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Lane Tobacco Ltd.’s The Happy Smoker: Spring/Summer 1946


Posted by Steve Laug

This is another of the old pipe booklets that was posted on the Pipe Club of Brasil Group on Facebook. Victor C. Naddeo, the Administrator of that group and seems to post this kind of pipe memorabilia quite often. I am not sure where he finds them all but all of them have been interesting. He posted this Lane Tobacco Ltd. “The Happy Smoker” magazine a while ago. When I first started smoking a pipe I smoked a lot of Lanes 1Q and a Black & Tan that had an R# that I cannot remember. When I saw this old booklet, it brought back a lot of memories of those days. I would pick up the tobacco in San Diego or in Carlsbad when I lived there. Click on the pictures and they will enlarge. Read the pipe descriptions and prices as well as the tobacco descriptions and let them take you back in time. Thank you Victor for posting these on the Pipe Club Brasil Group. If you would like to check out the group on Facebook here is the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1001391469961131/

A 1977 Iwan Ries & Co. (IRC) Catalogue


I have put many of the catalogues I was given on the blog for you to enjoy over the recent months. Last evening I was going through the remaining pieces in the envelope and found that there was also this 1977 IRC booklet from Iwan Ries & Co. of Chicago, Illinois. It was really fun to read through last evening so today i scanned it so I could share it with all of you. I find it an enjoyable read to go through the pipes and tobaccos that are listed from the time when I was in university. Sometimes I wish there was a way to go back and pick up some of these amazing pipes and tobaccos.

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