Category: Collectibles
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Unbreakable Ashtray
There are cheap ones, old ones, elegant ones, expensive ones, works of art, as much as true examples of bad taste, but most ashtrays are easily breakable. My new ashtray acquisition is made out of bronze.
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Intimidating and Inviting
Have just come to realise that this pipe has been inviting me for months, while it intimidates me.
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Still Life with a GBD
Suddenly I am happily caught in the life of collecting – pipes, ashtrays, cigars and other aspects of fine-smoking. Here is one of my Ganneval Bondier Donninger Pipes, better known as GBD. This one is stamped “Century”, “London, England”, “1625”.
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Opinion and Criticism I
If we nose these perfectly shaped sticks of rolled leaves before we light them; if we toast their feet before we let them burn; if we carefully mind the fire to start an even burn and attentively observe how the ash develops; if many of us – at times with competitive spirit – try to…