What Are You Smoking Pages.

[lgoldberg]

Thanks for the well wishes, everyone. Here's a pic of our little muffin, Marcy Goldberg. I won't get to see her in 3d until tomorrow night.

Had a Pete at the hotel with the last dregs of Standard Mixture in it. I guess I need to spend money now.

 

[Eutychus]

I love the zone clock! It looks quite old, does it run?

Thanks! It’s a Telechron “Explorer” or “Globetrotter” clock dating from the late 1930s. It not only runs, it is very accurate.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking Hearth & Home AJ’s Vaper in a pre-1952 Sutliff Falcon 372 (made by Comoy’s) smooth light brown straight bulldog with a tapered black vulcanite stem.

 

[hilasmos]

Smoking GL Pease Haddo's Delight in my Bones Bent Brandy. This one has taken some time, but it is growing on me.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2014 Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a very much appreciated 1979 brown, slight bend grain etched flat front Stanwell Rego 969-48 (09) with a black vulcanite saddle stem. Reading baseball box scores.

 

[JimInks]

Passing the first third of this bowl of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a 1999 smooth brown medium bend Peterson Sherlock Holmes Series Baskerville with a sterling silver band and black vulcanite p-lip stem. It's time to check on the ferals. Daisy the Feral Princess is snoozin' on my studio chair. I may end the day with this smoke.

 

[Balisong]

Good Morning!
I forgot to post a couple of smokes yesterday, they were both GLP Westminster. It's a sunny morning and the chores are done. I'm starting with Westminster in a bent MM Apple Diplomat along with a k-cup of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee.

 

[WetPipeDreamer]

Another cool morning, have a small heater going on the porch. Having PA in a Wenhall Futura.

 

[Swede]

Nice and cool here too, so I'm having C&D Steamworks 2024 in a Peterson rusticated standard system with p-lip 309 with coffee. This blend is so easy going and just smoulders away with barely any relights. And, the taste is really nice and complex. I'm glad I bought extra this time.

 

[ralphmcculley]

The only Denmark versions that I have tried are Carter Hall and Prince Albert, and they were changed, too.

The importance of OTCs has greatly reduced because there are fewer pipe smokers than there used to be, and the number of places that used to carry them have shrunk to the lowest level possible. If people don't see pipe tobacco, they won't know that it exists.

Here's a list of what I remember about OTC prices from past days:

Drugstores and grocery stores the summer of 1974 when I started smoking: pouches of ERR was 25 cents, SWR was 25 cents, SWRA was 30 cents, Revelation was 30 cents, Madeira Gold was 24 cents, all Borkum Riff products were 30 cents, Mixture #79 was 40 cents, Rum and Maple was 35 cents, Middleton Apple and Cherry were 25 cents each, Amphora Red and Brown were 30 cents each, Carter Hall was 30 cents, Prince Albert was 25 cents, Skandinavik Regular and Aromatic were 35 cents a pack, Sail Green and Yellow were 32 cents a pouch, Granger was 22 cents, Flying Dutchman was 35 cents, Paladin was 28 cents, Sugar Barrel was 28 cents, Half & Half was 24 cents, Captain Black White was 35 cents. There were more than half a dozen aromatics made by Douwe Egberts at 35 cents each.

In 1975, I remember seeing a brand called Acapulco Gold. It was 35 cents, but I did not buy it. I saw it in a grocery store, and it wasn't sold there for long. I remember wondering about it, considering the name was used for an illegal substance. Does anybody else remember this tobacco?

1978: Middleton Cherry was 35 cents, Middleton Apple was 40 cents, Carter Hall was 35 cents, SWR was 35 cents, SWRA was 40 cents, 50 cents each for Skandinavik Regular and Aromatic, 60 cents for Amphora Brown and Amphora Red, Mixture #79 was 75 cents, Captain Black White was 70 cents. Borkum Riff products were 65 cents a pouch. I also noticed that the number of blends had decreased by this time at the stores.

1982 at my local Tinderbox for 50 gram tins: Three Nuns was $4, all Balkan Sobranie products were $4.50 each, Dunhill products were $4.00 each. MacBaren tins were $3.50.

1995 when I started smoking SWRA: $12 a tub. SWR was $9.95, Captain Black White was $18.95. Three Nuns in 50 gram tins was $5.00, $8.50 for 100 gram tins when you could find it. Balkan Sobranie White was $5.25 for 50 grams, $15.75 for 200 grams.

