch from the 1970s.
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Isn't Revelation the tobacco that Albert Einstein smoked?

 

[virkia]

Afternoon everyone, SPC Mississippi River Rum Barrel Aged in a newly acquired Meer, it’s been broken and repaired as a nose warmer, the gold band says Made in Holland GOEDE WAAGEN. It means freight wagon which is a strange name for a pipe. View attachment 78800

Goedewaagen meerschaum? That comes as a surprise to me as I believe the company - the longest continuously operating pipe maker in the world (from 1779 to 1982) - only ever made clay/ceramic pipes.

I had a good afternoon nap, so now I am ready for a longer/later than usual night. Peterson 1865 in the Falcon with the new twisted stem. Alcohol free beer and lemonade mix for drinking. Listening to "Lankum", a modern-traditional Irish band. If you like the Irish Folk genre, they are very very good. Earlier today, while attending a not so interesting teleconference, I made a sketch on the paper... don't tell my employer...

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Not a bad representation of the contents of the bowl but I'd suggest adding a small coin of THREE NUNS in the middle to match the doodle.

 

[JimInks]

About a third of the way through this bowl of Wilke Peanut Butter in a 1980s black sandblasted slight bend Savory’s Argyll 281 Cherrywood with a black vulcanite tapered stem. Watching the Braves prove why they haven't been winning.

 

[JimInks]

Isn't Revelation the tobacco that Albert Einstein smoked?

Yes, it was. And my hair is starting to look like his.

 

[JimInks]

How does it compare to Epiphany?

Similar only because the topping faded some. Epiphany is rougher, and less sweeter with a tad more burley and Latakia than any version of Relevation I have smoked. In case you're curious, I've smoked Revelation in every decade it was made from this 1940s new-to-me pouch to the final 2004 production.