OK, I'm still not done, you guys have driven me further over the edge than just those above, the dribs and drabs still to come in, damn this Xmas mail again, so many empty handed trips home from the Post Office gives rise to severe road rage ....
Oh this pipe is above, but this is an el supremo photo of it, cut by Søren Refbjerg Rasmussen this stately poker sits upright quite handsomely. Known for his pipes labeled Søren, which he started marketing in 1969 in styles similar to those of Preben Holm, this Danbark is a brand less well known in the United States. I think I may choose to be buried with this 'un ....
Then I had to get a few of these just in case after only one go I figured the "cob nuts & lovers" were all mad, I thought it only prudent to give this type a fair trial in different forms lmao ...
"Stolen" 9ct gold band Meerschaum:
"Stolen" more gold for the girl:
Don't ask why, I have no idea, they're not in the least bit "girlie" so will all be sold, or given away, new or near new Dr G's:
Then I took a bit of a fetish for Bakelite, something I've always disliked intensely in the past, shrugs (I totally blame the rattus baggus who sent me in search of a Baccyflap, that gave rise to this madness):
A wee bit of France, every girl should have some -
this is for the Churchwardens - damn I'm having so much trouble trying to get even normal small pipes to fit into pipe racks, if they're not falling out, they're too long, too short, too wide - surely I don't have to take the bloody stem off every time I want to secure a pipe in a pipe rack, do I????:
And last but not least (as at the close of business today at any rate) is my exquisite Alabaster Pipe Rest coming from UK via boat 'coz the postage would've destroyed me: