Mr. Doody
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My mother's father used to smoke a pipe all the time. He passed in 1976 when I was about 10 years old. I remember following him around the house and yard when he was doing chores, and he always had a pipe in his mouth. Long after he passed, I asked my grandmother if she still had his old pipes, and whether I could have them. At the time, I did not smoke a pipe, but I was smoking cigars, and none of the rest of us grandkids did any sort of smoking. Up until her passing, both of us assumed the pipes got lost or tossed when she moved out of her house into an apartment as she entered her 80s. My grandmother passed about two years ago and when we were cleaning up her estate we found nothing re: my grandfather's pipes.
However, I have begun cleaning out my house of 15 years to get it ready for sale. Yesterday I was cleaning out remote corners, and, lo and behold, inside a tightly-closed paper bag that was inside a large, clear ziploc bag, I found these:
These pipes haven't been touched for nearly 40 years. I doubt there's anything of value in here, as my grandfather was a man of modest means, but they have an incredible sentimental value to me, especially as I too am now a pipe smoker. As best I've been able to gather, he smoked Captain Black white from when he was in the Navy in WWII until he died. He didn't collect pipes like us doofuses - he just smoked 'em for the pleasure of it.
There's a Peterson silver-band p-tip that I will clean-up and smoke, but the others I'll likely just clean up and save (the meer has been patched, the Grabow has a metal tube, etc.). I was SO giddy to find these!! At some point my grandmother probably dropped the bag by my house while watching the kids or something; leaving the bag on the dining table or kitchen counter; and my (now ex) wife just put them in a dining room cabinet to remain cloistered for a dozen - or maybe more - years.
WooHoo!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy,
Doody!
However, I have begun cleaning out my house of 15 years to get it ready for sale. Yesterday I was cleaning out remote corners, and, lo and behold, inside a tightly-closed paper bag that was inside a large, clear ziploc bag, I found these:
These pipes haven't been touched for nearly 40 years. I doubt there's anything of value in here, as my grandfather was a man of modest means, but they have an incredible sentimental value to me, especially as I too am now a pipe smoker. As best I've been able to gather, he smoked Captain Black white from when he was in the Navy in WWII until he died. He didn't collect pipes like us doofuses - he just smoked 'em for the pleasure of it.
There's a Peterson silver-band p-tip that I will clean-up and smoke, but the others I'll likely just clean up and save (the meer has been patched, the Grabow has a metal tube, etc.). I was SO giddy to find these!! At some point my grandmother probably dropped the bag by my house while watching the kids or something; leaving the bag on the dining table or kitchen counter; and my (now ex) wife just put them in a dining room cabinet to remain cloistered for a dozen - or maybe more - years.
WooHoo!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy,
Doody!