The report from the contest you can see in the reports section.

José Joaquín Herrera V. – President of Circulo de la Pipa Mexico sent us an information about Christmass meeting.

Here you have this letter:

Dear Friends,

I remind you of traditional Christmas meeting (a pipe smoking contest and a dinner) which will take place next Friday, 8th of December, in 'El otro lugar de la Mancha' restaurant, Esopo no. 11, Col. Polanco.

Christmass Contest in slow pipe smoking

Contest tobacco:  Borkum Riff Vanilla Cavendish (dark Kentucky and Burley mixture)

You can use your own pipe in the contest (the condition is that this pipe should have been used in the CIPC contest before) and the participation fee is 30 Pesos (circa US Dollars 3).

You can get a brand new contest pipe made especially for the club by Nprma de Mexico. The paritcipation fee is 200 Pesos (circa US Dollars 20) respectively.

There will be great prizes and a extraordinary trophy for the winner.

Best regards,

José Joaquín Herrera V.

Original letter from José you can find in the 'more' part of this message.

Pierre Pams – Liverpool (Mexican superstore network) director is a pipe-smoker and a great pipe-collector. His huge collection of pipes is exposed in his huge condominium. He think to move his collection to a better place for exposition and found a pipe museum. Pierre is a excellent popularizer on smoking-pipes thema.

I went to Mexico on invitation of President Circulo de la Pipa Mexico José Joaquín Herrera and his wife Dulce. We know each other very well for couple of years and finaly it happened that I could see that beautiful and so different, from Polish point of view, country.

Many of us, pipe-smokers, know Ben Rapaport very well. For those, who do not know him, Ben have a mail-order book business that offers the pipe smoker the largest inventory of English and foreign-language books in the world. He can advise smokers and colllectors of those books that best serve their intellectual curiosity.
Ben publish quarterly newsletter in Word document format. If you are interested in it or have questions to Ben just click his picture below to send him an e-mail.

On Tuesday, October 24th, Henryk Handkamer – the oldest member of Pipe Collectors Club in Poznan made his 80th birthday for club members.

Here you have Baltic Cup & Novotel Cup broshure in pdf (1,5 MB).
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Reports and pictures from this event you can find also:

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