I have been looking at these pipes for a while. I like the lanyard and the screen. Before I always thought that the screen might be in case you had to drop the pipe while reeling in a fish, and the hot tobacco doesn't come out and burn a hole in your shirt or waders.
How is your pipe coming along? I have not had a Boswell's, but if it is as good as his tobacco then I doubt I have anything to worry about.