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Description: | Three Post Medieval clay tobacco pipes dating 1620 -1640. Each of the tobacco pipes have got a hole punched through the bowl and the stems are broken and the ends smoothed. These holes have been deliberately created after the tobacco pipes were made. The holes were created from the outside rather than internally. Presumably to suspend the modified tobacco pipe.Jacqui Pearce identified that the holes had been made after the pipes had been manufactured and smoked. Holes in the bowls would not have helped the smoking process so it suggests these pipes had a function outside of smoking.Jacqui wonders if the holes were to enable to pipes to be threaded onto something possibly like the German 'Collar of shame'. In Germany it was illegal to make, sell or smoke pipes that hadn't come through the Emperor's approved sources. If you were caught doing this then you were made to wear the 'Collar of shame' which included a threaded tobacco pipe bowl amongst other objects. Identification by Jacqui Pearce, Museum of London Archaeology Specialist Services, Medieval pottery specialist.Dimensions: total weight: 35.14g
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