Meer carving

Bought a REALLY cheap meerschaum pipe on eBay.

It is a clumsy rendition of a hand holding a rose, but the clumsiness of the execution leaves a lot of raw material left to try and improve!
I intended to make the petals of the rose thinner and more curled and even try and improve on the fingers and wrist of the hand. The sleeve leaves room to carve out a bracelet or even a watch.
Another project awaiting fulfilment...

Last Stanwell - from Denmark

As Stanwell decided to move their factory to Italy in 2010, I decided to buy a "pre-transition" pipe before that. It came last week and I have been holding of lighting it up until I decided what to smoke in it.
Today I made my mind up to dedicate this Featherweight 242 Pot to Rattray's Red Raparree, and opened a very old tin of said weed.