Dr. Grabow Pipes

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... as there is no Tennessee Pipe Club of Boston. Nor is there a Tennessee Pipe Club of Tennesse

Dr. Bridges Blend in a bent bull...

GrabowGuy · Posted: Fri Sep 12, 2008 11:20 pm Post subject:

I know that Holmes liked a dark, shag, stoved, VA.
Supposedly according to McClelland, he kept it
in a sock hung on a nail in his mantlepeice.
Must have been a dry, strong smoke!
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Sir Duke · Guest

A fellow member of the Sherlock Holmes Pipe Club, Dock Perry, named a tobacco blend Persian Slipper ala' this this tid bit GG brough to light....

I forget the blender thoug and too lazy to go to tobaccorevies.com

pipesbywhitney · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 5:50 am Post subject:

I recently, after about 40 years, picked up some Prince Albert again and fell in love with it. Since I write a column on estate pipes for The Pipe Collector - North American Society of Pipe Collectors - I am working on a future article on Dr. Grabow and the Prince. For background I picked four Dr. Grabows - a Linkman/Dr. Grabow from 1937, a '57 Savoy saddlebit billiard, a circa '65 Starfire shell-finished quarter-bent, and a more recent Alpha Kappa - that I found in some old pipes I had set aside for possible refurbishing. I, of course, refinished all four and have been smoking them with PA for over a month and thoroughly enjoying the combination just as I once did back in the 1960s. Thanks to you guys and the new Dr. Grabow web pages I have a lot of material to work from so maybe can generate an interesting article. By the way, the Starfire has turned out to be my favorite of the bunch but maybe it has something to do with my preference for thick-bowled quarter-bents. Glad to have signed into your forum. Thanks for all your info ... Dave Whitney

Terry292 · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 6:49 pm Post subject:

Welcome aboard, Dave. I try never to miss your column in The Pipe Collector; I like to think I'm more of a pipe smoker than a collector, and your column is more in keeping with my attitude towards pipe-smoking.
Terry
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drbridges · Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject:

Yes, welcome to the forum, Dave. I'm looking forward to reading your article.

I think everyone here in the forum has at some time or another found simple pleasure with over the counter blends in over the counter pipes.

I hope you continue to visit and post here.

ted · "Old Timer" Joined: 23 Jun 2008 Posts: 1171 Location: NC'

Dave...Never read your articles. Hope I get the chance. I know a bit about two decades of Grabow , and one decade of Mastercraft. Questions always get my feeble brain to work. If I can help, just ask......Welcome.....I live in Crystal River...for now..ted

ozark southpaw · Posted: Sat Feb 28, 2009 2:29 am Post subject:

Dave, I have enjoyed your articles in the Pipe Collector! My suscription was gifted to me by a gent who bought one of my tampers-and I need to renew!! It surprised me(pleasantly!)to see articles about the cheaper grades of pipes! I was expecting it would be all Dunhill ETC. Thanks!! Ed.

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