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s little traction in getting a pipe in the hopes that one day it will ice pick its way up the ladder to the lofty status of being tolerated another side to every coin there have been times i ve not bought a pipe that i really liked because silly rationalizations planted themselves firmly in the middle of the road and wouldn t let me pass in the very early days of my collecting a particular shape that i was very much drawn to and still am was looked down upon pretty much en masse by many veterans of the pipe community though there were a few outliers and we did talk amongst ourselves about this peculiarity the majority seemed to meet the shape with abject disdain i don t know why and will never understand it the shape had been around for decades why would it continue to be in catalogues if so universally reviled but as a young somewhat insecure newbie angling to be accepted by the old guard i was afraid to put my own preference ahead of that of the taste makers and resisted the urge to acquire certain pipes for fear of having my membership blackballed ridiculous for sure but it felt pretty real to a pup trying to hang with the old dogs we re lucky to live in more accepting times i think there were times too i may have passed on a piece or ten because the brand maker wasn t à la mode those pipes are nice looking sure but the briar is young and inferior and they lack the pedigree of the maker having been around since before the big war and you ll never be able to sell or trade it later what you really want is something from y now that s a good pipe funnily enough some of today s desirable brands were yesterday s pariahs trading hands for relative peanuts because they weren t from the grown up firms i wish i d bought a bushel of them one fellow even told me that i should only chase pipes pre 1920 because i m not kidding the old vulcanite tastes better when it oxidizes than the modern stuff that was one tidbit i did not pay much mind to though it was and is amusing to think about don t get me wrong i learned a great deal from my early influences and i m grateful for every shred of knowledge they shared with me fortunately now that i ve become one of the old dogs i ve outgrown the need to impress anyone and chase what i like solely because i like it ignoring any real or projected judgment from the taste makers many good lessons have come along with the ride from there to here along with i admit a whole lot of pipes good and bad maybe too many i refuse to count them remember the mad jumble the pipe pundit huffing and puffing in the wildwoods you know the olde saw april s showers bring may flowers just to let you know pundit is all in on may and the flowers not that pundit is a knowledgeable horticulturist but walking about the woods on a bright sunny may day with wildflowers blooming and blushing whilst puffing a particular pipe is what spring is all about so to properly prepare in april pundit begins cleaning up several pipes that will make the wildflower walks this year and never mind that i receive strange looks and snubs as i lean over to view up close and personal a beautiful wildflower and snap a photo pipe firmly clenched natch for good reason spring brings to mind a couple of notable characters first is the poet robert frost and his poem birches one could do worse than be a swinger of birches is the last line of this wonderful poem about young boys climbing birches and bending them down to nearly touching ground this lovely poem by the four time pulitzer prize winner brings back memories of a crew of ragtag barefoot country boys swinging tall spindly pine trees to earthly experiences yes and falling from said pines as well now pundit is uncertain whether or even if frost was a pipe smoker the history of this is a bit confusing the other great original is one yogi berra the hall of fame catcher for the new york yankees who played 18 seasons with the bronx bombers he was a 15 time all star a three time american league mvp award winner and a 10 time world series champion as a player it is fairly well documented in photos that the great yogi smoked cigars from time to time the baseball hall of fame calls yogi a cultural icon whose fame transcended the baseball diamond yogi isms such as it ain t over till it s over and a nickel ain t worth a dime anymore have found their way into everyday vernacular for baseball fans this neatly brings us to pundit s favorite yogi quote this time of year when you come to a fork in the road take it let s just call yogi baseball s phrase laureate i take the forks along the trails looking for the rarest of wildflowers getting lost in the woods away from the madding crowds keeps dirty looks and slights shielded as i walk huff and puff that s precisely what a pipe puffing pundit does on his may wildflower walks you never know where you are likely to wind up but you will know when you get there my best yogism doncha know you can thank me later and the best pipe that takes me along on these nature walks why a white spot a northern briar an ashton or a cavicchi at times i also attempt my best holmesian pipe look with a peterson calabash shape with its iconic flared rim or all of the above and then others tossed into the camera bag for good measure it s a big camera bag and now that we have had a nice walk in the woods it s time for some pipe smokers of the past starting things off is not a personality so far back in the past j robert oppenheimer was born april 22 1904 in new york and died feb 18 1967 in princeton n j the famed so called father of the atomic bomb the oppenheimer movie just walked off with a plane load of oscars in this year s tinsel town extravaganza the biopic won seven including best picture best director for christopher nolan and best actor for cillian murphy oppenheimer celebrated pipe smoker and theoretical physicist was director of the los alamos laboratory in the thick of the manhattan project in world war ii the atomic bomb was fully enabled by july 1945 and dropped on japan in august it was the first nuclear explosion in history created by bombarding neutrons with plutonium and uranium which resulted in a nuclear fission explosion uh pundit doesn t profess to know fission from fizzling allegedly one of oppenheimer s most famous quotes now i am become death the destroyer of worlds was either around the time of the first bomb test in 1945 or shortly after another softer quote from the great scientist is genius sees the answer before the question and finally author gunter grass winner of the 1999 nobel prize in literature was born oct 16 1927 in danzig now gdansk poland and died april 13 2015 in lubeck germany grass also a poet reportedly smoked stanwell extra fine an old danish pipe tobacco popular in germany as well as w o larsen classic three nuns mac baren navy flake and dunhill early morning pipe i m always astonished by a forest it makes me realize that the fantasy of nature is much larger than my own fantasy i still have things to learn gunter grass and a parting shot pipe smokers are the mind workers of the world marching into spring february s international pipe smoking day was more than just another moment of relaxation for pundit it took me back to a time in paris when i was wandering somewhere around the 10th arrondissement of that great city and happened upon a shop with a sign that read tabac i had to go inside and look around and gaze at the goodies inside that