Easing into Monday with a bowl of Five Brothers to give me that slap to the face I need for a Monday. In a Sav Capri Root Briar with coffee, very black and bitter 
***What Are You Smoking, October 2024?***
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OJK in a WDC French Briar Wellington.
Hh BK in 1960 shell EC canadian. Early morning in the Purcell Mountains….
2021 Rouxgaroux in a Savinelli
VaBur with perique blend #3 with black coffee.
C&D Dark Burley 7 grams
C&D White Burley 7 grams
C&D Long Cut Perique 6 grams
Watch City Simply Red 5 grams
C&D Bright Virginia 3 grams
C&D Dark Burley 7 grams
C&D White Burley 7 grams
C&D Long Cut Perique 6 grams
Watch City Simply Red 5 grams
C&D Bright Virginia 3 grams
Booked train tickets for Nottingham Pipe Show next Sunday; Return of the Clay King!
Stanwell 203 Zebrano with my old comfort blend of tobacco.
Old Joe Krantz in this Digby Collector 263, with black coffee.
Currently reading: Buller's Victory by Richard Hough
Currently reading: Buller's Victory by Richard Hough
On a lunt this morning in the rain with my umbrella, I stopped at the house of a neighbor I'd played softball with some years back for a quick hello. He saw that I was smoking a pipe and asked if I would like some more pipes?
I said sure, I won't turn down free pipes!
He went inside and came out with a sandwich bag full of old pipes.
When I got home, I checked 'em out and found a Kaywoodie Campus smooth Prince, a Grabow Starfire wire brush rusticated diamond shanked billirard/sitter, a The Pipe, a Medico Apollo (bent), a no name straight meer, a Royal House bent billiard and 2 more grabow dukes. Stems all good condition. He hadn't smoked 'em in 40 yrs he said.
I've sterilized the Campus and am smoking some Match Holiday Mixture in it.
I said sure, I won't turn down free pipes!
He went inside and came out with a sandwich bag full of old pipes.
When I got home, I checked 'em out and found a Kaywoodie Campus smooth Prince, a Grabow Starfire wire brush rusticated diamond shanked billirard/sitter, a The Pipe, a Medico Apollo (bent), a no name straight meer, a Royal House bent billiard and 2 more grabow dukes. Stems all good condition. He hadn't smoked 'em in 40 yrs he said.
I've sterilized the Campus and am smoking some Match Holiday Mixture in it.
Monday morning was Match Victorian in the Briarlee Illustrious, again.
Loud construction at my house is making it hard to work and smoke. Glad it’s getting done though. Chenet’s cake in a Manduela
C&D Kellys Coin in a Glenn Tinsky Stippled Billiard
Rhythm & blues in the Anse, followed by Burley Morning in the diamond back cob. Coffee and getting some reading in. 
Chenets cake in a Former
KBV Acadian Flek in a pre-Cadogan Comoy's Sandblast medium billiard with morning coffee (french press, bien sûr, toujours).
Smoking Petersdon's Irish Cask inside this wonderfully politically incorrect tin. To complement my look as a late 19thC farm bailiff, I needed a Victorian tin that looks new, and so I did some surfing, found and purchased a) a new blank 2oz. tin, and b) a reproduction label from a specialist provider to very thorough re-enactors. Zoom in, and take a closer look at the label: it's so Jingo, so supremacist, bumptious and Kitsch, I couldn't resist... observe how, with that characteristic British Pluck (TM) inherent in the Anglo-Saxon race, a red-coated, pith-helmeted Tommy is single-handedly holding off a swarm of nondescript brown heathen types with his wounded platoon commander's .450 Adams revolver, as the savages advance with their spears - doubtless the Gatling (off-picture) has jammed.
At first, I was suspicious: didn't it seem to be trying a little too hard? I did some further research on British Pluck Flaked Tobacco labels, and was pleasantly surprised to see that here I had The Real Thing (or at least, a copy of same): a slightly later version shows a pack of what are unmistakably Boers throwing away their Mausers in panicked flight from a British cavalryman who has just stuck one of them with his sabre, and an infantryman advancing in close support, bayonet fixed to his Lee-Metford (They don't like it up 'em, Mister Mainwaring).
If Messrs. W.D. & H.O. Wills had produced a ready-rubbed pipe shag called White Man's Burden, I couldn't have been more astonished.
I'm left wondering what kind of weed British Pluck (TM) was. Contemporary advertisements inform the beholder that it is "Flaked Virginia". That covers a multitude, of course. I imagine it was cheap, though.
At first, I was suspicious: didn't it seem to be trying a little too hard? I did some further research on British Pluck Flaked Tobacco labels, and was pleasantly surprised to see that here I had The Real Thing (or at least, a copy of same): a slightly later version shows a pack of what are unmistakably Boers throwing away their Mausers in panicked flight from a British cavalryman who has just stuck one of them with his sabre, and an infantryman advancing in close support, bayonet fixed to his Lee-Metford (They don't like it up 'em, Mister Mainwaring).
If Messrs. W.D. & H.O. Wills had produced a ready-rubbed pipe shag called White Man's Burden, I couldn't have been more astonished.
I'm left wondering what kind of weed British Pluck (TM) was. Contemporary advertisements inform the beholder that it is "Flaked Virginia". That covers a multitude, of course. I imagine it was cheap, though.
Smoking the first third of Condor, in a MM General bent. ![IMG_3544[13144].jpg](https://pipesmagazine.com/forums/data/attachments/340/340527-f86ff46befc2ed4d6e2082e5c553dbaa.jpg "IMG_3544[13144].jpg")
Neat Pipe! Lovat or Lumberman? any idea what year?
I forgot to mention the pipe... an African Meerschaum Rhodesian, a poor, beat up old thing included in a job lot I bid for. Looks as if it spent years in a chap's pocket, rubbing against coins or maybe a waitcoat fob eatch chain. I've rubbed out the worst of the chips and am now re-beeswaxing and smoking to darken the pallor of the smootrhed-out patches.
By the way, it has a tiny rhinocerous stamped on the left hand side of the stem. Can anyone identify the maker from this, please?
By the way, it has a tiny rhinocerous stamped on the left hand side of the stem. Can anyone identify the maker from this, please?
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