What is in your pipe? October 2019

After a healthy nap, it's time for some Esoterica Margate, in the craggy old Charatan's Make Freehand Relief. This pipe is so ugly, it's beautiful. Cool water. True crime on the tube.

Now smoking Wilke #44 in a smooth medium bend post-WW2 Pre-Republic Peterson Shamrock Killarney 9BC with a sterling silver band and a black vulcanite p-lip stem.

About a quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2016 Anniversary Kake in a smooth 1979 Chippendale (Charatan second) Rhodesian 49 with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

Enjoyed a very short snooze, and am now smoking C&D Burley Ribbon Cut in a 1970s slight bend black sandblasted Comoy's Silver Cloud 624 sitter with a silver pearl gray acrylic saddle stem. This will get me to dinner time. Watching the Rays-Astros game.

C&D Billy Budd Blonde in a Peterson Killarney bulldog with a vulcanite p-lip stem.

I've been tempted to pull a jar of Billy Budd Blonde out of the cellar, but that means I have to figure out which tote it's in. That's no easy task.

If my son ever goes to bed, I have a bowl of 5100 in one of Jason's Eggs (hahaha).

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, steak and snap green peas dinner, and am almost half way through this bowl of Dan Tobacco Salty Dogs in a brown rusticated slight bend 1982 Savinelli Non Pareil Estella 99 Acorn with a pearl brown lucite ferrule and military stem. Astros lead the Rays 4-1 in the 6th.

Before, the rest of the J4 Burley from last night. Now, Erinmore in the little pot.

Watch City Quint’s Own in a Thomas Cristiano Canadian with an acrylic band and stem.

Uhle’s Perfection Plug Burley in a 2017 Don Warren freehand sitter with a plateau rim and butterscotch acrylic stem.

Good morning from Greece, cloudy weather here in Athens with 74 °F



J.F. Germain & Son Royal Jersey Perique.

Almost half way through this bowl of Edward G. Robinson's Pipe Blend in a 2014 Basil Meadows smooth slight bend squashed tomato with an aluminum band and a black pearl acrylic stem in the military mount style.

Enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am now smoking Sutliff Dunhill Elizabethan Match in my trusty 1970s smooth three quarter bend Peterson System Standard 305 with a black vulcanite p-lip stem. Watching Mad Dog Russo.

Now smoking Pebble Castle in a 1970s slight bend smooth Danish Sovereign XXX 309 with a flat front sitter with a black vulcanite stem.

Afternoon, fellows. Enjoying a bowl of Arango Balkan Supreme in the XX Ashton Oldchurch squashed tomato with a brindle stem. Sipping cool water.

Now smoking year 2003 McClelland No. 2015 in a small slight bend black sandblast 2000 D.R. Ardor Urano Ninfea Fatta A Mano author with a silver spigot military bit and a tapered black acrylic stem. Enjoying a rare visit from my old college buddy who lives in Iowa.

Uhle's 00 in a Squashed Tomato.

Close to finishing this bowl of Sutliff Prince Albert Match in a 1980s straight smooth Big Ben pot with a nickel band and a black vulcanite saddle stem. Tobacco burns faster outside than inside.

A couple of minutes away from smoking early 1970s MacBaren Burley London Blend in a smooth medium bend 2011 Rinaldo Collection Fiammata Silver Line 7 Odea 04 flame grain bulldog with a silver band and a tortoise shell acrylic saddle stem.

Hello, GH Kendal Dark in a MM Diplomat.

Now smoking Watch City Old Dominion in a 1978 smooth full bend Lorenzo Adria Standard 733 flame grain egg with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

Close to finishing this bowl of 2012 Virginia Spice in a 2004 smooth long shank Canadian Trever Talbot Ligne Bretagne Faite en Bretagne 4/3 with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

Relaxing after a wonderful salad, salmon and green beans dinner with a bowl of McClelland Christmas Cheer 2014 in a 1980 Stanwell 668 medium bend with a multi-colored ferrule, half black sandblasted, half brown smooth, rough top with a black vulcanite stem. Watching the Nats-Cards game with Sleepy Suzy by my side. Molly is batting catnip balls around the den. She's hit my foot twice, the li'l devil!

WC Slices in the little pot. Enjoying this bowl much more than previous bowls. I think I might follow it up with another.

Now smoking Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth straight Lane era Charatan Executive Extra Large stretch apple with diagonal channel cuts on the lower right and left of the bowl along with a black vulcanite double comfort stem. This pipe was formerly owned by actor William Conrad.