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I was born in Berkeley, California in 1954, and for the first 30 or so years of my life, it was still “normal” to see men smoking their pipes publically. My next-door neighbor in the North Berkeley hills was a professor at U. C. Berkeley and a Chaucer scholar. I remember as a boy seeing this dapper man descend his stairs in the morning to go to work. Almost always he sported an elegant Harris tweed and puffed happily away on one of what l later learned was his regular rotation of Charatan pipes. | I was born in Berkeley, California in 1954, and for the first 30 or so years of my life, it was still “normal” to see men smoking their pipes publically. My next-door neighbor in the North Berkeley hills was a professor at U. C. Berkeley and a Chaucer scholar. I remember as a boy seeing this dapper man descend his stairs in the morning to go to work. Almost always he sported an elegant Harris tweed and puffed happily away on one of what l later learned was his regular rotation of Charatan pipes. | ||
My best friend’s father was also a pipe smoker and I suspect that my interest in the pipe began with my observations of these two men. (...) '''See more about | My best friend’s father was also a pipe smoker and I suspect that my interest in the pipe began with my observations of these two men. (...) '''See more about Dr. Hesse''' [https://pipedia.org/images/5/54/EH_Bio.pdf here].</font> | ||
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[[File:Ehforniture 4227.jpg|nolines|left|100px|]]<font size="3">[[File:Aspas-copy.png|40px]]'''In closing, I want to emphasize that to my taste the finest of the Dunhill pipes are as fine as any pipes ever made. This does not mean that I do not believe that there are other (e.g., English, Italian, Scandinavian and American) pipe makers who have produced equally outstanding products.[[File:Aspas.png|40px]] Hesse.</font> | [[File:Ehforniture 4227.jpg|nolines|left|100px|]]<font size="3">[[File:Aspas-copy.png|40px]]'''In closing, I want to emphasize that to my taste the finest of the Dunhill pipes are as fine as any pipes ever made. This does not mean that I do not believe that there are other (e.g., English, Italian, Scandinavian and American) pipe makers who have produced equally outstanding products.[[File:Aspas.png|40px]] Hesse.</font> | ||