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After having -30 C (-22 F) for almost a week, -5 C (23 F) feels almost like summer now.
Enjoying nice weather at the back yard. With Navy flakes from jarl.
http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/...psa8uwx8nz.jpg
The shape is very close to lovat. Jarl Chieftan pipes were made by gent named Niels Mogens Jørgensen, Bramdrupdam, Denmark. No other markings except 'Made in Denmark'.
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Very beautiful tea glass you have there. We call these eastern style tea glasses with metal holders as 'staika'.
Btw the eagle with two heads is very well known although not very popular symbol here. Due some obvious historic reasons.
Here's a pic of some old paintings/post cards of a Suomi-neito (Finnish maiden/that's how we every now and then call our country). On the two pics on the left there's also that very same two headed eagle:
http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/...psw0fz4za7.jpg
And here's one of the modern versions of a maiden with a left hand torn off (kids don't look!):
http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/...psydrpbtm8.jpg
Smoking Broun Clunee - Rattrays with an extra dose granulated perique added in a sandblasted billiard =
Also working on few billiard pipes now .
A billiard smoker cannot have enought billiard pipes - you know ha ha ha
She doesn't look too worried about having just lost an arm. I'd be screaming.