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I have just purchased three beautiful Astley pipes from Karen and Mordecai Ezrati who now own the name Astleys and bought all the remaining inventory along with the rights to use the Astley name back in the early 2000's. Apparently there has been some controversy over the past several years...

So I know many of us pipe smokers are Sherlock Holmes buffs but I am also somewhat of a Basil Rathbone buff. He made many interesting movies in addition to the Holmes series. Therefore I have always lusted after a Peterson shape 4AB which is the one he smoked in all of the Universal productions...

I just managed to obtain some tins of Edgeworth Sliced that was manufactured in England and imported by Lane Limited. Does anyone know when this tobacco was imported and when Lane quit importing it. I understand that the original Edgeworth was made by Larus Brothers in the U.S. but I am not...

Hello Brothers: O.K. here was the question on the table at the last pipe club meeting, The term "Balkan" is often used these days to denote a particular type of mixture, usually Virginias, Turkish and Latakia combinations of various percentages. One of the older members brought up the fact that...

Hello brothers:Have any of you who watch YouTube pipe videos, as I do, noticed the videos out of Taiwan by Michael Reyfeldt. He is always very amusing and it is fun to see videos coming from that part of the world. He seems to have disappeared from the YouTube channel about a year or two ago and...

Hello Brothers: I've been impressed with the quality I have been seeing online of the Design Berlin pipes, especially the blond honey finish but I am wondering about the smoking quality of the pipe if one skips the 9 mm filter. I have never liked filtered pipes so I am wondering if any of you...

Hello fellow pipers: Like many collectors of classic shape pipes I have a preconceived bias in favor of collecting and smoking pipes from the British Isles and Ireland. Now, I know having collected these things for over 45 years that yes, there may be some truth to the rumors one hears about...

Hi folks: I just picked up a great old Dunhill Shell briar. It looks like a very early LB shape but does not say "LB" on the shank. It is about a group 5 or 6 but has a number 7 stamped into the shank right beneath the bowl. Then in the usual flat spot where the nomenclature is normally placed...

The really odd thing about this auction is the nature of the shapes. Why would a pipe smoker accumulate that many patent number billiards and not smoke them? Also, I have my favorite shapes too, that's where my username comes from but a bit of variety would be nice in a collection of this size...

O.K. I admit that I am completely confused as to the presence or lack thereof of perique in one of my favorite old time Virginias, Old Gowrie. I smoke pounds of this back in the days when it was still made in Perth and it was simply a straightforward broken Virginia flake with a wonderful sweet...

O.K. Brethren here's a question that has been driving me crazy for years and hopefully one of you historian types can provide an answer. I have been a fanatical viewer of the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies for decades and have also become quite familiar with Peterson pipes from my years...

O.K. guys and gals: After singing the praises of Capstan Blue and its return to the market I was talked into trying the yellow tin as well and found it quite pleasant if a little bit too light. Then one of the brothers mentioned in a text that if you were to mix the two would you get "Capstan...

Has anyone tried any of the new Comoy pipe tobaccos? I assume like most tinned tobaccos these days they are produced somewhere in northern Europe either in Germany or Denmark?

I tried a pipeful of this the other day so I can tell my customers what it is all about. If you look at my previous comments in this section you know I am a fairly faithful devotee of Virginia Flakes, specifically Capstan blue so I may not be the best judge of Crooner which apparently is similar...

Riff Raff requested to see the Sasieni that I was smoking the Capstan in. I am an old timer who can barely use electricity effectively but I will get a photo up as soon as my part time employee comes in to work in the next few days. He is my high tech guy. Thanks to all who responded to my...

Several of you asked exactly where I am located. I live on Bainbridge Island, WA but spend the vast majority of my hours at my retail shop in Poulsbo which is about 30 miles west of Seattle.

If you want to treat yourself to a hailarious send up of the Dunhill mystique, check out the youtube videos from , I believe, 2010 annual dinner of the Seattle Pipe Club where Mr. Clive Dunhill delivers a very entertaining lecture concerning his family and his place in their pecking order as the...

Never thought I would be able to smoke this great tobacco again. It was my "go to" for many years in the 1970's and 1980's but when it disappeared from the U.S. market in the 1990's I was relegated to Gawith's FVF and Golden Glow. When Macbarens reintroduced it last year I had serious doubts as...

I am a long time pipeman from the Pacific Northwest and am a fancier of Virginia Flake and classic British briars. Thank you for allowing me to join the band.