This is not a blog post but an effort to defray expenses for Winston’s tuition at the world-renowned Daisy Hill Puppy School.* As you may recall, just before Christmas I lost my 16 year companion Cozy Dog (named after the famous Route 66 corn dog stand). Winston Toodle Toots was already on the bus, however, and arrived New Year’s Day, to my great joy. Gigi named him after Churchill (even though he’s an Aussie and not a bulldog), and I gave him the Toodle and Toots after characters in Charles Dickens’s amazing Dombey and Son. We knew, being dogists, that WTT would inevitably be both a toodle or a toot depending on his mood.
The Churchill Portrait, courtesy Kathleen Mary Godwin
While he’s been both a toodle and a toot in more or less equal measure as he goes through the first of his two teething stages, he’s also become something of a Tazmanian Devil in the studio. Today it was a pipe cleaner, curled and soggy and lodged in the back of his mouth. Two days ago, he fished out an empty tin of Marlin Flake from somewhere. It looked like the Mob had riddled it with bullets. Today, he assaulted a full tin, managing to pop the seal on it. Last week? I found a valued pipe on the floor, with some suspicious meteor strikes in the finish that looked like bite marks to me. He said no, termites. He’s quick on his feet, that boy.
So I’ve decided, on his behalf, to offer this Catch & Release sale to help defray tuition and restock my dwindling supplies of medicinal Redbreast and Guinness Foreign Extra Stout, these cordials being the best remedies I’ve found (besides my pipe) to maintaining high standards of training and care for the young pup.
If you’re interested in adding any of the following Pees to your rotation, drop me a line at petegeek1896@gmail.com.
First come, first served.
Payment by PayPal (although I do two buddies who have sent me money orders).
While “Friends & Family” is appreciated, it’s not required.
Postage in the US $10.
If you live elsewhere, we’ll say $25 and I’ll pay the difference.
SOLD
Silver Cap Natural 20s, HM 2025 Estate. $295.
317 System Standard, NOS w/Box & Ephemera, Late Republic. $150.
What a beauty! I had no idea it was difficult to execute this smallest System shape until I began looking around and saw it hasn’t been done very well for several decades. This Late Republic is my idea of the Great System: the classic Peterson Grain, the classic 317 Patent shape, great box, Chat brochure.
309 Rustic Standard System, Early Dublin Era (c. 1995-2005) Estate, $80.
337 Kildare Sub-System w/Stinger, NOS w/K&P pre-carb, c. 1960s (?). $175.
When Mike Bearos’s dad (now retired) cleaned this NOS up, he added the K&P pre-carb, which was typical of his remarkable work in Serbia. The mortise is clear (unstained) wood. This is an old-style “Sub-System,” that is, it is drilled as a System (along the lines of the Dunmore Systems). What intrigues me is how the tenon extension–a “stinger” will improve the smoking. I asked Gary Hamilton if he could source some of this tube, as I’d love to try it on some of my other Petes. The low stem bend, stinger, white painted P, and unusual shape–the 337–lead me to guess the 1960s.
Cobble XL02 Estate, HM 2025 Estate. $110.
SOLD
160th Anniversary Rustic Pat OB Estate, $90.
SOLD
X86 Sterling, MADE IN IRELAND in a Circle COM, Early Republic, $85.
K&P DUBLIN 207 Pot, Canadian Market, F/T Estate. $65.
A3 Sterling Donegal Rocky, HM 1999, $85.
This is from the first Antique Collection in 1996, the original a small System.
If you have questions, want measurements of anything you can’t locate at SPC or Worthpoint, drop me a line at petegeek1896@gmail.com.
from
The Pipe Smoaker’s Book of Apothegms:
Desert Father Abba Poeman said,
“A dog is better than a man, for he loves and does not judge.”
*Established in 1965 by “Sparky” Schultz.
Intellectual Property of Kapp & Peterson and Laudisi Enterprises
used with their gracious permission.
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Great afternoon story time. That reminds me of my friend Don, (whom I wrote about to you in an earlier email) who’s Golden Retriever pup reduced 3 of his pipes to kindling. I envy whoever gets the Silver Cap -what a beauty and my favourite shape too – but the stable is adequately full at the moment. PTL
Beautiful puppy! He needs a squeaky pipe chew toy.