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Description: | An incomplete clay pipe of early modern date (1805-32), missing most of the stem (old break) and with some damage to the bowl at its mouth to one side only (recent-ish break). The heel is missing (recent-ish break).The casting seam is clearly visible. To the outside of the bowl it is flanked alternately by moulded ears of corn and V-shaped ribs. Beyond the ears of corn three pellets extend linearly, where there is room and the space is not taken up with other decoration on the bowl. To the insde of the bow the casting seam is flanked by two joining halves of a lozenge around a central moulded ring with radiating lines, possibly imitating the sun. The two lower outlines of the lozenge are slightly wider than those above and decorated with transverse ribs. Instead of the lower and upper edges joiing, both extend a little way beyond.The complete side of the bowl has a moulded rim and depicts three towers in an inverted-V formation, with a six-pointed mullet below the central tower and a raised inverted-V below. This has ribbed edges and a central ribbed inverted-V. Below is an apparent saltire cross with one bar much wider than the other. The stem to this half of the clay pipe is decorated with alternating pairs of leaves (three) and V-shapes with curled over ends (two) preceding the letters GO before the break.The damaged side of the bowl features at the centre an inverted and raised T-shape, possibly a hammer or implement of some kind. Below is a grouping of motifs crossing one another - a short diagonal raised bar with transverse ribs, a narrow rib vertically and equidistant in the spaces either side a raised pellet and a leaf-shape. Around the break a curving rib extends with bifurcated end, cloe to the outside of the bowl. Above the upper edge of the lozenge are two six-pointed mullets. The stem to this half of the clay pipe is decorated as the other side, but after the letters AM which are at the break (the A is incomplete and consist of one diagonal stroke only).The clay pipe measures 54.4mm in incomplete length, 19.8mm in width and stands 35.8mm in height. The bowl measures 20.2x21.1mm (internal 16.2x16.9mm). The clay pipe weighs 9.26g.David Higgins comments:A damaged pipe bowl and part of the stem, with relief moulded decoration and part of the maker's name surviving. The bowl is decorated with Masonic symbols, which were very popular motifs on English pipes during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This example has a style and arrangement of motifs that is typical of London and the south coast, and the damaged top of the right hand side would have included seven stars and a moon originally. The heel (which would have carried the maker's initials) has been broken off from beneath the bowl. The first part of the stem is decorated with a relief moulded spray of foliage in a style that is typical of the early nineteenth century and the very end of some lettering that would have comprised the maker's surname and place of work (GO./ /.AM). This bowl can be matched with a complete example illustrated by Fox and Hall (1979, Fig 17.115), which shows that the heel would have originally have been marked IG and the full lettering on the stem would have read GOODALL / FAREHAM. This pipe can be attributed to either one of the John Goodalls (I or II; recorded working 1805-31) or James Goodall (recorded working 1829-1832), all of Fareham (Fox & Hall 1979, 21). The pipe was found about 15 miles to the north of Fareham, which is within the 15-20 mile radius from the place of manufacture that is a typical distribution area for inland pipes at this period.Reference: Fox, R. T., and Hall, R. B., 1979 The Clay Tobacco Pipes of the Portsmouth Harbour Region 1680-1932, privately published, 56pp.
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