Sherlock Holmes and other Well Known Pipe Smokers
Sherlock Holmes and other Well Known Pipe Smokers
...What pipes did they smoke? I think Holmes smoked a calabash meershaum, but the others are beyond me:
Holmes:
Einstein:
Twain:
Watson:
And so on. This is purely for entertainment, of course.
Holmes:
Einstein:
Twain:
Watson:
And so on. This is purely for entertainment, of course.
Well, the Sherlock Holmes Museum (221b Baker St., London, incidentally) has "his" calabash...as well as a couple of others. I don't know how to post pictures here, but they've got them.
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/s ... revhp.html (Mark Twain/Samuel Clements - he also was a cigar smoker)
Holmes Museum Store: https://www.ssl1.fptoday.com/sherlock-h ... view1.html
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/railton/s ... revhp.html (Mark Twain/Samuel Clements - he also was a cigar smoker)
Holmes Museum Store: https://www.ssl1.fptoday.com/sherlock-h ... view1.html
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote a calabash into the stories of Holmes. The calabash was popularized by William Gillette, an actor of the day who portrayed Holmes in the theater.
Holmes smoked a varitey of pipes, including briar and cherrywood, but his go to pipe was his old and oily clay.
Other famous pipe smokers and their pipes (where I think I know), not already mentioned
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Herman Melville (meerschaum, and probably others)
President Gerald Ford
Jerry Lee Lewis (he likes various type pipes)
Bing Crosby (straight, slender billiard is what he is famous for)
Sir Walter Raleigh (clay)
Mr. Wilson (from Dennis the Menace - usually a bent billiard)
Norman Rockwell (straight billiard is what I've seen mostly)
Santa Claus (clay, bent billiards)
Frosty the Snowman (corncob)
Popeye (jack of all trades pipe)
General Douglas McArthur (most commonly pictured with the corncob)
Also, while Twain smoked a lot of pipes, including Peterson's, he would buy corncobs by the dozen.
Holmes smoked a varitey of pipes, including briar and cherrywood, but his go to pipe was his old and oily clay.
Other famous pipe smokers and their pipes (where I think I know), not already mentioned
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Herman Melville (meerschaum, and probably others)
President Gerald Ford
Jerry Lee Lewis (he likes various type pipes)
Bing Crosby (straight, slender billiard is what he is famous for)
Sir Walter Raleigh (clay)
Mr. Wilson (from Dennis the Menace - usually a bent billiard)
Norman Rockwell (straight billiard is what I've seen mostly)
Santa Claus (clay, bent billiards)
Frosty the Snowman (corncob)
Popeye (jack of all trades pipe)
General Douglas McArthur (most commonly pictured with the corncob)
Also, while Twain smoked a lot of pipes, including Peterson's, he would buy corncobs by the dozen.
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Kurt,
If you find this pic, please forward it to me. I would love to see it. I am a ginormous SRV fan!
If you find this pic, please forward it to me. I would love to see it. I am a ginormous SRV fan!
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"You should never fight, but if you have to fight...fight dirty. Kick 'em in the groin, throw a rock at 'em"
www.quinnpipes.com
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Here we go, SRV with a pipe from live in Japan in 1985.
http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/srv/live ... an-vcd.htm
go to the bottom of the page, the next to the last picture he has a pipe in his mouth.
http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/srv/live ... an-vcd.htm
go to the bottom of the page, the next to the last picture he has a pipe in his mouth.
-Bryan
"You should never fight, but if you have to fight...fight dirty. Kick 'em in the groin, throw a rock at 'em"
www.quinnpipes.com
"You should never fight, but if you have to fight...fight dirty. Kick 'em in the groin, throw a rock at 'em"
www.quinnpipes.com
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Is it just me, or does that really look like a GBD Rhodesian? The pic I saw of him he was smoking smothing that looked like a Petersen system bent. If I recall, Terry Davey had the pic I'm speaking of up on his site. I'll ask him if he still has it around.achduliebe wrote:Here we go, SRV with a pipe from live in Japan in 1985.
http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/srv/live ... an-vcd.htm