Boston Red Sox Baseball, New England Patriots Football, Boston Celtics Basketball, Boston Bruins Hockey, Collecting Smoking Pipes/Tobacciana, Cellaring Pipe Tobacco, Pipe & Tobacco Books/Catalogs, Reading Sherlock Holmes & Other Victorian Mysteries, Vintage Radios, Lighters, Taxidermy Animals, Flea Markets/Tag Sales, Reading, Steinbach Nutcrackers and X-Mas Tree Decorations, Running My Online Pipes Forum "Brothers of Briar", Roller Blading, Long Boarding, Classic Cars, Men's Classic Wet Shaving(D.E. Blades,High End Shaving Brushes and Straight Razors)Good Bourbon(ie Bookers,Bushmills Wild Turkey "Rare Breed")Photography... (BELOW)Your's Truly Digging Through A Big Box of Pipes, A Gorgeous 1976 Rolls Royce "Siver Shadow", MacBren's Navy Flake Pipe Tobacco & Classic Wet Shaving Accessories, A Highly Collectible Dunhill "Early Morning Pipe" Store Jar, An Orlik Tobacco Advertising Statue, A Classic KLH Model 21 Radio From 1969, Two Pics of My Smoking Lounge and a Pic of My Tobacco Cellar...
Music
Jazz:
John Coltrane, Billy Holiday, Mel Torme, Frank Sinatra, Leon Redbone, Susannah McCorkle, Almost Any Lounge Music...
Rock:
Grateful Dead, David Gray, Jack Johnson, Coldplay, The Band, Toad The Wet Sprocket, Dropkick Murphys, Sublime, Dr.Dre, Lily Allen...
(BELOW)A Pic of Boston's Punk Band "The Dropkick Murphys", A Video of Singer Carol Vegas Performing Maroon Five's "Sunday Morning", John Coltrane's "Blue Train", The Late Jazz Vocalist Susannah McCorkle...
PBS, Monarch of The Glen, Nearly All British Sitcoms Like Keeping up Appearances And Waiting For God, The Granada Television Version of Sherlock Holmes, Forensic Files, Super Nanny(seriously), Wife Swap, Boston Red Sox Baseball, Dennis the Menace,(The 1960's Series) Aqua Teen Hunger Force...
(BELOW) A Scene From Keeping Up Appearances."The Rolls Royce" & Also A Picture of The Cast From The BBC Series "Monarch of The Glen" , The Cast of The BBC Series "As Time Goes By" & "The Aqua Teens"....
Books
Sherlock Holmes,Victorian Murder Mysteries,Jack The Ripper,Patricia Cornwell, The Highland Novels of Compton Macenzie, Smoking Pipes Related/Tobacco Related, Men's Grooming & Shaving Related, Pipes And Tobacco Magazine, NASPC Newsletter,The Pipe Smoker's Ephemeris, Baseball Related...
Heroes
(BELOW)Pipemaker Kurt Balleby, Actor Steve McQueen, A Video Tribute To Jeremy Brett & Nascar Driver Tony Stewart:
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About me: I'm from Western Massachusetts and work in the automobile industry.I have a Mom,Dad & Girlfriend who are all very important to me.Many of my intrests are in the antiques and collectibles fields though I'm also a die hard Boston Red Sox fan,A die hard Tony Stewart fan(Nascar) and an avid pipe smoker.I belong to the Sherlock Holmes Pipe Club of Boston: http://www.shpcboston.org and am also the Administrator for an online Pipes & Tobacco Forum & chat called "Brothers of Briar" http://www.brothersofbriar.com/
(BELOW)"The Union Jack", Brothers of Briar Pipes Forum Logo, The SHPC's Logo, The Original Cast of Ocean's Eleven, A Smoking Pipe By Werner Mummert Called "The Gold Fish" & A Video Clip of The 2007 World Series Set To "Dirty Water"...
Who I'd like to meet: Sherlock Holmes (AKA Jeremy Brett),Cary Grant,Steve McQueen,Ted Williams,Alfred Dunhill,Dozens of American & Danish Pipe Carvers,Jerry Garcia,Jack the Ripper and a slew of other serial killers... (BELOW)Alfred Dunhill, Sean Connery as James Bond, Jeremy Brett As Holmes, Jerry Garcia, A Great Pic of "The Kid" in 1939 , A Movie Still From "North By Northwest" Staring Cary Grant & Jack the Ripper...
Thanks for the kind words Johnny. I really am proud of my collection and it's nice to find that there's other who have a passion for tobacciana. As for where it was purchased,I've always been a flea market and tag sale guy. Quite a few items have been found on the cheap from such venues. Also of course there's E-Bay which has become like the holy chapel of odd things. You can find almost anything you want there over the course of a year or two. Then about three months ago I purchased a good amount of items from the estate of a friend who was forced to substantially down size. From him I bought many jars, advetising items and books/catalogs. The easiest way to answer your question is that I'M ALWAYS BUYING this kind of stuff. My afvice to someone who wants to start collecting is to start hitting flea markets,tag sales and junk shops. The owner of these items usually has NO idea what they're worth! I've bought at least a dozen Dunhill pipes at $5.00 ea this way...Ya gotta just go out looking! The stuff's out there!
Hell ya man, cleaned and smoked every one of them, besides that GBD without the stem. And you'l be glad to know i got all the stuff home in one peace including the hanging cabinet my god i looked like a fool on the highway but it was worth it thank again for all that Dock, hopefully ill see you at Gutz cookout.
