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Description: | Cast lead, or lead alloy, pipe tamper decorated with a bawdy design on one side. The design consists of two standing human figures, one male the other female, engaged in an act of sexual union whilst leaning against a tree for support. To accommodate her partner the female has raised her left leg which consequently protrudes horizontally outside the frame of the design provided by the back of the tamper. An excellent example of the type. Length 66mm, width 30mm, maximum thickness 10mm. Pipe tampers were used to compress tobacco in the bowl of a pipe and so ensure that it would burn evenly. They were manufactured from a variety of metals as well as wood and bone. The earliest British pipe tampers date to the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries although examples decorated with bawdy designs, such as this one, tend to date to the second half of the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1750
1850 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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