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Oh it is an antique. I just liked the color. I just looked it up, interesting. No idea what it is, I thought it was Vaseline glassI believe so.. unless I'm incorrect.
But if it's an antique then I'd bet a fiddle a' gold that if you held a blacklight to it that sucker would glow like chernobyl
Yessir, I'm no expert either but I believe they were essentially the same thing other than an extra special surprise insideOh it is an antique. I just liked the color. I just looked it up, interesting. No idea what it is, I thought it was Vaseline glass
hahah
They made them for food storage alsoYessir, I'm no expert either but I believe they were essentially the same thing other than an extra special surprise inside
what were they thinking?,
It might be but it won’t glow because of the uranium. It’s only slightly radioactive (billions of years for half-life). They really hot isotopes have half-lives of seconds to a few years.Oh it is an antique. I just liked the color. I just looked it up, interesting. No idea what it is, I thought it was Vaseline glass
Tried asking Perplexity and it offered this...but no way of knowing if it is all AI hallucination or not? Does provide citations.
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Yes, there is a clear literary and flavor theme uniting Cornell & Diehl’s Old Ones pipe tobacco series. The series draws both its names and its conceptual foundation from the Cthulhu Mythos and related stories of H. P. Lovecraft—works describing cosmic horror, ancient deities, and madness. The names of the blends, such as Awakened Elder, Dreams of Kadath, Innismouth, Mad Fiddler Flake, Miskatonic Mixture, Visions of Celephaïs, and From Beyond, are all direct references to settings or beings from Lovecraft’s mythos.reddit+2youtube
Thematic Elements
The blends aim to evoke the mood and imagery of Lovecraft’s stories rather than replicate any single style of tobacco. Each blend combines dark, mysterious, and exotic tobaccos to match the otherworldly theme. The presentation reinforces this with monochrome tin art in a vintage lithographic style featuring elements of Lovecraftian design—murky lettering and dim, dreamlike imagery.simplystogiesFlavor and Composition Patterns
While each blend has a distinct recipe, they share several motifs:- Use of unusual and varied Oriental tobaccos such as Katerini, Kasturi, or Izmir, lending the series a sense of ancient and foreign depth.youtubesimplystogies
- Frequent inclusion of Perique and Dark Burley to add spice and strength, paralleling the intensity of Lovecraft’s themes.youtube
- Interplay between Virginia leaf sweetness and darker, earthy or smoky elements (as in From Beyond and Awakened Elder) to create a flavor complexity reminiscent of light and shadow.tobaccoreviews+1youtube
- Occasional use of Latakia for its smoky, mysterious character (From Beyond, Awakened Elder), emphasizing “depths not of this world”.tobaccoreviewsyoutube
In Summary
Cornell & Diehl’s Old Ones series is thematically built around Lovecraftian horror, expressing it through both visual design and flavor profiles that favor complex, exotic Oriental tobaccos, powerful dark components, and layered mixtures that evoke age, mystery, and depth. It’s a series meant to be as evocative and unsettling as the mythos that inspired it.reddit+1youtube- Cornell and Diehl's Innismouth - Simply Stogies - A Cigar Podcast - https://simplystogies.com/cornell-and-diehls-innismouth/
- Cornell & Diehl - Visions of Celephaïs (The Old Ones) review :: Pipe Tobacco Reviews - https://pipesmagazine.com/forums/threads/cornell-diehl-visions-of-celepha%C3%AFs-the-old-ones-review.90148/
- updating via yoast - https://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend/11337/cornell-diehl-awakened-elder/?review=105844
- updating via yoast - https://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend/11339/cornell-diehl-dreams-of-kadath/?review=97115
- C&D The Old Ones Series :: Pipe Tobacco Discussion - https://pipesmagazine.com/forums/threads/c-d-the-old-ones-series.84833/
- https://www.cornellanddiehl.com
- C&D's the Old Ones Series :: Pipe Tobacco Discussion - https://pipesmagazine.com/forums/threads/c-ds-the-old-ones-series.89891/
- updating via yoast - https://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend/11336/cornell-diehl-miskatonic-mixture/?review=107180
- https://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend/11335/cornell-diehl-innsmouth/
- https://www.pipesandcigars.com/category/shop-by-brand/cornell-and-diehl/
- https://pipesmagazine.com/forums/threads/cornell-diehl-innsmouth-the-old-ones-reviews.90408/
- https://www.tobaccoreviews.com/blend/11337/cornell-diehl-awakened-elder/?review=118967
- https://thebriarpatchforum.com/thread/5670/cornell-diehl
- https://www.cornellanddiehl.com/story.cfm
BTW, cigarettes smokers accumulate Polonium-210 in the lungs over the smoking life. It is an alpha-particle emitter.Yessir, I'm no expert either but I believe they were essentially the same thing other than an extra special surprise inside
Finished a rather quick bowl of Half n half in my Grandads Peterson sports, now it’s cigar time as I smoke a Montecristo White series robusto, trying to work on my ash for my pipe mud.
