Reclaiming the legacy of a Comoy’s Made in London England P510 – D Billiard

The Lot of 66, as I have called it, was probably my first large acquisition of pipes.  I saw the Lot on eBay in September 2017.  The by-line by the seller in Georgetown, Texas, was this: “Huge Lot of 66 Smoking Pipes, Pre-Owned, Pre-Smoked and Deeply Loved.”  The final tag caught my attention.  The seller …

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A Five-Month Adventure restoring an Exquisite Ser Jacopo Spongia R2 of Italy

This Ser Jacopo Rusticated Bent Egg came into my possession in a totally serendipitous way in June of 2021.  The world was still up in the Covid frenzy, and my wife and I were still transitioning from life in Bulgaria to setting up shop in Golden, Colorado.  One of the necessities of life I was …

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