I was in my Local last Saturday evening and on returning to my table after getting another pint, I found this thing planted there! I thought at first it was a giant German snuff-box (see one of mine behind the F&F tube). Does anyone know what it is? Clue, Pieter may know!

Looks like Arthur’s backside to me Oh, you mean a bit further down

Isn’t it something that converts an herb to attitude adjustments?

@ ermtony:- LOL!

hash pipe

Snuff Head, did you keep it? Did you examine it at all? Did someone come back for it? I like a good mystery, but I need more info to solve the case.

Some type of animal call?

It does look like some kind of pipe, too. What is that knob thing on the right side of it? It sure does appear to be old and worn. The chain kind of looks rusty.

I don’t think its a chain, but a braided leather lanyard.

I don’t know…the lanyard 's got a shine to it like metal…what animal would John call besides a bar maid? :?

This pic looks like Paradise with some kind of weird wooden thing in it!

It’s the worlds lamest gun. Someones trying to frame you man.

isn’t that one of those noise makers that people spin around by the little knob on new years eve? But one thats from the stone age.

PremiumParrots, LOL I think we call them clappers. Well it was put there while my back was turned by Richard, a pub regular. He’s one of our local snuff takers, and a mutual friend of ermtony and myself. It’s a smokers pipe, the bobbin shaped thing is the mouthpiece and at the other end is bowl. You would have to smoke by bending over it and placing the burning end to the port or starboard of you mouth. What smoking mixture you put in it I don’t know, but Richard says the pipe is African. So bob could be correct, in his first post.

If you unplugged that hole on the back, u could pull smoke from there and use that middle hole as a “carb”, sort of like a bong. Maybe that was the original idea?

Now that would make sense.

A dang caveman bong!?! Here, I thought it was something rare.

A fella can get quite creative needing a pipe, but I wouldn’t know anything about that, just heard…

what tin of F&T is that in the picture? Macouba?

@ giaach Yes, I think so, not mine. I think it was Richards. We all share our snuff and it was late on in the evening…

I wish my buddies sat around and enjoyed a nice snuff. They have the proper beer down, maybe it’s time to introduce them. Telling people to sniff something never seems to go over very well…

Yeah, that looks kind of like what’s called a dugout pipe. I’ve never meet anyone who uses them for anything but drugs, but I mean somebody’s buying all those glass pipes that are for “tobacco use only” from sketchy corner stores, so who knows? I imagine if the guy who owned it was smoking pot out of it, he wouldn’t have just left it on a countertop in a room full of strangers.

I’ve never seen anything like that. If it is indeed a smoking pipe, it’s still unused because there are no burn marks around the “bowl”. Also it seems as if it’s made out of ordinary wood which will catch fire when the tobacco is lit. I would really love to have it in my hand, might be some great idea to start making replicas. Todays youth will buy anything out of the ordinary, so I can perhaps make a lot of money selling it.

It has been used Pieter, there are burn marks. We may know more about it tomorrow as he said he would bring it in again to show ermtony.

Well in parts of africa people use pipes like that for tobacco and weed. Often the same pipe. Before anyone cries heresy the type of tobacco usaly smoked out of pipes like that is incredibly harsh in flavor and in sensation. Often such pipes are hand made by the owner. Often both the tobacco and weed are traded for. Yes it’s usaly tribesmen that smoke such pipes. Now it’s time to do more research and find out what parts of Africa this is the practice.

Oh yeah and the proper way to smoke it is to make a chamber with your hand put the nub into the bottom part of your cupped hands while smoking out of the upper opening between your thumbs. You lite the sucker with a piece of coal from a fire. Who else is currently thinking f… civilization and it’s luxuries?

oh and the one hole that’s been drilled and pluged is because how else are you going to drill a hole to the other hole without a bendy drill.

@bob True engineering genius!

Thanks bob, that’s very interesting. I’ll just snuff, lol

At a guess it is a very simple calculating machine for those whose level of numeracy is limited to the concept of 1 and 2. The user has removed one toggle in order to calculate that 2 toggles -1 toggle =1 toggle. It comes with a handy carrying cord for the busy executive and is cheap on batteries.

I use one of those to balance my checkbook, most days I just leave both nobs off and drill holes in it.

@ PhilipS, I think you mean, it’s the first iPhone!!!

Looks like some sort of sex device to me. Chains and all. Fischtix can probably tell you more about it tho. just sayin

Of course; its a butt plug. Don’t use 'em myself I hasten to add but the chains are clearly to stop, err…loss?

You’re right PP…the proper name is “The Smack My Beeotch Up” Apparently the beads are missing from this model, so only the nub can be inserted into the orafice of choice. The device is then given a hearty spin, and once the correct amount of RPM’s are reached, say 150,000 or so a distinctive “Clang, Thwap, Thwap, Thwap” noise is heard. This is usually as far as i get due to the fact that the Police are called and I’m hauled off to the joint to try to prevent said device from being used on me. But, thanks for dredging up such wonderful memories ole pal o’ mine!!

Hitler’s SS troops used to carry a Luger pistol in a wooden “holster”. The gun could be attached to the holster to form a mini rifle. The “wooden thing” is the bottom part (barrel) of such a holster. Some African native must have picked it up in the desert and converted it to a smoking pipe.