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Description: | A clay tobacco pipe bowl bearing the initials IS on the spur (also submitted from the same findspot were three plain stem fragments of probable 17th century date).Dr David Higgins comments:Fragment from the bowl a clay tobacco pipe with fluted decoration on the bowl sides. Fluted decoration became popular from the late 18th century onwards and this particular style with quite narrow and closely spaced flutes dates from around 1820-1880. This pipe had quite a short bowl with a plain lip above the flutes. The maker's initials IS are moulded on the spur of the pipe; the 'I' being commonly used to represent a 'J' at this period. This mark could refer to James Smith, who is recorded working at Eton, Buckinghamshire, from at least 1872-1903 (Oswald 1975, 161). James Smith was the son of the pipemaker Robert Smith, born on 25 January 1843 and baptised on 3 March 1843 at St George's, Camberwell, Southwark (Parish Register). He died at Eton in 1904, aged 60.
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