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Picked up a pipe rack and 3 pipes from an antique shop today.
One was a Kaywoodie, my first. It is a nice looking bulldog and from what I can tell was made in the late 40s or early 50s.
One was a Shalom, an Israeli pipe, which I found unique and is why I bought it.
The other is a Saville. I think that's the name. It's a pretty cool shape.
They all need some TLC, but were only $8 apiece so I think it will be worth it.
Got a Rattray's Caledonia billiard at Payless Pipe's Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale:
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Well have a pretty unhappy wife, got dinged hard with duty but had a nice order of pipe tobacco show up today. First time dinged on pipe tobacco but the price you pay to save massively buying abroad.
Bulk:
Lane 1-q
Sutliff frosty mint, holiday mixture, christmas spice, 507c virginia slice
PS luxury navy flake, luxury twist flake
Newminster 400 superior navy flake
Tins
Sutliff maple street, great outdoors
C&D jolly old saint nicholas
And a couple packs of pipe cleaners for my churchwardenhttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...105b3bcef6.jpg
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Picked this up at a flea market today.
Nothing special, just a Peterson Kildare shape 65.
It wasn't a screaming deal, but at $30 I think it was a fair price. It's been smoked but not that much.
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Got an email from SmokingPipes so I picked up some...
G&H Dark Plug
G&H Ennerdale (for a change of pace once in a while... I'll probably hate it)
Solani Green Label (another change of pace.. I'll probably hate it)
...and some pipe cleaners to bump it up to free shipping
I'm hoping the Ennerdale will air out and lose the floral flavoring. I've read a couple reviews that claim it does. One can hope.
I love apple flavored things, just have never found an apple flavor pipe tobacco that's anything less than horrible so I'm prepared to be disappointed by the Green Label. Same goes for cherry flavored things / cherry tobacco: cherry = good, cherry tobacco = bad. Well, G&H does offer a Cherry Cream Flake that isn't too bad but it's certainly not a go-to.
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I’m not a fan of aromatics, but awhile back I bought 5 Solani aromatic ready-rubs to try. Of the three that I’ve tried so far Green Label is the least bad. :(
I also have some Solani Tropical Mango Flake in a jar. It’s far too intensely aromatic for me to enjoy straight, but a 20/80 mixture of TMF and a staid tobacco, such as Dunhill Flake, is quite interesting. Which reminds me — I haven’t smoked such a mixture in awhile...
It seems like my favorite blends have been hard to find these days.
I got a notification from smokingpipes that one of my faves, Rattray's Hal o the Wynd was in stock. This was Tuesday or Wednesday. I thought, "Cool. I get paid Friday, I'll pick up a pound."
Less than 24 hours later they were sold out. Dammit.
Well, a friend from my local B&M texted me this morning and told me about a company called Top Hat Tobacco out of St. Louis. They had it in stock and he had picked up a couple pounds.
I went on and ordered it today.
I've never ordered a pound of bulk at a time before, and this is actually 17.5 oz, so basically a pound plus a tin.
I'm pretty stoked. I only have one unopened 3.5 oz tin left, so I was getting scary low.
I should be good for a while.
Picked up this rack, a white Dr. grabow and a Volterra (Italy) for $30 at a flea,market. I have no earthly idea if that is a decent price? I haven't looked into the volterra at all, never heard of of it before. Someone tell me I spent to much if I did so I know for next time. They seem like pretty decent shape.
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I think you did okay. The rack is handy, the Grabow will be a good smoker (most of them are).
I've never heard of the other one either, but it looks good and the stems are in good shape.
If it smokes good, which I'm sure it will, I think you'll get your money's worth out of them.
My youngest had a hockey tournament so I got up near the city this weekend. Hit the local pipe shop and picked up a few tins that look well aged! I like collecting them and I am pretty sure the price tag was from when they were new and didn't reflect all the tax laws that happened since they have been on the shelf. I don't know if grabbing super aged looking tin is good or bad but thought it was worth a shot.
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