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    What makes you feel old?

    - fact, that many pipe tobaccos (Dunhill, St. Bruno, plenty of others) are not what they used to be, say, 50 or even 40 years ago :(
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    What makes you feel young?

    Return to playing classical guitar. Sor, Sagreras, Cano, Tarrega...
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    Loringpage.com is temporarily unavailable

    Loringpage.com is available again. Many thanks to these, who "put them to life".
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    Loringpage.com is temporarily unavailable

    Dear All: The famous, containing most important informations on Dunhill pipes loringpage.com is temporarily unavailable. http://www.loringpage.com/ I wonder if any of us know more about it. As far as I know, after John Loring passed away, His Family decided to keep His pages and they were...
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    It's birthday time again for sand18f!!

    Happy Birthday, Bill. As always Jacek
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    Can anyone tell me about this Dunhill stamp?

    Similary marked with star pipe is here. It has also two digits denoting the year of make (1966/67). http://forum.pipes.org/messages/23/74415.html?1213398550 Maybe my eyes are not as good as before, but I did not manage to find anything in John Loring's writings, includig His book "The Dunhill...
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    Happy Birthday Schacht! (Thilo)

    - happy birthday, Thilo as always Jacek
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    Oil Soaked Briar

    Maybe the text of the Dunhill Oil Curing Patent will be of any help: http://www.folloder.com/pdf/1341418.pdf
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    MERRY CHRISTMAS

    Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of us - Jacek in Poland
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    Best Room Note

    I do not know, how it is today, but ca. 60 or 50 years ago many ladies in my family friend's circles simply loved smell of blends with Latakia. They were coming from circles of former small landowners running their farming and small wood industry. The smell of Latakia reminded to these ladies...
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    BUTZ CHOQUIN

    If my eyes/sight do not cheat me, the wording is: CHOQUIN METZ. Keeping this in mind I believe that this pipe was manufactured by Choquin in the town of Metz where the company/brand was founded. It was later that the brand/firma moved to St Claude. According to what we read at site of Butz...
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    Anyone have an opinion of SG: Golden Glow?

    To begin with: SG Golden Glow is, as far as I know, the trade name of the SG Medium Virginia Flake (MVF) offered in 50 gram tins, while the MVF is offered in bulk. I find the description by Daniel Schneider at his company - Synjeco pages accurate: Golden Glow...
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    languages

    In my - foreign - perspective: English is great because of it's logical simplicity. I feel that it somehow derives from Latin. Understanding spoken English is another matter; many foreigners understand the best so called "International English" that we, no-native speakers use. Considering...
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    Growing tobacco

    http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/aa260 http://www.coffinails.com/forums/ and here are seeds that I received from my Friend (Thank you so much, Bill). They will be seed in 2012. http://www.newhopeseed.com/yellow_orinoco_tobacco.html
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    Hello from Vojvodina

    Hi, Tomas, welcome to the forum, it is so nice and friendly place. It is so interesting for me to read on your home grown tobacco. I would be delighted to hear on your curing/fermentation method. Let me share here my own modest experience in this matter with hope, that Administration will not...
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    Greetings from germany

    Welcome, Holger !
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    Kiseru? anyone heard of it or own one?

    http://www.loringpage.com/oriental/kiseruforsale.html
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    Avatar Story

    I use for avatar the picture/photo of one of my small sculptures/objects of art in silver from seria "Romantica" that I created some 25 years ago.
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    My oldest pipe . . .

    Oh yes, very much so. My 1912 CIVIC, 1914 Masta and 1918 BBB are perfect smokers indeed.
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    Loss of Dear Friend

    So sorry. This is not to be expressed by words. He will be in my prayers.
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