Stalin had a taste for Edgeworth, so during the war the U.S. State Dept. included some in every diplomatic pouch sent to Moscow. The diplomats called it the "tobacco pouch". 
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No no, image is from our Australian War memorial in Canberra but I have clear recollections of my father talking about what they smoked. He did the North Africa campaign and then some of Europe and came home. He was getting ready to go back into New Guinea but the war came to conclusion and so he discharged and raised livestock. I still look at his diaries and wonder how the hell he did it, some days are just heartbreaking to read. The men of that era are right up there with the toughest we’ve ever produced, humbled to be a son from one of them.
This picture shows that not all that enjoy the tobacco pipe are good natured bon vivants!Stalin had a taste for Edgeworth, so during the war the U.S. State Dept. included some in every diplomatic pouch sent to Moscow. The diplomats called it the "tobacco pouch".
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Many well regarded pipe smoking scientists were horrible people in their personal lives and narcotic addicts. Pipe smokers are just people and generalizing is never a good idea.
Beside Stalin, can anyone name a real monster who smoked a pipe? I can think of quite a few pipe puffing jackasses I've known (present company excepted), but no "big time" bad guys.
William Dudley Pelley, leader of the largest Nazi group in the US, know as the Silver Shirts. He was class A piece of sub human garbage. He aspired to be the American Führer.Beside Stalin, can anyone name a real monster who smoked a pipe? I can think of quite a few pipe puffing jackasses I've known (present company excepted), but no "big time" bad guys.
Good one! I didn't think of him. Your post reminded me of another scub bag.
Norman Lincoln Rockwell
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And GöringBeside Stalin, can anyone name a real monster who smoked a pipe? I can think of quite a few pipe puffing jackasses I've known (present company excepted), but no "big time" bad guys.
That is George Lincoln Rockwell and is NOT Norman Rockwell the artist.
Stalin and Pellen’s pipes look like my Kaywoodie pears…
The black market continued to thrive during the Vietnam war. American smokes were gold, shampoo, bath soaps, laundry soap, etc.. were better then cash.
That pipe looks... cumbersome.
Isn’t that a tyrolian style pipe? After WW1, pipes were likely not often found in combat I guess.
I don't know. Seeing these old timers saying blends like Barking Dog, and Revolution, which I've had the "Match" version, makes me wish it was all still available. Love those blends but didn't know the history behind it.
Adolf Galland was a fighter pilot, in his book he says one day his bowl was taken off by a stray bullet. Imagine that!