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Best Wishes for a Safe and Happy New Year!
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Lilly and Mason Briar Boswell, standing with "St. Nick" in
our store. "St. Nick" is enjoying a bowl of Boswell's Best in his new Boswell Rusticated Freehand!
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Lilly and Mason Briar Boswell, checking out the decorations in our smoking parlor.
Happy Holidays!
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Lilly Boswell, age 5, making sure the "Christmas Cookie" blend smells just right! |
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The next time you come to our store, try some pipe cookies, complements of Lilly and Mason Briar Boswell !!! |
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Bo is ready for the big Penn State vs. Ohio State game this weekend!
GO STATE!!!
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If you've looked at our Pipes For Sale page lately, then you've seen some of the amazing pictures Gail has taken of some freehands. Autumn in Pennsylvania is the perfect scenery to highlight the beauty of these Boswell pipes! |
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A New Face At Boswell'S...............
The next time you stop in, say "hello" to Alex Stanish. Alex stopped in our store for the first time on his 18th birthday, and he hasn't left since then!
Alex enjoys helping customers find a new favorite tobacco blend, pipe, or cigar, and he loves hearing customers feedback. He's also our resident culinary genius, and he enjoys paring his dishes with different tobacco blends. His current favorites are Dan's Blend, Canadian style pipes, and Trinidad Anniversary cigars.
Welcome Alex!
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Little tube of mighty pow'r,
Charmer of an idle hour,
Object of my warm desire.
~Isaac Hawkins Browne, "A Pipe of Tobacco"
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"Puff your smoke heavenward, and pitch your thoughts toward the clouds." |
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*We recently received a new shipment of briar wood! We’ve been waiting for it since January, and it finally came in to port from Greece. Here are some pictures of J.M. and Dan looking over the blocks after they were delivered by tractor trailer. Beautiful wood! |
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“Pipe Lore: The Legend of Briar”
“In 1857,” says Al, nesting into his easy chair, ever-present pipe in hand, “a French nobleman was traveling through the southernmost part of his country’s Jura Mountains. In a small village called Saint-Claude, he settled down for a meal and the enjoyment of his favorite Turkish meerschaum pipe. But, he broke the brittle bowl!
“As it turned out,” Al continues, “a local woodcarver happened to have a chunk of aged root burl from the white heath tree {Erica arborea}, a woody shrub that grows in harsh, rocky soil. It took the carver all night to carve a pipe from the rocklike wood. After trying the new pipe,” Al puffs for emphasis, “ the elegant “Frenchman thought it far superior to his old meerschaum. From that day on, briar’s fame spread- first throughout France, then all of Europe.
“Today, 90 percent of all pipes are made of briar. And, the village of Saint-Claude calls itself the world’s briar-pipe capital.”
Briar destined for the world’s finest pipes still comes from the mountain country around the Mediterranean Sea in France, Italy, Greece, Spain, and the islands of Corsica and Sicily. In these countries, diggers unearth the root burls and deliver them to the mills. There, saws cut the largest part of the burls into blocks called ebauchons. Blocks sawn from the upper and outer layer of the burl – distinguished by a pebble-textured “skin” – are named plateaux, and command top dollar.*
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Smoke your pipe and be silent; there's only wind and smoke in the world. ~Irish Proverb |
"The Story In a Pipe and Cigar"
"It is now generally agreed that the word tobacco is derived from "tobago", which was an Indian pipe. The tobago was Y-shaped, and usually consisted of a hollow, forked reed, the two prongs of which were fitted into the nostrils, the smoke being drawn from the tobacco placed in the end of the stem. The islands of Tobago, contrary to the belief of many, did not furnish the name for tobacco, but on the other hand, it was given that name by Columbus, owing to its resemblance in shape to the Indian pipe."
"While tobacco is now found growing in all inhabited countries, it is a native of the Americas and adjacent islands. Its discovery by civilized man was coincident with the discovery of this continent by Christopher Columbus in 1492. Columbus and his adventurous sailors found the native Indians using the weed on the explorer's first visit to the new world. Investigation has established that the plant was first used as a religious rite and gradually became a social habit among the natives. Columbus and his Castilian successors carried the weed to Spain. Sir Walter Raleigh took it to England; Jean Nicot, whose name is immortalized in nicotine, introduced it to the French; adventurous traders brought the seed to Turkey and Syria, and Spanish argosies carried it westward from Mexico to the Phillippines and thence to China and Japan. Thus, within two centuries after its discovery, tobacco was being cultivated in nearly every country and was being used by every race of men."
-The Tobacco Leaf Publishing Co.
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It has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. ~Mark Twain |
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