BALTIC CUP 2006 and NOVOTEL CUP 2006 – International contest in slow pipe smoking – will take place in Novotel Centrum hotel in Poznan, Poland on 2nd of September 2006.

II Pipe, Tobacco and Paraphernalia Show
I Collectors Meeting and Show

Main sponsor of the contest: Zbigniew Bednarczyk – pipemaker form Przemysl.
Contest pipe of his design will be first time presented in the competition day. Brand name is WINCENT.
Contest tobacco made SYNJECO form Switzerland. Specjal limited edition called BALTIC MIXTURE is available – buy and taste it before contest (for registered participants only).

Detailed information nad registration module you will find in www.pipeworldcup.com    You have possibility to register yourself and accompanying person there. You can pay in shop in section Varia.

Hurry! Number of participants is limited by number of contest pipes. We can host 100 participants only!!!

Zbyszek Bednarczyk – pipe maker from Przemysl is also talented painter and sculptor. He prepared Exhibition of his oils on canvas as an accompanying event of the Pipe Admiration Day in Przemysl. All his works hang on trees nearby the Townhall.

INVITATION
16th – 17th September 2006
Bolonia, Italy
Green Park hotel, Congressi Quarto Inferiore



More info and table reservation:  www.smokestyle.it

INVITATION
20th – 22th April 2007

Pipe-makers Exhibition.
V International Slow Smoke Competition (21th April, 4 p.m.)


more info: +39 721 780746 lub sviluppoeconomico@comune.cagli.ps.it

INVITATION
Date: 29 September – 1 October 2006
Place: Holiday Inn Select – Koger South Conference Center
10800 Midlothian Tnpk, Richmond, Virginia, USA
Phone: 1-804-379-3800 (Mention C.O.R.P.S. for sapecjal room rates)

The American Pipe – American pipes, pipemakers and tobaccos. Sample of Tabacconists' Great Blends. Saturday night – Bourbon tasting from Buffalo Trace Distillery!

More info:  www.corpipesmokers.org

This year Chicago Pipe Show was dedicated to Tom Dunn – publisher of Pipesmokers Ephemeris, died December 11, 2005.

Zbigniew Bednarczyk – one of the best pipe-makers from Poland – prepared wonderful autographs especially for the Chicago Pipe Show.

John J. Adler informs us about auction of pipes at Christie's coming.



Name of the sale: The Fine Art of Smoking
Sale date and time: May 23th 2006, 10.30 a.m.
Place: South Kensington, Great Britain
According to John there will be following objects auctioning:
• remains of Dunhill collection
• large collection of meerschaums from a Japanese collector.

More details soon.

Prosec – a small town near Pardubice in Czech Republic. In this town 600 pipe-makers worked in a pipe factory before 2nd World War. Now, we can meet Pavel – master pipe-maker, only.

Tu mozesz zmienic jezyk na Polski

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