The Briar Files

Today I spent over an hour packing away my recent big tobacco order--big for me, anyway, at 3 pounds. One pound each of Bayou Night, Gray G...

Salvador Felip Jacint Dalí Domènech (1904-1989) Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dalí, ...

"Baldwin can relax anywhere when he's smoking his Dr. Grabow Pre-Smoked Pipe."

Irving Wallace (1916-1990) "To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of sur...

Read all about it at the International Pipe Smoking Day website. Today’s hectic environment almost dictates that we run on full efficiency,...

This undated Sterncrest ad is interesting to me for the visual at the top that shows how small the finished stummel is in relation to the ra...

Graham Arthur Chapman (1941 - 1989) The humor of the group collectively known as Monty Python has been a great influence on me. Here is a c...

I don't know if Durham made tobacco for pipe smoking or just for roll-your-own cigarettes, but that was more than 6 million of today...

Alan Watts (1915 - 1973) "Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth." Born in England in 1915, Alan Watts at...

Okay, so it isn't a pipe ad, but it's my blog and I'll post what I want. This 1934 ad for Campbell's Tomato Soup features a...

Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961) Carl Jung, who I don't think I can say anything about that you can't find elsewhere or don't alre...

click to enlarge I snagged this one from somewhere on ye olde internets, but no date was recorded. I'd say probably 40s or early 50...

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a li...

I think this may be one of the best search hits I've ever had.

It's hard to read all the fine print on this one, but here's another weird Kaywoodie ad in which it is claimed that the drinkless st...

I filled a pipe and reached for the packet of paper matches. I lit the pipe carefully. She watched that with approval. Pipe smokers were ...

Found at one of my regular reads: Friends of Irony . A commenter there says it's a photo of the Baker Street tube station.

Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) I occurred to me that I hadn't featured one of the most famous pipe smokers of all time. Wikipedia has a...

He accidentally blended it 53 times before he got it right. Amazing!

Madame Torogai is a character from the anime series Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit . She is a very old and petite woman who is a very wi...