Your First Pipe

[jagsdriver]

Ah yes, that memorable occasion, you buy your first pipe. I was 18 at the time ( over 55 years ago) . The pipe..a prized five dollar Medico. It was a prized specimen of a pipe. Gorgeous piece of filler with specs of briar in it. I still have the old relic.

 

[Sgetz]

Mind was a falcon bantam. Long since gone!

 

[mpjetset]

A Comoy no-name flat-bottom appley-kinda sitter, which is still in my main rotation after many, many years.

 

[BingBong]

Falcon, c.1972, long since lost in the mists of time.

 

[jerry]

A cheap little oom paul basket pipe purchased in 1969.

 

[seabee1999]

I got my first pipe when I was deployed to Kuwait in 2003. A friend purchased it for me for my birthday along with a pouch of Capt Black White. Sadly, I tossed that pipe. At the time I loved cigars and I didn’t know how to care for a pipe. It gurgled too much for me and wasn’t pleasant.

 

[judcole]

A genuine EllifIno. Long gone.

 

[TakeThisCobAndStuffIt]

Genuine Missouri Meerschaum on the wall at the sweetshop/pharmacy; bent stem, because a proper pipe has a bend! I was like 13 and copying the "grown ups". I told Mrs Shanelbrook at the counter that my dad asked me to get it for him.

 

[AroEnglish]

Mine was a MM legend. It's about 14 years old and still gets loved.

 

[Pipeoff]

Started 65 years ago and was lucky to have a local pipe maker. Came from the House of Fischer Orchard Park, NY. When quality pipes were low in price. Shape was a comfortable Lovat with in house mild blend. Glad I never heard about Pad and Tad.

 

[AJL67]

If you know, you know.

 

[Non-Mentholated Black Man]

If you know, you know.

It just isn't as pleasurable without the Cherry-Almond Chapstick.

 

[spike]

A Tom Thumb from Sears Roebuck on the northwest side of Chicago in 1970. Looked like a hash pipe.

 

[wilblee]

The first pipe I bought and smoked tobacco in was a clay tavern pipe from Colonial Williamsburg. This has to be ‘72-‘73 - back when age restrictions on tobacco use were either non-existent or not strictly enforced.

 

[AJL67]

The first pipe I bought and smoked tobacco in was a clay tavern pipe from Colonial Williamsburg. This has to be ‘72-‘73 - back when age restrictions on tobacco use were either non-existent or not strictly enforced.

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We went there in the early 80s for a class field trip, from florida up the coast to DC, stopping at all the historic spots on the way, back when they wanted kids to know about the history of our country and i remember the tobacconist there .. although we didn't buy anything. lol

 

[jpmcwjr]

Ah yes, that memorable occasion, you buy your first pipe. I was 18 at the time ( over 55 years ago) . The pipe..a prized five dollar Medico. It was a prized specimen of a pipe. Gorgeous piece of filler with specs of briar in it. I still have the old relic.


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Oh, my, you nailed it! Here's my first pipe:



It looks better in the photo than real life. Not photoshop, just backlighting.

 

[verporchting]

Edward’s Bent Rhodesian circa 1986-87. Paid $50 or so. Still smokes great and started off my pipe smoking journey with a quality piece of Algerian briar.

 

[bullet08]

Peterson SH Squire fishtail. There were other pipes, but they weren't Peterson, so they don't count.

 

[kcghost]

I picked up a $5 dollar Dr. Grabow. Long since got rid of it somehow.

 

[RookieGuy80]

MM bent Legend, which was lost in the Chesapeake Bay during a fight with a rockfish (or "striped bass", for those without an opinion on Old Nay vs JO). But at the same time I got a nice little HIS from the basket.