A Santa Pipe

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I have plenty of time to write sentimental thoughts about Chrisrmas.  Early in the week, I had this post ready and had a hard time choosing between that one and another.  I deleted one post I wrote that I thought was pretty good.  But I deleted it because I just thought it too...  Well, it was too Christmas-y and maybe just too sentimental.  I'll wait until it's closer to Christmas.  There is nothing personal about the pipe above, but I saw this pipe on Smoking Pipes and at first I just scrolled by it thinking it was just another Meerschaum pipe.  

Then the more I looked at it and read about it, I thought to myself that this looks like a pipe Santa would smoke after a hard day in the workshop.  It just seemed to me that this pipe would look good with Santa smoking it.  And the more I looked at it and read about it, the more I liked it.  Santa wouldn't want anyone to buy this for him.  He would buy it for one reason.  He would like it and so do I.

Over the years, Santa just might have the finest of pipe collections, but he buys what he wishes to own.  However, he still smokes that clay pipe on Christmas Eve.  If he is ever seen, he wouldn't want anyone to see him smoking anything other than a clay pipe, although he's been known to smoke a cob pipe on at least a few Christmas Eves.  This pipe has all the right silver in just the right places.  It is a classic looking pipe that is designed after pipes made in 1800.  That is why Santa would own this pipe.  

Santa is very old wealth.  This pipe says wealth from that era.  Santa would have to pay $708.34 for it today.  The metal accents are pure silver, which would look so great in contrast to his snow white beard.  The silver says Christmas.  This pipe says it's old English.  Back then it might be made of Ivory, but today it's made of block Meerschaum.  Today it's a Barling pipe made by Kopp.  Barling pipes are now made in Denmark by the Nording pipe company.  So one could say this is a Nording pipe with the Barling name.

I almost passed this pipe up today, because the shape is like so many pipes I own.  But I decided to read about the pipe and it's history.  This pipe is modeled after the Barling pipe made in 1812 in England.  Once I read it's history, I fell in love with the silver accents.  It just has a real classy look to it.

It just seemed to be the kind of pipe I could imagine Santa smoking.  I just can't imagine Santa smoking a Dunhill pipe.  But I can imagine Santa smoking an Ivory shaded color pipe made in Denmark.  I just thought I'd share this pipe with you today.  I'm smoking my Nording Number 2 pipe with some Tropical Export tobacco this morning, having taken my Christmas Spice over to my son's place.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave 

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