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'''Important Note''': '''''Several notable Charatan Collectors have indicated that some of the information in this article is either false or misleading, especially in regards to the dating of Charatan pipes. I have restored it by request, as it may prove of interest to some readers. Please be advised that parts of this article are thought to be inaccurate by some of the community of Charatan collectors.''''' --[[User:Sethile|sethile]] ([[User talk:Sethile|talk]]) 21:27, 21 November 2013 (UTC) | |||
== Memories of Charatan Pipes and Notes on their Dating == | |||
'''by Ivy Ryan''' | |||
''This article was originally published in 1998 in The Pipe Collector, the North American Society of Pipe Collectors newsletter ([http://www.naspc.org/ NASPC]), and is reprinted here by permission. It's a great group--consider joining.'' | ''This article was originally published in 1998 in The Pipe Collector, the North American Society of Pipe Collectors newsletter ([http://www.naspc.org/ NASPC]), and is reprinted here by permission. It's a great group--consider joining.'' | ||
=== Introduction === | |||
I joined the Women's Army Corps in 1963 and went through advanced training at Fort Monmouth from late 1963 to early 1964. I spent 20 years in the WAC and then the regular Army after the WAC was closed out. I had never smoked, though my parents did, and my father had smoked a pipe before I was born. What changed was that I was put into a barracks at Monmouth in which all the gals smoked. I have always found cigarettes to be irritating, but I decided to try fighting smoke with smoke. I went off-post to the Eatontown News and Smokes to check my options. A really nice old Italian man ran the place-named Luigi, I think-who was a bit confused by my mission. As far as he was concerned, women just didn't smoke cigars, and a pipe was out of the question. On the other hand, he was adaptable, and it was the early 60s: If I wanted to buy a pipe and learn to smoke it, that was my business. My first pipe was a GBD Collector Apple with fantastic birds-eye. Big for me, though I am a big woman, but it was SO beautiful. | I joined the Women's Army Corps in 1963 and went through advanced training at Fort Monmouth from late 1963 to early 1964. I spent 20 years in the WAC and then the regular Army after the WAC was closed out. I had never smoked, though my parents did, and my father had smoked a pipe before I was born. What changed was that I was put into a barracks at Monmouth in which all the gals smoked. I have always found cigarettes to be irritating, but I decided to try fighting smoke with smoke. I went off-post to the Eatontown News and Smokes to check my options. A really nice old Italian man ran the place-named Luigi, I think-who was a bit confused by my mission. As far as he was concerned, women just didn't smoke cigars, and a pipe was out of the question. On the other hand, he was adaptable, and it was the early 60s: If I wanted to buy a pipe and learn to smoke it, that was my business. My first pipe was a GBD Collector Apple with fantastic birds-eye. Big for me, though I am a big woman, but it was SO beautiful. | ||