A quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2018 Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in a straight smooth brown 1960s-70s BBB Own Make 506 Canadian with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite stem.
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C&D House Reserve, the green one, on the ride home from work.
Enjoyed a tasty golden delicious apple, and am off to work with a bowl of D&R Raccoon’s Friend in a pre-1980s straight dark brown Comoy's Sandblast 186 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Smoking more McClelland Brindle Flake in a Bjarne. Man, I forgot how good this one is, definitely one of my favorite McClelland Virginias. Age has been very kind to this particular tin. Last year I was completely underwhelmed by an old Red & Black tin I smoked through, I’m hoping that was just one off.
Jackknife in a ‘61 Dunhill. Last bowl of the day, hit the spot. ‘Night all!
Now smoking Wilke No. 222 in an undated, unbranded straight smooth dark brown made in France Los Alton VBF billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
I really should have purchased more than one tin of Peterson Flake a year or so ago. Smoking towards the end of the one tin I did buy, I wonder whether I will enjoy a fresh tin quite as much.
Peterson's Old Dublin in a Tonni Nielsen No. 5 Nautilus.
Now smoking Watch City Blue Ridge Special in a straight smooth ebony post-WW2 LHS Sterncrest 91 bulldog with a sterling silver band, a diamond shank and a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Motzek strang (German blend) in my Amorelli I got from a pipe shop in Germany. Also not sure why but my best smoking pipe by far. 
@PipeIT I think SG Black Forest is the pipe baccy closest to my imagined "Clay King" clay pipe blend:KBV Anne Cap in a 1931-1967 BBB Wyteway Billiard with a vulcanite stem.
If epitome is the correct choice in wording, Cavendish to me is the epitome of pipe tobacco, one of the best representations as to what pipe tobacco is.
Of course, certain English and Aros, I believe fill similar roles, of historical references, meaning what people over the centuries have come to recognize as pipe tobacco.
I’m so much in love with cavendish, I’d love to have the vast majority of my blends filled with cavendish like this blend, or similar.
I can really see myself in an old English pub and a clay with this @halfdan and Sir Thomas Cavendish, for whom Cavendish is named after, was an English Explorer.
Cavendish, certainly has an English vibe to me.
A little reading for those that know little to nothing about Cavendish.
To halfdan and all the Cavendish lovers!What is Cavendish Pipe Tobacco? | Smokingpipes.com
Learn more about one of the most versatile blending components in pipe tobacco: Cavendish.www.smokingpipes.com
Be well everyone!
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Passing the quarter mark on this bowl of year 2016 Sutliff Revelation Match in a straight smooth brown post-WWII Kingsway (Comoy’s) London Made 61 Canadian with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Working and listening to one of my favorite shows, Information Please, from my radio collection.
Morning smoke of Amphora red full in a Dunhill Tanshell 197 long Billiard, yet I have to admit in comparison with the regular brown Amphora this red is quite wearisome.I reckon I will stop buying it from now on
Finished work for the day, fed my cats and the ferals, and have about a quarter of a bowl left of year 2019 C&D Yorktown in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Terracotta 4AB No.108/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem.
Last smoke of the day is Wilke No. 515 in a 1998 smooth straight Butz-Choquin Bistro 1501 pot with a black vulcanite saddle stem. This was the original 515 that Basil Rathbone smoked.
HU Tobacco - Louisiana Broken Flake in a HCA Stanwell and a Cup of Joe.
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