This morning,Sir John's Flake Virginia in an Altinok.
Avo Fogata Toro while playing golf today. Shoot a smooth 74 today, quite pleased with that.
Oliva Serie V No 4 While playing golf today.
2020 MB Virginia No 1 in an Altinay.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, barramundi and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I was happy to learn that I gained less weight from yesterday's off diet day than expected. I've passed the quarter mark of this bowl of year 2001 Wessex Campaign Dark Flake in a smooth dark brown medium bend year 1924 Dunhill 136A double patent apple with a tapered black vulcanite stem. Community Coffee, neat, is my drink. The ferals ate and are outside. Molly Danger is laying on a catnip sock on the floor. Sleepy Suzy is by my side.
Thank you, sir.
21 years in the tin has turned Mac b dark twist into blackness. Smells like mead. LHS Sterncrest billard with sterling band and vulcanite stem.
Country Squire Yazoo Witch '25 in a Pete Halloween 302. Bale Breaker Fresh Hop IPA on the side.
Thanks NC its definitely the season for it and with fog and low cloud here Ichabod Crane could easily come charging out of this mist with his headless nemesis in pursuit.Love that pic, the black on️ on
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Perfect spooky-season smoke
Smoking some more 965. This is about 4 years old and the Pete iteration and age has helped this blend nicely and I would say another 2 or 3 will work wonders. Smoking it in a Pete 301.
Peter Stokkebyhe’s Proper English in a Lane Era Charatan Apple
HU Director’s Cut in a Radice
and Ginger Tea on the side.
and Ginger Tea on the side.
A little trip down memory lane tonight. I was going through some jars in my cellar and found a 4oz jelly jar labeled "Shelby Foote 2/20". My bastardized version of Mr. Foote's homemade blend was equal parts C&D Pegasus and Edward G. Robinson. The jar was full to the brim, so I reckon I stashed it away with plans to smoke it after a month or two... and here we are 5 years later.
I went to my closet and dug out the second briar I ever bought, a Savinelli Porto Cervo 673 KS. This was the first pipe I saw and bought on impulse, just from the looks of it. I didn't know anything about Savinelli, hardly anything about pipe smoking at all really. But I knew what I liked. A little over 6 years and around 40 pipe purchases and trades later, I still have that briar -- although I hardly smoke it any more -- and I thought it fitting to use it for the maiden voyage of "Shelby Foote 2/20".
I'm more than pleased with the results. Sweet, nutty, a little hint of Latakia, whisps of fruitiness. Much more smooth and mellow than I remember Pegasus or EGR being individually. I packed lightly and puffed greedily, but didn't suffer any tongue bite that usually comes from such an overeager pace.
I think I'll be smoking from this jar for the next few days, as a nice break from the Virginia/Kentucky blends I've been abusing lately. I have a few tins of EGR in the cellar, was sad to learn it's out of production from the Sutliff closure. I have no definite plans for it, but it's comforting to know it's there in case I want to put another batch of this stuff together.
I went to my closet and dug out the second briar I ever bought, a Savinelli Porto Cervo 673 KS. This was the first pipe I saw and bought on impulse, just from the looks of it. I didn't know anything about Savinelli, hardly anything about pipe smoking at all really. But I knew what I liked. A little over 6 years and around 40 pipe purchases and trades later, I still have that briar -- although I hardly smoke it any more -- and I thought it fitting to use it for the maiden voyage of "Shelby Foote 2/20".
I'm more than pleased with the results. Sweet, nutty, a little hint of Latakia, whisps of fruitiness. Much more smooth and mellow than I remember Pegasus or EGR being individually. I packed lightly and puffed greedily, but didn't suffer any tongue bite that usually comes from such an overeager pace.
I think I'll be smoking from this jar for the next few days, as a nice break from the Virginia/Kentucky blends I've been abusing lately. I have a few tins of EGR in the cellar, was sad to learn it's out of production from the Sutliff closure. I have no definite plans for it, but it's comforting to know it's there in case I want to put another batch of this stuff together.
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