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Dec 3, 2021
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Our friend, John, is visiting to watch the UFC 295 PPV. I’m going to start off the Early Prelims with Cult Blood Red Moon in one of my earliest Eugène-Léon Ropp pipes, a Cherrywood with a Natural Horn Stem. It’s stamped “Bussang,” so, it’s very likely it was made at Ropp’s original workshop there between 1870–1893.

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There’s a natural notch on the right side—I believe this piece of wood was selected so that the smoker’s right index finger fits in that groove for a perfect grip; there’s a natural notch at the back for the right thumb as well. I normally hold pipes in my left hand (I’m a lefty), but, I switch to my right with this pipe because it fits a righty grip so comfortably.

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JimInks

Sultan of Smoke
Aug 31, 2012
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638,123
Passing the half way mark on this bowl of year 2013 Rotary Navy Cut in a post-1938 Pre-Republic Peterson Dublin straight smooth X155 bulldog with a sterling silver band and a tapered black vulcanite p-lip stem. Nigel Bruce smoked this model in two Sherlock Holmes movies. Please consider asking Shane Ireland at Smoking Pipes and Peterson to bring the pipe back into production. Spent a bit of time keeping Sam the Scamp safe from the others while he ate. Tomato the Brave is very territorial and his sister Daisy the Feral Princess isn't much better when it comes to that. Daisy and Tomato have been hanging around here for three years now. They didn't used to be that way, but two new ferals has changed their attitudes.
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OzPiper

Lifer
Nov 30, 2020
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Remembrance Day / Armistice Day / Poppy Day
Silent contemplation and thanks to those who served and their sacrifice.
And thoughts of their loved ones, families and friends left behind.
On both sides of the conflict.

A pair of Barlings dated 1914.
1st up a straight billiard, vulcanite stem with a slotted button

A bowl of Escudo Navy De Luxe

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Scottmi

Lifer
Oct 15, 2022
3,846
55,652
Orcas, WA
An after fishing, after lunch, smoke of C&D From Beyond in a Moretti Morta Sandblasted Freehand, along with a mug of black coffee. I'm going to miss the "Fall Blitz" when it's over this year. Hopefully, it'll be similar to last year when we were still pulling in fish mid December here on Long Island.
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Your Moretti is just gorgeous. Love that work on the morta.
 

tfdickson

Lifer
May 15, 2014
2,330
46,686
East End of Long Island
2018 Old Dominion in my Castello bent bulldog.

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