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

[cigrmaster]

2007 Esoterica Stonehaven in a Jack Howell Billiard.

 

[Paul lec]

Evening smoke of Half and Half in a Kaywoodie Natural Burl with some herbal tea and Miles.

 

[rushx9]

Finishing off an old tin of EMP in a silver banded Castleford bent Yachtsman. Probably my least favorite classic Dunhill blend... notes of dead grass and paper bag are about all I get out of it. I much prefer Standard Mixture Mellow when I want less Latakia. Too bad they scrapped that gem of a blend.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

Black Frigate in a cob (MM General).

 

[virkia]

Merde de Cheval in a Jima. Just took delivery of a late Victorian or early 20C Chinese pipe rack, carved with five dragons. I think it’s Teak. View attachment 79735View attachment 79736

Amazing carving on your 'dragons chasing the pearl' rack - a motif used on any number of objects coming from the Orient from c.1900 to c.1920 such as photograph frames ...



... etc. and reminded me of one I have in storage except mine is almost black (heavier than you would expect) and hinged so that it folds flat.
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Borkum Riff Gold CHERRY & VANILLA in a group 3 Dunhill 'Oval Stem Pear' from 1978:-

 

[greeneyes]

My Oriental mixture in a John's Aristocrat by Comoy.

 

[JimInks]

Enjoyed a much needed snooze, and am close to finishing this bowl of year 2016 McClelland 2015 in a 1980,1983 hall marked medium bend black sandblasted silver band Peterson Donegal 805 Bulldog with a black vulcanite p-lip saddle stem. Dinner is next!

 

[SpookedPiper]

Wcc Dominion flk in Eltang mini Arne.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Back to the Samuel Gawith St.James Flake in the Astley's. From this morning.

 

[MrTom]

Good Day Folks Early Morning Pipe in a Rattray's Nimbus Calabash. Watching a YTPC video.

 

[addamsruspipe]

In the cave. Having some Macbaren Dark twist in a modified cob. ?

 

[Ahi Ka]

My most important post to date. Basking in the luck of the Irish. Gallaher’s IRISH Condor Plug in a 1903 K&P Meer.

 

[dcon]

GLP Quiet Nights in a Saseini 4 Dot Walnut #125 Rugby.

 

[virkia]

I am not sure if it's double stamped and I have not been able to find the date codes for it. I would be interested in learning more. Thanks.
Also the amber stem is very fragile as @jiminks was saying earlier so I may wrap it with vinyl tape when I smoke it again.

Front and back pics posted below.

J.B. without frame
Ernest Vincent BROWN trading as Josiah BROWN - Nottingham
CHE
1910
tobacconist and importer

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Pretty sure that the large engraved "JB" on the left side of the ferrule is not the maker's mark but the initials of a former owner of the pipe.
As for the amber stem: if at all possible, it wouldn't be a bad idea to get something made up in vulcanite as amber can become brittle with age and even normal clenching could be enough to cause a sad accident.

Those American Hillbillies were mostly escaping the potato famine. I didn't know they took to smoking their shillelaghs.

Antique shillelagh


Although not the longest nor the fattest out of all the cherry-wood pipes I've come across the Ropp Bussang is definitely the knobbliest and most shillelagh-like of any pipe I've ever seen:-
(comparison pic alongside a GBD Prehistoric)

 

[mso489]

C&D Stratfordshire, a sturdy English blend, in a smooth bent billiard Gianni pipe my sister bought me in Rotterdam.

 

[cshubhra]

Rattray’s Exotic Passion in a Savinelli Silver 606 EX

 

[renfield]

Sam Gawith Sam’s Flake in a meer lattice globe, again.

 

[Country Bladesmith]

War Horse Bar (Red) in a Rob Roy.

 

[JimInks]

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, rainbow trout and green beans dinner with strawberries for dessert. I'm close to being half way through this bowl of year 2017 Savinelli Doblone d’Oro in a smooth straight early ‘60s Lane era “William Conrad” Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort saddle stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink.

 

[JimInks]

I am not sure if it's double stamped and I have not been able to find the date codes for it. I would be interested in learning more. Thanks.
Also the amber stem is very fragile as @jiminks was saying earlier so I may wrap it with vinyl tape when I smoke it again.

Front and back pics posted below.

J.B. without frame
Ernest Vincent BROWN trading as Josiah BROWN - Nottingham
CHE
1910
tobacconist and importer

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You may want to consider getting a new stem for the pipe, and retire the one you have for safety's sake. The cracks suggest to me that it could crumble easily, and you'd hate for that to happen while you were smoking it.