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

[cshubhra]

Gawith Hoggarth and Company Dark Birds Eye in an Altinay translucent meerschaum billiard

 

[RobNYC]

@RobNYC Yes thanks; my first visit to the Battle of Nantwich.

Been to see Redcoats & Revolutionaries yesterday; I was wearing my Redcoat uniform & smoking GH Brown Pigtail Twist in a clay pipe lit from the blacksmith's forge. Jason the blacksmith says the twist smelled like 18th century taverns...

Nice!

 

[OzPiper]

The 3rd and last of the trio of Operas is another 1913 - An army mount Barling with orific bit

With a 3rd VaPer blend - Sam Gawith’s St. James Flake. Rubbbed out and gravity filled

 

[Backwoods Briar]

that's such a nice stanwell.. those early pieces are great.

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smoking some granger in a dog meer

There are, I’m always looking for one, once in a while they show up.

 

[Backwoods Briar]

Some Wilke 193 in a made in Texas Canadian, while reading Louis L’Amour. Cup of Tea, heading out to the workshop were it’s peaceful

 

[hoosierpipeguy]

Kurt Eisner in a Ruthenberg.

 

[mingc]

C&D Star of the East in a 1961 Dunhil Bruyere LBS

 

[Steddy]

Some Wilke 193 in a made in Texas Canadian, while reading Louis L’Amour. Cup of Tea, heading out to the workshop were it’s peaceful View attachment 250288

Louis L’Amour should be required reading for young men!

 

[Tate]

Louis L’Amour should be required reading for young men!

I have to Google that!

 

[brisco83]

Peter Stokkebye Luxury Bullseye Flake in a Zulu Dunhill

 

[Tate]

Any specific Louis L’Amour titles in mind?

 

[The Clay King]

A few sips of ice cold water then onto the 2nd of the trio of Operas - a 1913 Birmingham hallmarked army mount BBB with orific bit

Bowl of Peterson’s Elizabethan Mixture

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@OzPiper I smoked a clay bowl of Elizabethan Mixture at Nottingham Pipe Show last year in memory of the late Queen Elizabeth II. I remember seeing the Royal Train passing through Derby station as a small child; the Queen waved to people on the platforms as she was closing the curtains. A Royal memory.
Last time there was a King Charles people wore wide brimmed hats and smoked clay pipes. I'm helping to keep the tradition going; they should make a comeback!

 

[The Clay King]

Nice!

@RobNYC Jason the blacksmith in between lighting my clay pipe:

7.8K views · 86 reactions | Forging a bodkin arrowhead. Jason Green (@wielandforge) demonstrates how to make a simple bodkin arrow-head live at Derbyshire Woodland Festival at Elvaston Castle, September 2023. Jason makes all sorts of historical rep

Forging a bodkin arrowhead. Jason Green (@wielandforge) demonstrates how to make a simple bodkin arrow-head live at Derbyshire Woodland Festival at Elvaston Castle, September 2023. Jason makes all...

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[JimInks]

Hi Jim- I roll cigarettes with Three Sails (with a little added Turkish) and always have a few one pound bags on hand. What's it like in a pipe?

Citrus and grass. Age makes it better as it usually does for bright Virginias.

 

[Cloozoe]

Pre-dawn Haddo's

 

[JimInks]

The October thread is active. See you folks there!

 

[Birddog66]

The C.P.F. brand produced pipes until about 1920 or 1921.

The opinion on them varies, KB&B brought them out in the late 1890’s and the general consensus seems that they were putting the KB&B logo on them after that, mine doesn’t have that logo. I know KB&B took out a patent on the name in 1919 and it think that’s when it was absorbed by them so the name couldn’t be used by other makers. It’s one of those things where there’s a lot of opinion but little evidence unfortunately.

 

[Singlebevel]

LTF with a PoP (Pinch of Perique) in a Moretti *edited to add an ‘oopsie’ for posting in September thread

 

[Ben.R.C]

Lately I wake up and sneeze and blow my nose for a half hour. Must be allergic to being awake! cure is large bowl of ODF in a J Alan

 

[Ben.R.C]

One day I will post in the correct month the day it rolls over, that day is not today.