Happy New Year!
It’s late, and a little too cold to smoke a proper stick right now (it’s around 28⁰ F outside)—but to get this year’s thread going, once again, I’m going to have an Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur Miniature as a quick smoke to start off 2026.
To compensate for the less than ideal tobacco, I thought I’d share this recent, very rare score: a Savinelli Meerschaum Toscano holder with an amber stem with orific bit and bone tenon. What’s really cool is the case’s label lists both the Milano and Genova Savinelli locations; most of the cases for pipes or cigarette holders I’ve come across have had one location or the other, but not both. This could be a late 19th Century or early 20th Century piece (no way to really know—I’ve seen a brochure that lists both locations, so based on that example, this could be from the latter).
It’s late, and a little too cold to smoke a proper stick right now (it’s around 28⁰ F outside)—but to get this year’s thread going, once again, I’m going to have an Hoyo de Monterrey Excalibur Miniature as a quick smoke to start off 2026.
To compensate for the less than ideal tobacco, I thought I’d share this recent, very rare score: a Savinelli Meerschaum Toscano holder with an amber stem with orific bit and bone tenon. What’s really cool is the case’s label lists both the Milano and Genova Savinelli locations; most of the cases for pipes or cigarette holders I’ve come across have had one location or the other, but not both. This could be a late 19th Century or early 20th Century piece (no way to really know—I’ve seen a brochure that lists both locations, so based on that example, this could be from the latter).