2001 in Switzerland: Three Nuns 50 gram tins was $6.45 each, Dunhill Navy Rolls was $7.50, Balkan Sobranie White was $6.50.

Wow Jim! That is a fantastic memory sir! I actually did not know that Captain Black was around in '74. My uncle smoked the original and the Royal. In the early to mid 1980s his little room off the side of the living room, I guess it would be called his study or den, smelled amazing. He always had big white and blue metal tubs of Captain Black on the table next to his chair. I used to live with my grandparents when my mom and Dad got divorced and my Mommoms father lived there too. He smoked Union Leader. I remember his and my uncles pipe smelling very different. What I do remember though Jim is when I'd walk to the corner drugstore with my great grandfather to get his weekly can of tobacco on Friday nights before my Dad would get me for the weekend is when he paid for the can and my treat he only gave the cashier like 4 or 5 bucks. The cans weren't as big as Uncle Kenny's tus of Captain Black, they were smaller. Anyway I'm rambling, but wow!! 1974 you started smoking a pipe?! That is the year I was born lol!

 

[Balisong]

I finished my first pipe and loaded an MM Missouri Pride with MB Pure Virginia to keep my company while watering.

 

[Gaius Marius]

Captain Black Copper in my mm cob.
My mother in-law's birthday was held at their camper in the woods. We were hit with a lightning storm during the celebration and a bolt struck that was so intense that I was blinded in my right eye for around half a minute. I've never witnessed a bolt like that before, the flash encompassed my entire vision in white. It wasn't close either, thunder came nine seconds after the flash.

IGoldberg, congratulations on a growing family!

 

[JimInks]

Almost a third of the way through this bowl of pre-2014 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. Just fed Sleepy Suzy and Molly Danger. Ice water and bergs is my drink.

 

[JimInks]

Just finishing smoking D&R Penhooker in a 1990 straight dark brown Commemorative reproduction of the 1890 Peterson Patent System 12393 stack billiard with a silver band and a bowed black acrylic 32 AB long stem p-lip.

 

[Balisong]

Finished mowing the backyard and cleaned some pipes. Taking a break with GLP Westminster in a bent MM Boone along with coffee. Next up trimming.

 

[ralphmcculley]

Captain Black Copper in my mm cob.
My mother in-law's birthday was held at their camper in the woods. We were hit with a lightning storm during the celebration and a bolt struck that was so intense that I was blinded in my right eye for around half a minute. I've never witnessed a bolt like that before, the flash encompassed my entire vision in white. It wasn't close either, thunder came nine seconds after the flash.

IGoldberg, congratulations on a growing family!

Oh how I miss that tobacco. Copper was the best out of all the Captain Black line up. That is the only Lane Limited tobacco I didn't stock up on when the doors closed at the Tucker GA plant. I'm really kicking myself for not buying a tub or two. I ended up buying 4 tubs of each tobacco except for Lane Limited Ready Rubbed, I bought a half case of that and a half case of Sir Walter Raleigh regular and aromatic, combined. I was told that Lane LL-7 was the bulk version of Copper but I don't see it. Copper was perfect.

 

[JimInks]

Earlier, I did a set of walking reps, fed all the ferals, and smoked a bowl of year 2016 D&R Three Sails in an undated straight brush etched black Molina apple with a nickel band and a tapered black vulcanite stem.

Just enjoyed a tasty lunch, and am a quarter of the way through this bowl of year 2020 Watch City Rouxgaroux in a smooth medium bend 2021 Peterson POTY Natural 4AB No. 6/500 military mount with a silver cap and a tapered black vulcanite AB stem. Gold Star Jamaica Blue Mountain, neat, is my drink. Delicious coffee.

 

[Eutychus]

Smoking Edgeworth Ready Rubbed Match in a Hardcastle’s Crown bent billiard with saddle stem

 

[Swede]

Revised Bluff Blend in an old beat up MM cob.

 

[JimInks]

Now smoking year 2016 Wessex Gold Brick in an undated straight black sandblasted Kevin Arthur brandy with a multi-colored accent on the white acrylic saddle stem. This pipe was originally owned by Sante “FishnBanjo” Guiliani.