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...humb|right|50px|]]'''Rare Smoke: The Ultimate Guide to Pipe Collecting, by Richard Carleton Hacker''' Hardcover: 265 pages, Publisher: Richard Carleton Hacker (December 1, 1999), Language: English, ISBN-10: 0931253101,

...in 1996, followed by ''The Pipe Collector'' since March 1997. The Sherlock Holmes Pipe Club has its ''Gazette''. The Pipe Club of Lebanon, established in 200 ...ed in 1940, and ''The Adventure of the Speckled Band'' was one of Sherlock Holmes’s short stories. I’ve not contacted the Club, but it could it be the re

...an also be negative, by driving up prices artificially when a new Sherlock Holmes or Lord of the Rings movie comes out.” I do not believe that “trends” ...opular movies and smoked by someone from central casting, such as Sherlock Holmes and his calabash, Gandalf and his churchwarden, and Bing Crosby and his tra

In his book, “The Ultimate Pipe Book”, Richard Carleton Hacker writes American pipe collectors “seem to be more preoccup ...s each, even though neither of them was expecting a call from yours truly. Richard Carleton Hacker literally allowed his dinner to get cold one evening while

Dans son livre "“The Ultimate Pipe Book”, Richard Carleton Hacker écrit que les collectionneurs de pipe américains "semblen ...différentes chacun, alors qu’aucun d’eux n’attendait un appel de ma part. Richard Carleton Hacker a littéralement laissé son repas refroidir un soir pendan

...Pipe box, courtesy Doug Valitchka]]In his book, “The Ultimate Pipe Book”, Richard Carleton Hacker writes American pipe collectors “seem to be more preoccup ...s each, even though neither of them was expecting a call from yours truly. Richard Carleton Hacker literally allowed his dinner to get cold one evening while

...American collectors. For example, there is hardly a mention of Ivarsson in Richard Carleton Hacker's otherwise excellent work, The Ultimate Pipe Book. There i ...ase, they examined the pipe in the same way that you might expect Sherlock Holmes to examine an important piece of evidence. First they turned it this way, t

..., a mineral which may very well have been sepiolite. Later in 1794 Kirwan [Richard Kirwan, author of Earths and Stones] referred to sepiolite as Myrsen and [w ...h New Philosophical Journal'', Vol. XXXII, 1842, 147). Even Oliver Wendell Holmes made mention of this: “The meerschaum is but a poor affair until it has b

...the fire of the meerschaum as in the sunshine of October!” (Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Meerschaum,” 1858). ...brown, it is, side by side with a nice clean new meerschaum, a disgrace” (Richard Le Gallienne, ''Attitudes and Avowals'', 1910).

...n the late 16th century, when Sir Thomas Cavendish commanded a ship in Sir Richard Grenville's expedition to Virginia in 1585, and discovered that by dipping ...one), and the archived ASP posts of Irwin Friedman, Ray Newton, and Robert Holmes.

...a few examples. Not to mention specific books on Castello Pipes, Sherlock Holmes As A Pipe Smoker and countless books on tobacco.” But under the subheadin