@hoosierpipeguy Waste not want not; I can agree with you! When I went to the Cavendish's Horses event at Bolsover Castle I found enough pipe baccy that the re-enactor playing William Cavendish had tipped out of his antique silver tobacco pipe to fill my small English Civil War clay pipe - so I got to try his Virginia tobacco after all!CVP in an Altinay. I had some scraps of Vauen No 14 left that I finished filling up the bowl with. Waste not want not. LOL
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@Duck I've smoked a few packets of Clan in my clay pipes; need to get some more Clan when I practice for the clay pipe smoking competition as I'm told they use Clan Original...Clan in a Wellbent.View attachment 97371
It should be said that the hole and the slot in the button ran side by side almost from the beginning of briar pipe production and it's not the case that the slot only came into being quite late from circa 1910.A 2nd bowl of the afternoon. Dunhill Deluxe Navy Rolls in
A 1913 straight billiard with replacement vulcanite stem (with correct orific bit) by Mike Billington of Blakemar Pipes
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Smoke it slowly, very slowly, because if you don't it will punish you.@Duck I've smoked a few packets of Clan in my clay pipes; need to get some more Clan when I practice for the clay pipe smoking competition as I'm told they use Clan Original...
Just that orific (round hole) bits were phased out sometime in the 1920s, so we can date pipes with orific bits to the pre-'30sIt should be said that the hole and the slot in the button ran side by side almost from the beginning of briar pipe production and it's not the case that the slot only came into being quite late from circa 1910.