This is my current clay pipe, I smoke it pretty regularly. Great flavor, cool enough and fun to boot. Just starting to get some nice color into it as well.
The pipe celebrates, as far as I can figure, the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons - a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1689. It saw service for three centuries, with a final amalgamation in 1922. Most soldiers in the dragoons saw service in places like India and Egypt.
Looks good clay pipes are so good to smoke.
ReplyDeleteAndrea some produce some one's we can smoke i'm sure.
And Chuck if she does we will send you one.
Cool! I'll be honored and I'll smoke the dickens out of it!
DeleteSeeing this clay answers a question I've long had regarding the coloring of clays and references to "old black clay...oily black clay" pipes. I have a pipe with the same bowl. I bought it years ago at a rondyvoo here in Indiana, U.S.of A. The only two difference are that the tip on my pipe has a green glaze to keep lips from sticking to dry clay and your pipe has more color than mine. I don't smoke mine often. I always thought it was a quality pipe but I can't even pass a pipe cleaner through the stem of mine and I don't want to have to burn off the gunk if the stem clogs. Slim pickins at rondys these days. Clay pipes made who knows where. Did get to buy a sample of GH&Co's Black Cherry twist. Good? Oh yeah!!
ReplyDelete"Oily black clay"...are you referring to Watson's opinion of Sherlock's clay? :)
ReplyDeleteI've only ever cleaned the draught hole once. To do so I passed a fine section of wire through the shank with some cotton thread attached. To the end of the cotton thread I attached some thick twine. I pulled this through the shank and everything was whistle-clean. The idea came from watching (in a documentary) Papua New Guinean natives making a rope-bridge by passing successively larger vines over a chasm.
How much is that pipe
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