First Pipe

Puff nstuff · Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:37 pm

I was out in the barn the other day, rummaging through stuff that was packed away haphazardly over 20 years ago, when I needed to get what remained of my personal things out of my parents' house and bring them to mine. One of the things I was able to uncover was the very first pipe that I bought more than 30 years ago. I had remembered it to be a Barling billiard, but it turned out to be a Dublin/zulu shape - a Barling Londoner 4805. I just gave it a quick cleaning, and she appears ready for action once again. Welcome back, old friend.

Anyone else still remember or own their very first pipe?

Citizen B · Tue Aug 17, 2021 4:28 pm

I still have mine. It's pretty much unsmokeable after taking me through the learning curve over the course of about five years as my main pipe.

I am not nostalgic about it but it does make me smile when I see it. "Ah, yes! My first love," I say out loud.

You never forget your first pipe.

mrpipster · Tue Aug 17, 2021 4:51 pm

Nope. Mine got lost in a moving.

rekamepip · Tue Aug 17, 2021 4:55 pm

Puff nstuff wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:37 pm I was out in the barn the other day, rummaging through stuff that was packed away haphazardly over 20 years ago, when I needed to get what remained of my personal things out of my parents' house and bring them to mine. One of the things I was able to uncover was the very first pipe that I bought more than 30 years ago. I had remembered it to be a Barling billiard, but it turned out to be a Dublin/zulu shape - a Barling Londoner 4805. I just gave it a quick cleaning, and she appears ready for action once again. Welcome back, old friend.

Anyone else still remember or own their very first pipe?

Very Nice !

Puff nstuff · Tue Aug 17, 2021 5:29 pm

rekamepip wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 4:55 pm
Puff nstuff wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 2:37 pm I was out in the barn the other day, rummaging through stuff that was packed away haphazardly over 20 years ago, when I needed to get what remained of my personal things out of my parents' house and bring them to mine. One of the things I was able to uncover was the very first pipe that I bought more than 30 years ago. I had remembered it to be a Barling billiard, but it turned out to be a Dublin/zulu shape - a Barling Londoner 4805. I just gave it a quick cleaning, and she appears ready for action once again. Welcome back, old friend.

Anyone else still remember or own their very first pipe?
Very Nice !

Thank you! Obviously my lighting technique was not up to snuff way back when, as the rim shows a bit of char. I look forward to figuring out what sort of tobacco will work well with it. I mostly smoke filtered pipes now, and this one isn't filtered.

Big Iron · Tue Aug 17, 2021 5:58 pm

Thats awesome talk about a reunion of old companions. It must be meant to be

Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:16 pm

I think its great you found it !! Its rare for someone to have their first pipe if its been decades . Im lucky to have mine from 79 . I always cracks me up because I dont have my 2nd through 30th pipe , or whatever , but I have my first

Enjoy it !!

simplepipes · Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:30 pm

I regularly smoke a set of matched Falcons w / Genoa bowls that a pipe smoking uncle gave me for high school graduation . . . 49 years past.

-sp

Ronv69 · Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:35 pm

Mine is pack in a box somewhere. Has been for the last 30+ years. It's a Peterson System Standard that l picked up at the Shannon Airport in 84. The search for it started me on this journey 8 years and 200+ pipes ago. I still have hope of finding it before I die.

Puff nstuff · Tue Aug 17, 2021 7:28 pm

Ruffinogold wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 6:16 pm I think its great you found it !! Its rare for someone to have their first pipe if its been decades . Im lucky to have mine from 79 . I always cracks me up because I dont have my 2nd through 30th pipe , or whatever , but I have my first

Enjoy it !!

I like having this in common with you, Ruff!