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Another old codger blend tonight, “Granger”, loaded in an old codger pipe, a WDC with red triangle stem logo.  It’s another pipe I refurbished years ago, this is the first time smoking it since the refurb.  I don’t see a line name, it’s been worn/buffed away, if it ever had one.  It does have the WDC triangle shank stamp and “Italian Briar” stamped on the shank, no shape number is discernible.  It has a unique stinger, it looks like a mini muzzle brake, it seems to be working fine👍🏻.  I have some hot black coffee and some lemon soda water to pair.  This “Granger” is one of the better “Old Codgers”, I am truly enjoying it.  I still need to add some “Carter Hall” to my cellar 🙂

SG “Cannon Plug” in my own “Modified Bulldog”?

@RockyMountainBriar
Thank you. 
Good eye. It is a Baskerville.

First pipe after 2 days of BITTER cold!
Decided to do some Tinderbox After Dinner in a St. Claude made "The French Pipe" #6 I acquired while in Marseille. 
Nice pipe, nice blend...

@daveinlax
Your liberalness has caused you to misinterpret my comment.

My comment about him being our President is just a statement of fact. President Trump is the President of the entire nation inclusive of everyone. 
It is your right as an American citizen to not like the duly elected by a majority President. (Allow me to assume that you don't like him because you are "in LAX".)
I will also admit that you may interpret the First Amendment as giving you to right to comment how you want. (Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.) 

However, I am not Congress nor the U.S. Government. I also know that the right of free speech is not absolute. Courts have ruled that a person cannot go into a crowded theater and yell "FIRE" when there is not a fire. And, as a Dean of Journalism once said in a lecture, "The right to free speech does not protect a journalist from being fired if his publisher doesn't like what he says." 

Anyway, you have the right to make any comment you want. I have the right to not want to hear or read your comment. 

As for me being in the wrong place, I am an avid contributor to discussions on this forum. I don't just occasionally pop in to make a snide remark or promote a pipe show. 

Edit: You are correct though. A forum is not the place to be if I don't want comments. 

Hmm, some “old codger” Half-and-Half, in an “old codger” Yello-Bole from WWII years, smoked by an “old codger”….well, not really an “old codger”, but I’m working on it.
Notice, the pipe has a glass tube “stinger”, aluminum was needed for airplanes and whatnot.  I refurbished this pipe many years ago, and this is the first time I have smoked it.  I was wondering if it might gurgle…it did.  I’ll let you in on a little secret…when I was refurbishing this 80 year old and 100% intact pipe, I dropped the glass tube and cracked one end off, damn it!😖.  Luckily, it didn’t totally destroy it, and I was able to salvage about 3/4 - 7/8 of what was left.  Sooo, it is shorter than what it should be/was.  Consequently, it leaves a gap between the shank counterbore and the end of the tube.  I’m not sure how much this would contribute to condensation above and beyond the glass, but I’ll never know.  Damn it😖.  I have some Liqor 43, a Spanish liquor, enhancing my coffee.😋