I'm going as Indiana Jones for Halloween, and I got to thinking that there is a surprising lack of pipes in the Indy films. The era is entirely right for widespread pipe-smoking, at least in the US and Europe. It is during WW2, so cigarettes are on the upswing, but even so--an archaeology professor at "Not-Yale" university is the model pipe-man.

I have in my mind that Indy would probably smoke a fairly simple pipe of no special provenance, a bent billiard or straight pot. Maybe also, rarely, a well-loved figural meer from some visit to Asia Minor.

But what tobacco would he smoke?

University Flake?

Or possibly something Oriental?

His persona "shouts" cigars to me. But a skull or skull in claw meerschaum might fit into his profession?

Natch

Escudo. I don't know why really lol

I imagine University flake in a Peterson, maybe in a billiard, or as polar explorer and geologist Alfred Wegener who died in a snowstorm on Greenland, a Peterson system as I've seen in other photos in geology books!!

Or, as in this photo, a real german pocelain pipe!



I mean, the guy discovered continental drift and got laughed at until many years after his death!

Indy was not only an archeologist,butalso a historian, so he also knew alot of customs and languages. I believe much like the modern smoker he would have several pipes from various locations and the same with tobacco. However being the practical man he is I think an english blend in a bulldog while in the field and while at home relaxing a antique pipe from the orient with a more exotic blend

C&D Professor?

I think he'd drink 'the wine of the country' and tend to smoke local as well. I see his father as a heavy Latakia smoker, so Indy would tend towards whatever else was available just to avoid his father's tobacco.

Having said all that, I still can see him with a straight billiard and an oriental-based tobacco

Condor in a Bulldog Nosewarmer.

Some very scholarly responses, gentlemen... keep 'em coming!

Hmmm, I absolutely don't see latakia as being his thing, yet I can defiitely see orientals and turkish in the blend.

U Flake makes us think of Indiana Jones because he was a professor. Still, his true passion as we know was out of the classroom and across the world, so Bald Headed Teacher (also latakia) isn't right.

I bet he mixes his own blends, or maybe something from McClellands Grand orientals.

A professor in a United States college at that time would have almost certainly been smoking Revelation, Blue Boar, Edgeworth or some similar burley mixture (which were not consider "drugstore blends" at the time as opposed to "premium" or boutique blends). I could also, however, imagine him developing a taste for the Balkan Sobranie, as it was almost universally available across the globe (perhaps also Dunhill blends).
I imagine he might reach something a bit fancier occasionally, but I don't believe the palates of contemporary pipe smokers bore any resemblance to those of yesteryear. I'd also add that I think Indy's character would have shied away from anything he considered pretentious, at least in his everyday life.

I see him having his own blend processed by a tobacconist using his own recipe. With all his contacts around the globe I'm sure he could have any type of exotic tobacco shipped to him from any region, and a suitable blend worked up. The blending houses at that time I imagine were very small with a limited clientele, ,,,,so with both Indy and his father smoking up a storm the poor tobacconist would be putting in some big overtime in an effort to " Keep up with the Joneses"