End of the week. Have Ashley's cavandish in my lorenzetti julius ceasar pipe. Time to relax with a pipe and margarita. 
***What Are You Smoking, May 2025?***
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Ampersand Flake in a Volkan Bulldog
View attachment 389804C&D Burley flake #1 in a brand new Algerian briar that only cost me $24.95 shipped.
The first thing I did when I got this in the mail was remove the varnish with steel wool and alcohol and then I added olive oil to give it a nice shine. The sap gives it a peppery spice and there is no better pipe in the world. This would be what God himself would smoke if he ever decided to come down to Bug Tussle and light up a pipe.Within 3-4 smokes this pipe will color a rich, deep brown just like a Turkish meerschaum.
Carter Hall in a geniune ancient, oil cured, aged, unstained, unvarnished, unpainted stereotypical hand carved four panel Marxman made at 27th West 24th Street 10 New York City New York, USA by the Seven Carvers, supervised by Louis Cowan, packaged and shipped by Helen Marx and her girls, and sold by Robert Marx with a lifetime guarantee against burn out.
Notice how this one has colored past oxblood to a dog turd shade of brown. As you smoke one of these, they get better and better.
My pipe is a whole lot better smoker, than your pipe, by design.
Grown men labored all day in the fields around Bug Tussle for fifty cents a day, when these pipes cost $3.50.
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HU Directors Cut in a Merchant Service Bing and Ginger Tea on the side.
The last pipe I bought, a genuine Bertram for $16.95 shipped, was made with the finest Algerian briar ever harvested by man. When Bertram Goldman started up Bertram pipes in Washington D.C., he sold Algerian briar pipes fashioned out of 200-year-old burls with so much sap, they would make a pine tree blush with envy. Those pipes sold for $3.50 at the time. These days, that same world-class Algerian briar pipe can be enjoyed by anyone who cares to purchase one for $16.95 off of the internet.
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Love that Becker! I'm ashamed to say I've never been to the Gatlinburier. I'll have to rectify that soon.
Weybridge in a PSD DGE Tribute pipe.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, haddock and green beans dinner with strawberries for dessert. I've a quarter of a bowl left of several years old Dunhill Elizabethan in a straight smooth, dark brown patent era 1952 Dunhill Bruyere ODA apple 806 B124 with a black vulcanite tapered stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. Watching the Brave-Dodgers game with Sleepy Suzy by my side.
Just faffing about working out ration numbers and gross margins on this rather gloomy Saturday morning. Smoking Dark Fragrant in a cob whilst I do so. Have to say I really like Juma as a pipe stem material as it has that vulcanite feel without the oxidation issues, just doesn't polish to a high gloss like vulcanite.
Now smoking year 2013 Capstan Gold Flake in a straight smooth brown Algerian briar post-WW2-mid 50s family era Barling’s Make Ye Olde Wood Special Made in England squat dublin with a tapered black ebonite stem. This pipe is from the estate of David Cuneo.
Firebird Flake in a Wiley with a Port Manhattan on the side.
On the menu for commute home was a fine little mixture of 5 brothers and C&D Yorktown loaded in my Peterson Short bulldog.
Hope everyone had a great Friday!
Hope everyone had a great Friday!
Haunted Bookshop from 2020 (Covid vintage!) in my Peterson B42 Darwin.
Gawith Hoggarth’s Aniseed Twist in the Luigi Viprati Collection Silver Dragon 
B pipe
B pipe
2021 Cringle Flake in my Yeti paneled egg.
MacBaren Navy Flake from 2014 in a Mauro Armellini bent billiard. This pipe and tobacco along with a cup of tea with honey is one the simple pleasures in my life.
8 year old Elizabethan Mixture in a lattice globe meer again.
Now smoking year 2012 Rolando’s Own in a smooth straight 1960s 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.
Well aged PS LTF in Murray’s Cardinal by Nate Rose.
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