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Description: | The bowl of a clay tobacco pipe.David Higgins comments: This is an interesting pipe since I have not seen this particular design before. It clearly belongs to a popular late 19th century genre of pipes depicting sporting themes, in this case cricket. The motif on this example is almost set out in a heraldic fashion, with crossed bats in front of the stumps and a ball in the centre. The bowl appear to have been of a spurless form, very popular at this period and it would have been a short-stemmed or 'cutty' type of pipe, about 5-6 inches long overall. The style of the bowl and the decoration suggest that this example is most likely to date from around 1880-1920. It would almost certainly have been made by one of the many manufacturers operating in and around London at this period.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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