***What Are You Smoking, Sept. 2022?***
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Well, that Bengal's game was....something. Trying to unwind with some C&D Opening Night, rubbed out, in my faceted sandblasted J Alan billiard. Hope everyone had a great weekend.
Jason
Jason
Lane’s HGL in a Dunhill 1/4 Bent Dunhill Quaint
Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake.
Perfect night for a pipe. Cool & breezy. Fall in the air.
Perfect night for a pipe. Cool & breezy. Fall in the air.
Piping Rooster Thunder Bay blend in my Ragaire 221 chased with that smoooove stuff!
Greenodd Rope in an early 1900’s Footed Meer with Amber Stem
Bayou Morning in a Walther Squashed Tomato
New to me Stephen Liskey Squat Tomato. Maiden voyage with KBV 1928 Preserve
Mac Baren, 2020 Latakia rolls, limited edition. Pipe is my Peterson 304 System.
Relaxing after a wonderful salad, chicken legs and sugar snap peas dinner with strawberries for dessert. I've about a third of a bowl left of year 2016 Stonehaven in a 2002 medium bend smooth brown Rinaldo EGEA 03 Silver line spigot 10 with a black acrylic saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.
This one tempted me. Nice grab!
Esoterica Margate in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard
Thank you kindly. Also thanks for not running the bid up . . .hahaha
About a third of a bowl left of Wilke Lizzie Blood Virginia in a straight black with burgundy undertone sandblasted early 1960s Lane era Charatan 420 billiard with a tapered black vulcanite stem.
Going to have a blend I've dubbed “Modern Major-General”—a 1:1 mix of Esoterica Penzance and Lane 1-Q that @Chasing Embers mentioned in another thread—curiosity got the better of me and I had to try it! I thought it only fitting to have it in a Figural Meerschaum Skull pipe (probably from the late 19th Century or early 20th Century) that Duane would appreciate.
This pipe came in an Au Pacha leather case. The address is 7 Rue Mont Blanc, Geneva. It’s most likely this was sold through a chain of tobacconists that had shops in France and Switzerland and not made by the Paris company that bore the same name. There is stamping on the band that bears the letters “EP” in a diamond (electroplating). It also has three letters that might be V, C, F or U, C, F. @Ahi Ka has suggested the VCF might be “Vincent-Coutier & Fils.” Any help or ID with the hallmark would be much appreciated.
The original amber stem is broken and includes a fairly nicely fitted fill using a soft compound; the threads in the stem and mortise appear to be stripped, but, the shank of the pipe doesn't appear to have any breaks in it, so I’m not entirely sure the band is a repair one as @Ahi Ka and @OzPiper have suggested. I’ve successfully fitted an acrylic amber-like stem with a Delrin push tenon that fits reasonably well and will make the pipe smokeable. I considered commissioning a Ryan Alden stem a la @ashdigger, but am loath to entrust the pipe to the USPS for fitting. I met a pipemaker at the Lehigh Valley Pipe Club the other week in Pennsylvania—I might see if I can enlist him to fashion one that will fit in the case. I also recently bought a tenon cutting tool and might try making a stem myself that will actually fit in the case, but, I’ll need to practice a bit first. The amber-like acrylic one will suffice for now.
Below is a picture of this pipe with my other Meerschaum Figural Skull by Colossus Pipe Factory—a Savinelli 320 KS is shown in the middle for scale. The CPF pipe is quite diminutive.
Wasabi is sleeping on my pillow and exuding cuteness:
This pipe came in an Au Pacha leather case. The address is 7 Rue Mont Blanc, Geneva. It’s most likely this was sold through a chain of tobacconists that had shops in France and Switzerland and not made by the Paris company that bore the same name. There is stamping on the band that bears the letters “EP” in a diamond (electroplating). It also has three letters that might be V, C, F or U, C, F. @Ahi Ka has suggested the VCF might be “Vincent-Coutier & Fils.” Any help or ID with the hallmark would be much appreciated.
The original amber stem is broken and includes a fairly nicely fitted fill using a soft compound; the threads in the stem and mortise appear to be stripped, but, the shank of the pipe doesn't appear to have any breaks in it, so I’m not entirely sure the band is a repair one as @Ahi Ka and @OzPiper have suggested. I’ve successfully fitted an acrylic amber-like stem with a Delrin push tenon that fits reasonably well and will make the pipe smokeable. I considered commissioning a Ryan Alden stem a la @ashdigger, but am loath to entrust the pipe to the USPS for fitting. I met a pipemaker at the Lehigh Valley Pipe Club the other week in Pennsylvania—I might see if I can enlist him to fashion one that will fit in the case. I also recently bought a tenon cutting tool and might try making a stem myself that will actually fit in the case, but, I’ll need to practice a bit first. The amber-like acrylic one will suffice for now.
Below is a picture of this pipe with my other Meerschaum Figural Skull by Colossus Pipe Factory—a Savinelli 320 KS is shown in the middle for scale. The CPF pipe is quite diminutive.
Wasabi is sleeping on my pillow and exuding cuteness:
Tried my last sample of the set I received from @TheIronMonkey this evening, Drucquer & Sons Loch Ness in my Savinelli Bacco 321 bent author. Thank you, my friend! A lovely smoke on a lovely, cloudy evening, before the rain comes...again. This September rain is a godsend--it will certainly keep the arsonists from...err...plying their trade?
No birds this late, other than a couple ravens, and some scrub jays burning the midnight oil. Wifey even came out with me to enjoy a cigarillo, and brought some white wine for the both of us. Bliss.
This was our view this evening:
So what did you think of the tobacco?
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