And yes, it also looks remarkably like a penis - but it is awfully comfortable in the mouth. The theory is that smoke directed towards the roof of the mouth is less likely to "bite the tongue" if it gets too moist or hot. The p-lip: Continuing the quest to make the smoke as cool as possible, they introduced a stem with a hole that came out at the top.(No statistics available on how many cavalrymen set themselves on fire.) The mounting also gives the pipes a jaunty look These pipes can be pulled apart when hot without damaging them, so they could be disassembled and tossed in a pocket without worry. So Peterson developed the "Military Mounting:" the tapering stem that gets pushed entire into a larger shank, reinforced with metal. During a sudden call to action, they would tuck their lit pipes into their belts - and of course this added lots of broken stems to that war's casualties. Military Mounting: Cavalry soldiers, particularly during the Boer War, were dedicated pipe smokers.They also tapered the drill-hole in their stem, making it more effective at condensing. By drilling a reservoir for this moisture beneath the tenon, it could be collected and dumped out later. Moisture Reservoir: The moisture that builds up during the course of a smoke sometimes gets sucked up as you puff, giving you a nasty bitter mouthful.But this system turned out to be a hit for three reasons. You've got a burning chamber with a draft hole attached to a stem, and you might wonder why you'd need to improve on that. Now, in general a pipe is a pretty simple concept. In 1894, they patented their "Peterson Standard System" design. The Peterson factory in Dublin, Ireland, has been manufacturing briar tobacco pipes since the mid-19th century. I've smoked hundreds of bowls in this CAO Rhodesian, and it's just now showing some color. So despite the fact that we can smoke them all day, we tend to save them for special occasions.
If you drop it on a hard surface, you can kiss it good-bye.
You're not going to puff on one of these while you work in the garden, and you're probably not going to take it in the car with you. The biggest obstacle to getting a thoroughly darkened pipe is really Meerschaum's only down-side: it's fragile. Pipe smokers tend to be obsessive (borderline autistic) types, and there's an odd rivalry among meerschaum smokers to see who can get their pipe the darkest. They start off a pure white, but regular smoking will gradually turn them a coffee cream color, and eventually a rich, leather brown. These pipes have another fascinating quality: the darken with use. The Wife found this lady at an antique store and surprised me on Christmas! So it wasn't long until Turkish artisans started carving pipes in all kinds of wild shapes and selling it to European traders, who spread it around the world. If you soak it in water, it takes on the consistency of a hard cheese. The mineral is exceptionally light and naturally absorbent, so you can smoke it several times a day, every day, without souring the pipe. (Wooden briar pipes first caught on in the 1820s.) I would argue it's still the best choice for a cool, dry smoke. Meerschaum has actually been for pipes longer than briar - since the early 1700s, when it reduced the demand for clay pipes. It has apparently been found floating on the Black Sea (hence the literal translation of its name: "Sea Foam") although I think most of those easy pickings were scooped up long ago. Meerschaum is primarily mined in Turkey, almost exclusively beneath the city of Eskisehir. It's actually the remains of prehistoric sea crustaceans that have been fossilized and compressed over thousands of years. Meerschaum! Peterson! Silver-Mounted! Excuse me, what?!? Meershaumįor all the variety in shape and style of tobacco pipes, today most are made of just three materials: briar, corncob, or meerschaum. It combines several features that might be of interest to the new pipe collector as well as the historian, and there's a fun story behind it. spotted it sitting on my file cabinet in a previous post, and I thought it might be worth a post of its own. But I think this Peterson Meershaum pipe is pretty unique. I don't have a lot of rare pipes in my collection.
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