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@RockyMountainBriar
Leave it to you to have a Dr. Brown folding pocket pipe!
That has to be one of the more unique pipes in your collection. 
Was that the shape you found it in? Did you have to perform extensive refurbishing? Looks to be in great shape...
Decided to break out my decorked, reworked and restemmed Tom Spanno with some Lane LL-7. 
This one truly is a great smoking pipe...

I bought this folding pocket pipe years ago and refurbished it.  This is my first smoke in it.  I have it loaded with some Mac Baren’s “Royal Twist Deluxe Roll Cake” from 2023.  There are no markings on the pipe, but if I remember correctly, I think it is a “Dr. Brown”.  The “air hose” swivel type fittings definitely make for a “weird” airway, no pipe cleaner passing through those 90 degree bends (when the stem is straight or folded). I am getting a slight gurgle occasionally, cleared by removing the stem at the bowl fitting and blowing it out.  I packed these coins with no dry time and minimal rubbing out.  It probably would have performed better with some dry time.  Overall, the pipe seems to be working ok. It was a “well loved and well smoked” pipe by its previous companion, so it must work.

Only time for a small bowl this afternoon.
Been working on a couple of pipes and it took more of my time than I initially figured. 
Doing some Cest La Vie Creme Caramel in a restemmed Calabrest. 

Just returned from the grocery store before another snow comes in tonight/tomorrow. Decided to do some Taste of Spring in my Charlestowne cob...