The Briar Files

Painting by Claude Raguet Hirst (1855-1942).  Painted 1890s.  Click to enlarge.

Walter Cronkite as a student at the University of Texas in Austin.

World War I soldier’s room untouched for almost 100 years

The only Christmas presents William Faulkner would accept from his family were pipe cleaners. Faulkner's stepson, Malcolm Franklin, w...

From Puck magazine, 1888. via the Appendix

Unpublished Raymond Chandler work discovered in Library of Congress An early, never-before-published work by crime novelist Raymond Chandl...

A few days ago I remembered that I still had that sample of C&D's Briar Fox that I had received from smokingpipes.com a while back w...

This is one of those things that your mileage is definitely going to vary on, but I thought I would pass this on.  I cleaned out the back of...

Joe Gillan and Roy Hardesty (with pipe) of the Texas Rangers, photographed in Mexia, Texas in 1923.  Thanks to Traces of Texas (Facebook ...

click to enlarge Buy a jacket, get a free pipe! Thanks to Bill Crider's Pop Culture Blog .

click to enlarge Nick Merfelder petting his dog in Fort Davis in 1896. Mr. Merfelder was born in Bavaria, immigrated to the United St...

From Miskatonic U .

A man of the Svan people with traditional dagger and long pipe in the village of Mestia in the mountains of Georgia, Russian Empire, circ...