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Wilsons of Sharrow Moor

April 29, 2022 by Chuck Stanion

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In an idyllic valley in Sheffield, England, the Sharrow Moor mill has been operating for more than 440 years, tucked away among trees, lawns, and Porter Brook's curving waterway. For those of us who comprehend time intervals by comparison with our oldest surviving socks, that's an impressive span. ... Read More

Pipe Smoking Desktop Backgrounds: May 2022

April 27, 2022 by Andrew Wike

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It's time for another round of beautiful pipe smoking desktop backgrounds! As in previous months, we've compiled some of our favorite shots and artwork to share with you. Below you'll find ten unique images, split between desktop and mobile orientations and available for download in two high-resolution formats. They're ready for you to use however you'd like. Feel free to download and set them as your desktop or phone background, or print them out and hang 'em on your wall. ... Read More

Favorite Places to Smoke a Pipe

April 21, 2022 by Davin Hylton

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Any long-time pipe smoker will inevitably provide the same advice to novices entering the hobby: "Find the pipe that best suits you." Finding the "right" pipe, of course, takes time and patience, not to mention an exact understanding of what one wishes to extract from their smoking instrument. It's a well-known pleasure (and pain) of the hobby, and like anything, preferences and tastes are unique to the individual ... Read More

Mark Irwin: Doctor of Pipes and Peterson Researcher Extraordinaire

April 15, 2022 by Chuck Stanion

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Our pipe-smoking hobby is filled with impressive individuals. We have tobacco blenders and people involved in the tobacco side of the industry. We have independent artisan pipe makers and other artisan makers who contribute to the production of larger workshops; we have accessories makers who make everything from custom artisanal tampers to pipe furniture to leather ... Read More

Pipe Smoking Desktop Backgrounds: April 2022

March 30, 2022 by Andrew Wike

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It's time for another round of beautiful pipe smoking desktop backgrounds! As in previous months, we've compiled some of our favorite shots and artwork to share with you. Below you'll find seven unique images, split between desktop and mobile orientations and available for download in two high-resolution formats. They're ready for you to use however you'd like. Feel free to download and set them as your desktop or phone background, or print them out and hang 'em on your wall. ... Read More

Introducing: The Charles Peterson Collection

March 23, 2022 by Chuck Stanion

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Peterson of Dublin is doing some particularly innovative work, improving and refining their sandblasting, their finishing processes and design. A large part of their ability to do that is thanks to the founder of the company, Charles Peterson, who designed the world-famous Peterson System Pipe and whose legacy of innovation ... Read More

James Thurber: Celebrated Humorist and Sometimes Pipe Smoker

March 11, 2022 by Chuck Stanion

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Widely considered the foremost humorist of the 20th century, James Thurber (1894-1961) often portrayed bemused protagonists clumsily navigating the complexity of modern life through incomprehension, fantasy, and defeated acceptance. Thurber's writings and drawings encapsulate those odd but universal feelings of being out of phase with the rest of humanity, and his ... Read More

Pipe Smoking Desktop Backgrounds: March 2022

March 1, 2022 by Andrew Wike

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It's time for another round of beautiful pipe smoking desktop backgrounds! As in previous months, we've compiled some of our favorite shots and artwork to share with you. Below you'll find nine unique images, split between desktop and mobile orientations and available for download in two high-resolution ... Read More

Rich Esserman: Big Pipe Guy

February 25, 2022 by Chuck Stanion

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The Pipe Smoker's Ephemeris was a journal of vast pipe experiences submitted for publication by collectors and pipe enthusiasts around the globe. Tom Dunn founded The Universal Coterie of Pipe Smokers in 1964 as a means of exchanging information about pipes across the entire world. Most of his issues in the first decades were hand-cranked on a mimeograph machine, and Tom typed the contents on his manual typewriter. ... Read More

Top Seven Meerschaum Motifs

February 23, 2022 by Angela Robertson

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One of the world's oldest pipe-making mediums, meerschaum is prized for its flavor-neutral smoking properties, heat resistance, and ability to darken with warm tones of patina as it's smoked over time. Moreover, the mineral's malleable composition allows it to be carved into ornate figural motifs that depict animals, people, flowers, and skulls, for example, as well as more traditional pipe shapes. ... Read More

Wilsons of Sharrow Moor

Pipe Smoking Desktop Backgrounds: May 2022

Favorite Places to Smoke a Pipe

Mark Irwin: Doctor of Pipes and Peterson Researcher Extraordinaire

Pipe Smoking Desktop Backgrounds: April 2022

Introducing: The Charles Peterson Collection

James Thurber: Celebrated Humorist and Sometimes Pipe Smoker

Pipe Smoking Desktop Backgrounds: March 2022

Rich Esserman: Big Pipe Guy

Top Seven Meerschaum Motifs

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