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[2jakes]

If looks could kill !

Unknown source.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

If looks could kill ! View attachment 89772
Unknown source.

Maybe they were casing the bank?

 

[Frunobulax]

Maybe they were casing the bank?

Or they're the security team.


Sent directly from my mind to yours.

 

[Bamaboots]

I posted a pic of these fellows some time ago but since Huntsville recently dedicated a community center showcased by a statue in their honor, I felt it worth a repost.

 

[2jakes]

@Bamaboots
Great images. What lens for close-up
of the statue?


From Library of Congress.

Buffalo soldiers of the 25th Infantry, some wearing buffalo robes, Ft. Keogh, Montana. Chr. Barthelmess, photographer, Fort Keogh, Montana.

 

[2jakes]

Maybe they were casing the bank?

“Don’t look, don’t ask!”

I was across the border shooting news
video of flooding in the village.
Spotted soldiers rummaging through a
deserted house.
I saw them before they saw me.

I lowered my camera and head and kept
walking. I could feel their eyes on me.
(it’s an entirely different way of life, they
will shoot if provoked)

I learned this at a young age when confronted by a vicious dog.

You don’t look them in the eyes and
they will not attack.

Not 100% perfect.... but it has helped me in the past.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

^^^I've seen guys smoke their pipe without a wind cap, upside-down in the rain. I never could do it.

 

[Bamaboots]

Great images. What lens for close-up
of the statue?

Thanks, Jake but I can't take credit for them. Pulled it off the net after it was announced in the news this week.

 

[2jakes]

@ Hurricane Jack
Sharp observation!


First time I smoked a pipe was a corn cob from Kentucky.
Filled it with cheap sweet smelling “cherry blend”.
The fragrance might be ok from a distance....I don’t know.

But soon after I got the worse case of upset stomach in my life.
The dummy inhaled !

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Chief Whirlwind Soldier from Rosebud Reservation, S.D. Sioux. 1925.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

No Cherry for me either!

Fascinating headdress the Chief has!

 

[2jakes]

Zapatistas on the move.


I’m wearing my “don’t look... don’t ask” facade!

 

[Michael R.]

@ Hurricane Jack
Sharp observation!


First time I smoked a pipe was a corn cob from Kentucky.
Filled it with cheap sweet smelling “cherry blend”.

That was the worse case of upset stomach in my life.

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Chief Whirlwind Soldier from Rosebud Reservation, S.D. Sioux. 1925.

I think I've got his Pipe . It came from a charity auction in North or South Dakota . A Comoy that was filthy , but cleaned up great . Silver band . No Cherry for me either .

 

[Hurricane Jack]

I think I've got his Pipe . It came from a charity auction in North or South Dakota . A Comoy that was filthy , but cleaned up great . Silver band . No Cherry for me either .

Really? How long ago was the auction? I thought it might be a tankard with the stem set high instead of it being upside-down. Is the silver band hallmarked?

I thought the Buffalo Soldier's pipe might have a military mount.

 

[Michael R.]

Really? How long ago was the auction? I thought it might be a tankard with the stem set high instead of it being upside-down. Is the silver band hallmarked?

I thought the Buffalo Soldier's pipe might have a military mount.

I think I bought it around 2009-10 . Its a Comoy's "The Oxford" Hallmark 925 , but I can't make out the cartouche emblems . The auction was for an orphanage . The stem has oxidized again , its a Poker .

 

[Hurricane Jack]

The stem has oxidized again...

I use OxiClean & a Magic Eraser when the sit for a while & need a clean & polish.

 

[2jakes]

If I had hair like this.... I’d flaunt it too!

Now I’m hankering for a Calabash!
How heavy are they?

I already have this and is comfortably warm.

I’m at that age where I don’t really give two puffs what others think
of what I enjoy wearing!

 

[2jakes]

First, I need a smoking jacket!

BTW: Early color image...
This is an “Autochrome" of Mark Twain by Alvin Langdon Coburn made in 1908.
Royal Photographic Society / Getty Images.

 

[2jakes]

Is there such a thing as the right blend tobacco for these pipes or is it a matter of
personal taste & preference ?

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Just personal taste & preference. You can get a Calabash pipe made of all briar if you don't want the meerschaum liner.

 

[Michael R.]

Personally I designated a Pipe to Latakia , another to Virginias , and if for some reason I wanted aromatic one for that . But if you don't care it doesn't really matter . Only the Latakia , and especially the Aromatic bleed through when smoking Virginias . Personal choice . Back to regularly scheduled Non-Shorpy Web All Stars .