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    Tobacco in Germany

    In Berlin, my favorite pipe shop is Der Pfeifenladen, very friendly and you can get lots of information about the pipe and tobacco scene in this little Europe. You can find Germains there sometimes, but the 10+ tins will be gone within a few days. The nearby shop, Tabak & Pulver focuses more on...
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    McClelland: "We're Just Going to Close the Doors"

    I can see it coming, but not as early as this decade. I just can say thank you and a sad farewell to my beloved American tobacco manufacturer. To remember your blends, I may have to add some Heinz ketchup to my Virgina tobacco.
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    Dunhill Cumberland Conundrum – No COM/Date Stamp

    Or they went drinking tea and didn't cum back on that. Or during their tea discussion, it was decided that a date stamp was not necessary on this particular cumberland. Timeless.
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    A Latakia Love Story, What`s Yours?

    My first English blend was Butera Pelican. It took me a journey to go from "people smoke this kind of hideous stuff?!" to "English blends are divine and classic".
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    Insanely Cool, and 100% Real

    The space mathematicians and engineers in the 21st century are doing such perfect jobs to defy Murphy's law. It looks like every single aspects go smoothly as depicted. I left the questioners of the official stories, also be strategically called out as the "sceptics" by the governments and their...
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    Insanely Cool, and 100% Real

    Not before I saw this "100% Real" description did I intend to take a closer look at the possibility of any aspect of that is actually not real. Taking out my Calabash pipe. :puffpipe:
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    What Lighter to Get?

    I can't find too many pipe lighters that are of similar form factor to that "Panama Jack" lighter you referred to. I can think of Xikar's pipe lighter, e.g. Xikar Resource pipe lighter and Resource II pipe lighter to be of similar form factor and at around the price range. I don't know if they...
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    Pipe Shape and Flavor

    Cherry flavor aromatics is best consumed in cherry wood pipes, or pipes in cherry wood shape: And caramel aromatics in corn cobs: hmm... popcorns...
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    Any Stanwell Experts Here That Can Help With Nomenclature?

    Not that I am a Stanwell expert, but I like the Denmark period Stanwell as a solid-quality factory brand, which also helped the training and development of mid-late 20th century generations of Danish / Northern European pipe makers. I particularly like the Danish Stanwell in their earlier...
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    Click Link, Enlarge (magnifying glass symbol), Flip Pages... Smile

    It's a real nice old catalogue, thanks for sharing the link.
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    Updates

    I wish everything goes well for you health-wise in 2018. Please keep us posted about your collector pursuit - this Drip Wax collection.
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    Dunhill Pipe Tobacco 1912-2017

    Pipe smokers can make a protest by making a small bonfire out of burning Dunhill tobaccos outside their Alfred Dunhill trademark headquarter. I will definitely join.
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    Dunhill's (Probably) Last Luxurious Tobacco Pipe Project

    When I first noticed a whole shelf is built for a pipe, I wondered what is that about. Not a single bit from a utility perspective of a pipe smoker, I realized, but instead completely an altar for this Eiffel Tower structure and its history. Am I an structural architect / engineer? No. Am I an...
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    Dunhill's (Probably) Last Luxurious Tobacco Pipe Project

    Perhaps it's still available. Even its certificate is stored in a 445gram hand-crafted sterling silver capsule. If I own articles of this level of beauty and craftsmanship, when I have even the slightest sign of becoming chronically sick due to older age, I would have it immediately donate to...
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    Dunhill's (Probably) Last Luxurious Tobacco Pipe Project

    It's definitely a display item. Perhaps for someone who can relate to the build or its architecture, and who like pipe smoking and tobacco; the intersect of these two sets make the target group so small that they become China's new millionaires who like shopping and eating in Paris. I have also...
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    Dunhill's (Probably) Last Luxurious Tobacco Pipe Project

    When some of us have to take shelter from our Dunhill Tobacco bunker, it might well implies there will also be no more Dunhill pipes in the future. Let's take a look at this supposedly last luxurious tobacco pipe project of the modern Alfred Dunhill group...
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    New pipe. Breaking it in questions.

    Perhaps you can just try to enjoy in it one of your favorite tobaccos that burn relatively well, especially for the first few bowls. Just paying attention to be gentle to avoid overheating or burnout should be enough.
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    Anne Julie- Only 10,200.00

    Perhaps if we use a macro lens to look at that rose-golf-ball bowl, each hole is perhaps the location of a single bird-eye grain. Just saying. Anne Julie definitely has some interesting work as a modern female pipe maker, that her male counterparts dared not to do; because if the females talk...
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    Big Changes Coming, Maybe

    All the best for the health challenges. My advice would be get some scheduled workout every day - exercise is perhaps the best ever medicine of the 45 minutes to an hour exercise can be replaced by a tablet of medicine or supplement at all. A more drastic change can also be cutting all the...
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    What Do You Do with All Your Empty Tins?

    I am not a collector, but in the new world that emphasizes "newer, bigger, better", everyone seems to think like so. One thing for sure is a "collector" should have enough time and space, and energy plus ability to organize the collection, otherwise, he is mostly just a hoarder. Not related, but...