Another pipe maker lost to history.  This design of bowl is still called the bulldog.  Note the "amber mouthpiece."  Amber was used as such long ago, but it didn't wear well, because it became too fragile and brittle and broke easily.  Some modern stem-makers create hard plastic (acrylic) stems to imitate amber because of its attractive appearance.

If an old pipe like this was still floating around somewhere with an amber stem attached, it would likely have a very high collectible value, and most people probably wouldn't smoke it for fear of breaking it.

Just to have some activity today, here's an old ad from Winchester.

I've been working on yet another made-from-scratch design at high res (2000x2000 at 200 dpi) that I hope will work for a t-shirt.

Other than that, I've been eating enchiladas followed by cherry cheesecake and taking it easy in the cool weather.

In 1941 Kaywoodie was still selling meerschaums; by the end of the war they wouldn't have any left and had come up with yet another gimmick to replace them.  I haven't been able to find ads for the replacement pipe yet, but I'm sure one will turn up eventually.

The $10 pipe above is an actual calabash, not just calabash-shaped.  The outer bowl is from a calabash gourd, with a meerschaum insert.  The insert can also be made from clay or porcelain.

Another pipe from Demuth & Co., this time with an unusual flat, rectangular filter.  Most filter pipes use a cylindrical filter.

I guess filters were good for something, back when all you could get was that gunky, syrupy drugstore stuff (yuck!).  Pipe companies tried everything they could to cut down on tongue-bite and make the smoke "cooler and drier," when all they really needed to do was use some decent tobacco that was pumped full of propylene glycol, sugar and artificial flavors.

I will admit that I started out on that junk.  I think my first pouch was some Captain Black whiskey flavored.  It smelled great in the pouch.  Some cherry flavored stuff that I had once also smelled great in the pouch, and the same goes for some heavy black Cavendish that was flavored with black walnut.

Now, I would not object to them being used as sachets, but I woudn't smoke them.

Not much to say today, so I'll post another old ad.  From some time around 1960, most likely.  I've read that the H&R M-14 was notorious for poor headspacing and even sometimes oversized barrels.

Oh, and I already have another photoshop ready but I thought I'd try to scroll the old ones down off the front page first, or at least wait a couple of days.

"Why do I say that?  Well, just as soon as you come into the house and pack your pipe with Granger, you seem to be in a good humor."

Granger ads of this period positively reek of this stuff.  Man comes home from work, flops down with his pipe, stay-at-home little woman coos over him and compliments him on his choice of pipe tobacco.  Kind of nauseating, to me.

Granger is still made, and is just a plain burley tobacco, but as with other allegedly "plain" tobaccos that are old traditional American smokes, it is probably saturated with propylene glycol and I'm sure I would find it horrendous, right in the same category with Half & Half, Sir Walter Raleigh, Prince Albert, et. al.

This may not be entirely accurate, because I haven't spent a lot of time researching this one.  Fox was a gun company known for its shotguns which was bought by Savage.  Savage produced Fox shotguns for several decades, as far as I can tell.  Based on the batch of ads this came in, I can only say this ad must be late 50s/early 60s.

I think Savage produced Fox shotguns well into 80s, and they were known as a line of affordable doubles.

Manufactured mid-60s to mid-80s, I believe.  I seem to remember someone in my family having one of these, but I can't remember exactly who.  Maybe my uncle.

Remington's "first gas operated, autoloading shotgun without the Browning-type recoiling action," according to Remington.  Manufactured 1956-63, approximately 271,000 produced.  Made in 12, 16 and 20 gauges.