As I sat down at my desk this morning to write this article, something caused me to take stock of everything on it. A computer, of course, reading glasses, assorted labels and stationery, a couple ...

There pipes originate from Germany. One of the pipes were made in 1898, the other in 1906. The contributor's wife is German and they adopted a German Prisoner of War as a grandfather, called Walter.

It turns out that the history of pipe smoking goes back to ancient times and beyond. Pipes made of copper were among the afterlife accessories found in Egyptian tombs from as early as 2000 B.C ...