What Pipe or Pipe Tobacco Did You Smoke Today? [pics]
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CobGuy
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2000 McClelland Xmas Cheer ... my "holiday" blend this year:
GreenDragon
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Curiosity blend in my Savinelli prince. Blend has 6 months of aging on it. Easy smoke, no relights, no bite. Just honest tobacco flavor.
Sid.Stavros
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Bentley Virginia Honey Dew.
Hellenic, not Greek.
I'll agree with a distinction between Hellenistic and Hellenic. But Greek and Hellenic are the same thing in different languages.
I recognize that people who currently live in the "Balkanized" lands that have traded hands among Macedonians and Greeks and Romans and Byzantines and Huns and Bulgars and Seljuks and Genoans and Ottomans and Russians and...(I'll truncate the list) are sensitive about their perceived heritage.
I'm currently smoking a huge bowl of Twice as Bright in my antique shop, salvaged Dobey pot.
Bob
Sid.Stavros
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Bjarne tobacco the Gentle One.
deluxestogie : Greece as a word and meaning is older than Hellas, Greek is the Older than you in that land and Hellenic is the Native on that land.
A Greek from Megara of Attica with the name Byzas (aka Byzantas) established at 667 BC a small village and named it as Byzantion, his emblem was this:
an ancient Greek symbol later copied by the turks. When he arrived of course he didn't find living there any ''ancient'' italians or bulgarians but fellow countrymen from his own ''State'' and of course they were speaking Greek language among them.
Greeks were in the today's Minor Asia etc thousand years before the ottomans which were different tribes with ONLY one thing common, the anti-Christianism. The first ''chaliphate'' was established at 1280 AD so there are NO ''ancient turks'' no matter what fairytales they say to their schools.
That village (the Byzantio) and the surrounding villages later became a peninsula called Byzantio. No matter if Constantine was not Greek, the people between them on that part of empire were speaking Greek, the proper term is ''Byzantines Greeks'' which speaking the same language with the Greeks of Athens-Sparta-Macedonia-Crete etc.
Those people the Persians called them Yunan from the Greek tribe of Iones (Yuna) which living there and as usual the turks copy this and call us Yunans. Among those who try like maniacs to separate the people of Byzantio from people of Greece are fanatic Christians which still at year 2019 can not accept that there was a civilization much older and higher level from their own at tents in the desert and destroying temples-statues can not erase a thousand years old history.
GreenDragon
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First smoke with my new Rhodesian. Blend is Nestled Pebble.
HighDesertHippie
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Seems like nothing for me tonight but a bunch of Nyquil and some cough drops, guess it's my turn to catch the bug
Sid.Stavros
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Hello from Greece, we have sun with few clouds here in Athens and 43 'F so the Cafe owner took some measures for the customers.
Above is the ''set-up'' photo and below the ''on action''.
DTM Vanilla Honeydew.
Above is the ''set-up'' photo and below the ''on action''.
DTM Vanilla Honeydew.
It's good to see a pipe with actual ash. (You clean and polish your pipes so fastidiously that they always look like unused pipes in a store display.)
Bob
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ChinaVoodoo
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This was what happened while you slept, Sid.Hello from Greece, we have sun with few clouds here in Athens and 43 'F so the Cafe owner took some measures for the customers.
Above is the ''set-up'' photo and below the ''on action''.
DTM Vanilla Honeydew.
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Royal Dutch pipes seem to have vanished from the market.
Bob
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CobGuy
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If I remember correctly, Pipes and Cigars (online retailer) bought a huge lot of these and sold them under the name Hilson Vintage.
Hilson was another brand under the Gubbels House: https://pipedia.org/wiki/Gubbels
~Darin
Yeah. Pipesandcigars does some odd, big batch things. Just a few years ago, most of their Stanwell pipes were under $50, and I was able to purchase a brushed red Canadian (one of my nicest smoking pipes) for $19.95. Now the cheapest Stanwell briar pipes are over $83.
Bob
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Smoking pipes had it as unsmoked Estate Misc. Perfect condition as far as I can tell. BTW. Smokes great.
Sid.Stavros
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'Dayyy from Greece, bad weather here in Athens with 32 'F, i am smoking J.M. Boswell Boswell's Best, double Greek coffee beside me.
Yes sir, unfortunately the Winter finally knocked our door.
Yes sir, unfortunately the Winter finally knocked our door.
HighDesertHippie
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Looks like it might be warm enough during the day this week to dig around a bit and do a few soil tests. Starting to be able to breathe again so I am taking it sort of slow,
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