2022.07.25 星期一 晴
【Monica】聖莫尼卡菸草商店聯名煙斗，石楠木製桌斗型彎式煙斗。
保持全新(百年老店已熄燈)的稀罕物，因年代久遠外觀已退色陳舊。
所以釋出前以手工斗工法工序整體大翻新完畢，賦予其"浴火重生"。
斗長 : 14.0， 斗高 : 5.4， 斗寬 : 3.8x3.0， 斗口 : 1.8公分。
屬中大斗，一斗菸草可享受50分鐘(視有無助燃網或斗主技術增減)。
煙道頭段3mm鑽孔，榫頭中段濾心處6mm設定，斗嘴末端~以2mm收尾。
斗身輕盈適合長時間叼斗不嘴酸，斗嘴彎曲弧度正確不致引起偏燒。
附上該菸草聯名煙斗資料和始末，與Tinder Box斗廠~~~~關係密切。
Santa Monica’s oldest flame,
The Tinder Box, dies out
When Santa Monica’s oldest tobacconist, Edward Kolpin Sr., died in April 2007, he had a wish. That his little shop on Wilshire Boulevard would continue to sell handcrafted pipes, high-end cigars and custom blended tobacco for ten more years.
When Kolpin’s daughter-in-law turns out the lights and locks the door one last time Monday, the nearly 90-year-old store will have fulfilled that promise.
“It will be hard,” Jeanette Kolpin said as she held back tears and pulled out some pamphlets from the Museum of Neon Art. “But we will be immortalized.”
On Friday, a construction crew used a crane to pull the old Tinder Box sign from its corner on Wilshire and Harvard St. It is now headed to Glendale where it will be repaired and restored and placed in the museum. The strip is perhaps a fitting resting place for what has been a symbol of Hollywood’s smoke-filled glamour since Ed began selling cigars to the stars in the 1920’s.
Over the years, loyal customers relished Ed’s stories of famous actresses and actors and their exploits. He claimed to have once been flashed by Marilyn Monroe herself and to have skinny dipped in the Taj Mahal. Icons from every generation have walked through the wooden doors and smelled the cedar inside the cigar room – from Clark Gable to Nicholas Cage to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The store opened in 1928. In 1973, the company began leasing its name and selling its product as a franchise, spreading the Tinder Box name all over the world. In 1977, Ed’s son told the New York Times that business began thriving after the Surgeon General’s warning that cigarette smoking was a health hazard. Suddenly, cigarette smokers turned to cigars and pipes to get their fix without inhaling and wean themselves off their daily pack.
“Our stores have never been affected by downturns in the economy,” Karl Kolpin reportedly told The Times. “People may lose their jobs, but they continue to smoke expensive cigars. The worse the Dow Jones becomes, the better our business.”
While there are still Tinder Box stores in about 18 states, the franchise has since been sold and five years ago Jeanette made the difficult decision to sell the property on Wilshire. She negotiated a special rate for the store for a five-year lease, which expired this month. The going rent in the neighborhood has since skyrocketed beyond what the store can afford.
“Things change and nothing lasts forever,” Jeanette said.
The Tinder Box doesn’t have a single employee who has worked there fewer than fifteen years. The shop’s manager, Leo Reyes, has been teaching customers about cigars and pipes since 1986. Once he gets going, he can rhapsodize about the craftsmanship behind hand-carving a pipe and the aroma of different tobaccos.
“As a kid, years ago, I remember someone smoking and it smelled like gingerbread,” Reyes said. “People have those kinds of memories of their uncle or their dad or grandfather smoking a pipe and they decide to give it a try. They get sentimental.”
“Everything has history so it becomes part of the ambiance of doing it.”
But while his customers have remained loyal, the base has not grown and trends in smoking have changed. The store never branched out to include new technology like e-cigarettes or vaporizers. Although they get a lot of calls requesting it, the store does not sell paraphernalia for smoking marijuana either.
“That wasn’t us. We wanted to stay pure in that sense,” Reyes said.
After they finish clearing out the store and complete the pile of paperwork that comes with ending a nearly century-old business, Reyes says he and Jeanette are looking into ways to continue the repair shop that fixes broken lighters, pipes and humidors.
“You know, the things that we do that other places don’t do anymore,” Reyes said.
Over the past few weeks, word spread that the shop was finally closing and customers began coming by to pick up mementos and say their farewells. Although their stock is already dwindling, Jeanette anticipates a busy day on Saturday when cigar and pipe smokers typically spend the afternoon inside the shop catching up with friends and enjoying their shared vice.
The stores late founder, Ed, smoked a pipe up until he turned 96 years old.
On Monday, the shop goes out like a light.
這支聯名煙斗極具歷史意義，
該菸草店以販售手工煙斗，高級雪茄、訂製菸草聞名。
是政商名流、演員、音樂家.....等出沒場所，
但該店並無斗廠，聯名斗應是委託.....
The Tinder Box 斗廠手工部門訂製的。
說起 The Tinder Box 斗廠更令人懷念，
老娘手頭的幾支 The Tinder Box 老古董煙斗...
一旦釋出.....幾乎是秒殺 !
這種菸草店(商)聯名煙斗在西方非常普遍，
大衛杜夫菸草商也是有聯名煙斗滴 !
此斗重翻新手工超細膩，
保證完勝一堆同級煙斗產品。
有桌斗功能，可自行穩穩站立桌面。
煙道鑽孔準確出風順暢，
可保抽斗品質愉悅。
【四千五百元整】極具歷史意義收藏價值 !
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PS.此斗已於2022.09.09售出!!!
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