delightful french pipe shop i had my first encounter with french pipes of any sort pundit was enamored of english pipes at the time and was dimly aware of much else let alone historic french made the shop owner walked us around his charming very french shop flooding me with his broken english my college french had lived beyond its best by date the owner waltzed over to a counter and showed me a chacom of the famous chacom and comoy family of saint claude a small town in eastern france which is the self described world capital of the pipe for good reason as it turns out a billiard chacom was purchased immediately but now sadly or perhaps inevitably that particular chacom pipe from the paris tabac shop has been lost to time who knows where or how it disappeared traded perhaps but the time in that tobacco shop was well spent it was here that i learned something of saint claude and its pipe history foreign to me up to then never mind it was the birthplace of briar pipes yes there are holes in pundit s knowledge of pipe history briar pipes were born in saint claude with chacom giving the french pipe bragging rights as offspring originals of pipes we love today it s even more remarkable that we can still find pipes that have been seasoning in the historical air of saint claude for years and purchase them at extraordinarily reasonable prices many pipe smokers are attracted to the history of pipes pundit included and those made in saint claude are some of the most genuine historically relevant pipes that any enthusiast can enjoy while roaming the ville lumière the city of light in the early 2000s pundit felt like a foot loose expat in paris say of the 1920s for pundit it was something akin to hanging out with the original expats such as sherwood anderson ezra pound ernest hemingway picasso f scott fitzgerald henry miller and james joyce just to name a few of the pundit s favs naturally a couple of these literary icons smoked pipes ezra pound and james joyce certainly hemingway however there are arguments on both sides of did he or didn t he smoke a pipe since hem was a pundit code hero i favor the he did side of the question now before drawing any wild conclusions this is no manner of imagination means to infer that pundit is included in the writing circle of the above names but you get the idea the expats of the 1920s were singular i suppose i became overawed when i discovered hemingway s paris apartment and then later enjoyed dinner in the corner booth of the famous literary restaurant les deux magots where hem and wife hadley had night out repasts you get the notion i hope that paris was special and the tabac shop made it even more of an event of a lifetime and if you need further reading on the birthplace of briar pipes i suggest you check out chuck station in pipe line at smokingpipes com his piece on the history of the comoy and chapuis pipe families is simply fascinating surrounding the advent of briar for pipes and now some pipe smokers of the past let s start with albert einstein the german born master of theoretical physics we think of mr e mc2 as the greatest scientist of any generation he was also famously known for smoking a pipe mostly revelation of course tobacco einstein was born march 14 1879 in ulm germany and died april 18 1955 in princeton n j by now you are familiar with einstein s famous quote about pipes if not here it is again i believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs next up is vincent willem van gogh a dutch post impressionist in his masterful works van gogh painted self portraits of himself smoking his pipe and you can find some shapes named for him in ser jacopo s picta picasso pipes van gogh was born march 30 1853 in zundert netherlands and died july 29 1890 in france the famed artist demonstrates how much he loved his pipes with this observation to do good work one must eat well be well housed have one s fling from time to time smoke one s pipe and drink one s coffee in peace vincent van gogh and to finish with a bit of musical flair is johann sebastian bach was a german composer known for orchestral music such as the mighty brandenburg concertos bach was born march 31 1685 in eisenach germany and died july 28 1750 and as we enter the stretch run into spring here is a parting shot from one of the most celebrated of pipe smokers in the spring i have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours mark twain of dear friends and pipes fair warning pundit is coming in lukewarm there arises a day methinks when it s time in pipelandia to thin the herd i always look to february for the thinning stint to begin don t recall why february but it just seems another gloomy wintry month is as good a time as any of course this is a moment for additions too doncha know it s not possible to conduct one operation without the other especially in dark february which even attracted the bard of stratford upon avon why what s the matter that you have such a february face so full of frost of storm and cloudiness from much ado about nothing emptying is not an easy task take for example the dilemma of a senior member of pipelandia ahem yours truly who has imbibed in our lovely hobby for 40 plus years over that span one becomes attached to those beautiful instruments of briar and leaf artifacts of art perhaps yes i realize we are talking four decades in pundit s pipeworld but it has been a fun and learning experience bringing relief to stressful moments and joy of new celebrations in life and job and conquered horizons quite naturally time has loaded spare rooms with pipes and the cellar with luscious aging tobacco blends taking a recent accounting was rather startling pipes on top of pipes resting in racks across desks and stashed in old shoe boxes gee it has been a long enlightening trek as well as confusing at times such as what was i thinking when i picked up this pipe and that tobacco plug that particular strong plug of virginia just about put pundit out on the floor so in pundit fashion i began the february process of thinning but ay there s the rub says shakespeare s hamlet i came across some old and dear friends how does one turn one s back on those deep rooted companions who shared good times and bad with pundit impossible but necessary it s akin to putting a veteran soldier out to pasture old soldiers never die they just fade away a legendary speech by gen douglas macarthur in his farewell to the u s congress in 1951 and as we know the general loved his missouri meerschaums cobs you can read an excellent history of the cob and the general at smokingpipes com yes i hear it now about the dilemma of thinning oh choices can be hard in life erm yes true but we are speaking about old heartthrobs old loves talking pipes here so don t go making assumptions the thinning out has always been difficult some are in much need of repair and others are still fit for action after deep cleaning no dunhills petersons cavicchis ser jacopos or ashtons william ashton taylor era savinellis are represented in the thinning group that collection of pipes is precious and holds a special rank in the herd you just can t bid adieu to an ashton pipe presented to you by the late great bill ashton taylor renowned british pipe crafter his pipes in the pundit collection are sacrosanct if not divinely righteous that leaves of course some old lovelies in tucked away boxes you get the notion it is difficult to say goodbye to 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