3rd of May, 2007 – Pheasant Run Resort hotel in Chicago

Duration: 6 hours

Each participant will get 2 pipes: Zbigniew Bednarczyk pipe and Henryk worobiec pipe (pipe makers from Przemysl, Poland)

Tobacco used:


Cornell & Diehl

1.  Virginia flake
2.  #808 Burley Straight
3.  #554 biliard Room

and

Park-Lane Tabacconist, NY

4.  Park-Lane Luxury MIxture No. 14
– tobacco of V National Pipe-smoking contest in Chicago

Speaker: Jacek Schmidt – Academie International de la Pipe member, Poznan Pipe Collectors Club member

Zbigniew Bednarczyk pipe:


Henryk worobiec pipe:


Those interested in participating should write to Frank Burla – Chicago Pipe Show 2007 organizer:  fpburla@aol.com

Seminar is limited to 30 participants.
Cost: US Dollar 50

Program seminarium:
- how to shred different types of tobacco,
- how to fill a pipe,
- how to light tobacco in a pipe,
- how to take out the ash with the tamper,
- how to bring the amber into the surface of tobacco that the amber will be visible,
- how to make successful finish, e.g. burn all the tobacco inside
- difficulties and how to get rid of

27th of December 2006 Krzysztof Solinski passed away.
He was a wonderful, cheerful, modest man, great tester of non-briar pipes, pipe expert, poet, prose writer, editor and finally pipe smoker.
We will miss meetings and long conversations about pipe with him.
Our sincere condolences to the family and those close to Krzysztof.

Jacek Schmidt

The report from the contest you can see in the reports section.

José Joaquín Herrera V. – President of Circulo de la Pipa Mexico sent us an information about Christmass meeting.

Here you have this letter:

Dear Friends,

I remind you of traditional Christmas meeting (a pipe smoking contest and a dinner) which will take place next Friday, 8th of December, in 'El otro lugar de la Mancha' restaurant, Esopo no. 11, Col. Polanco.

Christmass Contest in slow pipe smoking

Contest tobacco:  Borkum Riff Vanilla Cavendish (dark Kentucky and Burley mixture)

You can use your own pipe in the contest (the condition is that this pipe should have been used in the CIPC contest before) and the participation fee is 30 Pesos (circa US Dollars 3).

You can get a brand new contest pipe made especially for the club by Nprma de Mexico. The paritcipation fee is 200 Pesos (circa US Dollars 20) respectively.

There will be great prizes and a extraordinary trophy for the winner.

Best regards,

José Joaquín Herrera V.

Original letter from José you can find in the 'more' part of this message.

Pierre Pams – Liverpool (Mexican superstore network) director is a pipe-smoker and a great pipe-collector. His huge collection of pipes is exposed in his huge condominium. He think to move his collection to a better place for exposition and found a pipe museum. Pierre is a excellent popularizer on smoking-pipes thema.

I went to Mexico on invitation of President Circulo de la Pipa Mexico José Joaquín Herrera and his wife Dulce. We know each other very well for couple of years and finaly it happened that I could see that beautiful and so different, from Polish point of view, country.

Tu mozesz zmienic jezyk na Polski

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