Cruzatte
50 Cal.
You know.....as for myself, at about $15.00 a copy, (or a little less) I think I'll stick to clays for rendezvous or events at historical sites.
Yup....looks like a candle snuffer to me.I'm wondering since I've only seen like three extant examples, and they look like this:
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So folks seem to assume these are "tobacco" pipes, but one auction house has this type of item identified as a "bubble" pipe toy, from 1850
https://www.rubylane.com/item/134693-MS--1115/Toy-Tin-Bubble-Pipe-c-1850
I can't find the image of the first one that I saw that was similar in shape, but was fully formed from a rolled piece of tin, and merely bent at the joint..., and it looked like a pipe..., but when inverted, looked like.... a candle snuffer...
Just wondering....
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GOOD EYE....I looked right at that joint and completely missed that.If soldered, that pretty much removes it from the smoking pipe category...
Aluminium cooking vessels have been linked to alzheimers, I hate to think what smoking through it would doView attachment 5734 I quit smoking years ago, but from time to time I do enjoy an occasional cigar or a bowl of tobacco around the camp fire.
I’ve always liked the looks of an antler pipe, but “that smell” of burning antler would be a problem.
So here’s what I came up with, out of shear boredom...
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I drilled the bowl hole then inserted an aluminum sewing thimble, drilled a small hole in the bottom too allow the smoke thru.
The stem was made from cane, much like the corn cob pipes I smoked as a kid, filled with rabbit tobacco or corn silk.
Not pc/hc in anyway, just a fun project on a rainy Winters day.
I still haven’t tried it out as of yet....
That's been debunked, the "aluminum link" isn't at all been found to be conclusive, and the aluminum in the cooking vessel use is trivial to other sources of the metal to which people are exposed. For example the Mayo Clinic does not list avoiding aluminum in one's food preparation as one of the preventive measures. They Mayo Clinic does suggest quitting smoking of cigarettes to stave off Alzheimers, and I think the chances of lung or tongue cancer are the threat from smoking any pipe.Aluminium cooking vessels have been linked to alzheimers, I hate to think what smoking through it would do
I forget.....Eh....what were we talking about?So far there is not much of a link between pipe and shorter life. You have to be a heavy pipe smoker, five or more bowls a day to show any decrease.
But,
Let’s say you got ALZ from smoking an aluminum pipe, then you would forget to smoke, so would that be a bad thing if you thought pipe smoking was bad?
( Hyperbole and sarcasm aleart)
Wouldn't a metal smoking pipe get uncomfortably hot to handle/smoke?
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