Lets See Pics Of Your First Pipe And Do You Still Have It?

[Anonymous]

I selected the very finest....
Medico on the card at the drug store.

It might have been a #2 bowl -- bit undersize. Apple shape. Redish brown.
Got a pouch of Edgworth for it. Seemed the nicest, color wise.

Now to make it work.
Well, cigarettes seemed firm so I crammed it full and pushed down hard.

For some reason it bit my tongue.

Several years later I tried again with some 3-Star Blue.
Same packing technique.
Same results.

Friend opened a pipe shop
Got religion, some nice pipes, and packing instructions.
Smoked the Medico a few times and didn't care for it.
Drug store wouldn't take it back. 10 or so years?

It probably is in a box in the shed. Not going to bother to look for it.

 

[RDPipes]

Like an earlier fellow stated, my first pipe wasn't just one. I had purchased about 24 or more pipes at an estate sale. Sadly most of them were sold years ago but, I did manage to keep a handful. Here's one of those, an Alpha Lazano Heather Briar. Not a great pipe but, it was a good smoker for what I smoked in it at the time. I haven't smoked it since, too many choices nowadays.

 

[PozzSka]

I think I had a Dr. Grabow at 19 or 20 years old, smoked it for a while, gave it away I think, then didn't smoke much until the past few months (I'm 29 now)...so that one is long gone. After picking it back up, I sent another Grabow onto a newbie whose pipe suffered a deadly fall. So I no longer have either of my "first pipes."

 

[Fr_Tom]

I still own and can find 4 or 5 of the pipes I had when I was in college (late 70's). I even have a picture or two of me with a pipe in my mouth back then. I still smoke these early ones, but perhaps I did not bond aqdequately with my first. It would have been a basket pipe of some description, and as I continued smoking, I tended to prefer larger pipes/bowls. I probably gave the first one to somone who admired it and wanted one like it. I have also "lost" a couple of really good pipes. I try to be philosophical. If some other smoker got some (guilty) pleasure out of my pipe, I don't bear much of a grudge. It gave me an excuse to buy another.

Then there are the mysteries I would like to resolve. I had a rusticated Amphora bent bulldog that I loved, and it just disappeared. If that one came home, I would be happy to see it again. I have thought about just finding another on ebay. I had a Canadian that was a great smoker, and I put it someplace "safe" when the stem broke. I claim this one will turn up some day, but I fear it was in a box we thought was empty after a move...

 

[pepesdad1]

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My first pipe was a Comoy Golden Grain Canadian bought in 1961 from Kirt's Pipe Shop in Coral Gables, Florida, while attending the University of Miami.

Still with me and still my best smoker.

Boy was that a while ago.