***What Are You Smoking, November 2023?***

[The Amish Tyrant]

Gawith Kendal Gold in a Savinelli Arcobaleno 606KS that used to be blue.

The pipe is working itself back to its natural color. The tobacco is a mild, pleasant, and smooth Virginia that I wish I'd known about when doing RYO.

 

[JimInks]

A third of the way through this bowl of Wilke Surbrug’s Crystal Palace in a dark brown smooth straight post-WW2 LHS Certified Purex 79 bulldog with a nickel ferrule and tenon with a black vulcanite saddle stem. I messed up my last post because I was smoking Watch City Blue Ridge. That particular LHS bulldog is dedicated to that blend. Crystal Palace is dedicated to the pipe you are seeing.

 

[OzPiper]

The 3rd French briar of the trio is the first Bulldog I bought in the early 1970s - a Butz Choquin with a saddle stem.
Little did I know then that it would be the first of over 40 bulldogs in my kennel

A bowl of the last of my tin of Former’s Straight Grain Flake - cube cut

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking D&R Penhooker Silver in a straight smooth brown undated pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock 263 Canadian with a nickel band and a tapered black p-lip stem.

 

[PipeIT]

Germain’s Royal Jersey Dark Cavendish in a Radice Clear Bent Dublin with Baldo Baldi briar aged over 20 years.

Having a bottle of New Belgium Honey Orange Tripel to go along with it.

Honey Orange Tripel | New Belgium Brewing

www.newbelgium.com

Hope everyone is doing good, and having a nice weekend!

Off now to go watch a movie on Hulu.

 

[ukbob]

Starting off with a bowl of Sherlock Holmes in a Ben Wade Lovat , on this grey overcast Sunday morning.

 

[JimInks]

A third of the way through this bowl of year 2021 Watch City Glass Slipper Micro-Batch in a post-2000 straight brown sandblasted Tom Eltang cherrywood with a black acrylic saddle stem.

 

[JimInks]

Almost half way through this bowl of Watch City American Cut Plug Mixture in a smooth medium bend terracotta Peterson POY 2023 X160 464/1100 military mount egg with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. This'll do it for me today.

 

[samuelgawith01]

Vincent Manil Petit Robin in the Ingo Garbe pot billiard

 

[JOHN72]

Good morning. Smoking the first third of Capstan Gold, in a MM Diplomat bent. Finally a calm day without strong winds. 66,2 °F sunny day. I wish you a happy Sunday.

 

[Gimlet]

Good morning. Smoking the first third of Capstan Gold, in a MM Diplomat bent. Finally a calm day without strong winds. 66,2 °F sunny day. I wish you a happy Sunday.View attachment 258784

I had to do a double-take there. That picture reminded me of Portland Bill in England:


Not a place to try and light a pipe...

 

[Tom Sawtooth]

Some football, my boy Hank, and a bowl of SG Black XX Twist. Terrific.

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Your boy Hank is tired.

 

[Tom Sawtooth]

HU Tobacco - Louisiana Broken Flake in a Peterson and a Cup of Joe.

 

[Birddog66]

The next pipe is a handsome GBD straight billiard with French hallmarks - a diamond and a boar’s head.
No date letter but a vulcanite stem with orific bit.
So pre-mid 1920s

A bowl of cube-cut Sam Gawith’s St. James Flake

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The French hallmarks are very complicated and seldom had a date letter, the boars head is a silver guarantee mark and the diamond a maker’s mark. The guarantee marks and were often in the form of animal and insects or the heads of gods like Minerva and Mercury, your boars head just means it was made for the domestic market and post 1838. I’m still learning about them as it’s vastly different from British silver.
Hope that helps, sorry if I’m telling you something you already knew.

 

[Birddog66]

Germain’s Royal Jersey Dark Cavendish in a Radice Clear Bent Dublin with Baldo Baldi briar aged over 20 years.

Having a bottle of New Belgium Honey Orange Tripel to go along with it.

Honey Orange Tripel | New Belgium Brewing

www.newbelgium.com

Hope everyone is doing good, and having a nice weekend!

Off now to go watch a movie on Hulu.

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What do you make of that blend? I’ve had most Germain’s but not that one and have long been curious.

 

[Birddog66]

It’s actually sunny here today after weeks of rain wind and stormy weather. Took WeeBay out with some Kramer’s New Mix in the Civic Zulu and now I’m gonna have another much needed coffee and some Murray’s Erinmore in the small billiard from the Kaywoodie matched grain set. A good friend gave me a couple of tins of this yesterday, it’s delicious, rich and sweet.

 

[JOHN72]

I had to do a double-take there. That picture reminded me of Portland Bill in England:

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Not a place to try and light a pipe...

That sounds great. Sometimes I don't have time to post the photo of the tobacco with a pipe, and I look in my folders of photo archives. I love the lighthouses on the cliffs, and those spectacular sea areas.

 

[JOHN72]

I had to do a double-take there. That picture reminded me of Portland Bill in England:

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Not a place to try and light a pipe...

Thanks my friend for sharing. That photo is spectacular.

 

[Gimlet]

That sounds great. Sometimes I don't have time to post the photo of the tobacco with a pipe, and I look in my folders of photo archives. I love the lighthouses on the cliffs, and those spectacular sea areas.

I do. Check out this series.

Great Lighthouses of Ireland - Apple TV

This series tells the fascinating story of Ireland's lighthouses and their continuing importance in modern Irish life. Visually spectacular the series…

tv.apple.com

 

[Lost Somnambulist]

Starting this Sunday morning off with Balkan Supreme in an old lidded mystery pipe I've been bringing back to life.