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I have a search set up on ebay for Esoterica Penzance. For at least the second time in a few weeks one of the hits was for seller 4noggins4u. I just checked the 4 noggins web site and Penzance has been totally removed from their listings. The current listing...

I just received a couple NOS bowls that I picked up on ebay. The seller has been slowly liquidating the inventory of a store that was started in the late 19th century and went out of business in 1976. I think she indicated that these or at least some others that looked just like them were...

For the past few years I've been staying at a certain Holiday Inn near where I work most of the time. When I took up pipe smoking about a year ago I started getting a smoking room. Nothing like relaxing in my room with a bowl of week, reading the paper, online forums, email etc. or catching...

I recently received a sealed can of Plumcake that I got off ebay. I paid about going rate for new so even if it isn't very old I'm not out anything. The original buyer didn't mark the date on the bottom of the can so I'm wondering if there's a way to discern from the codes when this was made...

This isn't specifically about tobacco but in looking at all the possible places to post this I selected The Tobacco Jar as the closest category. If you've read my profile or introductory post you'll know that I was introduced to participating in pipe smoking due to my participation in living...

In my current quest to locate a meer lined pipe I've come across the Hilson name. I've read a bit that I could find on the web about them but it's just history etc. Some of these pipes look like they are made of lucite or some other man-made material. Curiously today's email from P&C.com...

A couple weeks ago my middle daughter was cleaning out her brother-in-law's (known here as Crusader Pipes) old storage trailer and came across a few small zip-lock bags of tobacco samples. After supper that evening we went out to enjoy the evening air and each selected one to try. Tim thinks...

Coming home today I loaded up my favorite meerschaum at a rest stop and hit the road for the rest of the drive home. I had an awful time keeping it lit and finally gave up figuring I'd finish when I got home and could put full attention and 2 hands to the task. At home I realized that somehow...

Sometimes I have loaded up my pipe, clenched it, and then gotten involved in something without putting the match to it. If I do this for a few minutes I have found that this can bring enjoyment of the tobacco in its own right. PSLBF is one that comes to remembrance of maybe the first time I...

While I was waiting for my first shipment of SG tobaccos and being generally ignorant I stopped a few B&M places, mostly Smoker's Friend type places, and bought some OTC type stuff. My wife wanted me to smoke organic tobaccos so one of these was a packet of the American Spirit red pouch. I...

Check out this listing for a Peterson 364 bowl. http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=120878458618&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:1123 Scroll down below the specifics of the listing to the first line of the colored font boilerplate information this seller apparently uses for every...

It all started so innocently. In early October I was participating in a War Between the States (WBtS) military encampment and had recently finished stripping the kernels off the ears of corn I had dried to make a period food, parched corn. Looking at the bare cobs I decided to pass the time in...