Found several of this same pipe bowl, but rather may be from a few separate broken bowls....Se a few letters R L S and maybe an O. It seems that S may be the last letter if I am deciphering it all correctly. Shame to find so many S pieces and not enough to make out the whole word. Serif letters may indicate age but what could the word be....can I buy a vowel..lol Any ideas?
I'm thinking the first thing you should do is try to determine when your pipe fragments date from.
This might then lead you to a similar design and to a possible maker.
To me, all these look like are old Scrabble tiles.
Dave
Last edited by ANTIQUARIAN; Apr 05, 2021 at 05:58 AM.
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“I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
“Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.”
I'm thinking the first thing you should do is try to determine when your pipe fragments date from.
This might then lead you to a similar design and to a possible maker.
To me, all these look like are old Scrabble tiles.
Dave
The site dates from 1840 to 1880. Defintly pipe bowl fragments.
I dont see any ref to the size or thickness with a scale or other measurement...
Please provide a scale reference, but also, you can determine the radius of the circle from the sections, that will tell how big this was.. looking at the images provided, the diameter looks far too large for a clay pipe....if you proved a scaled top version with radius, that would help...
There is little slope to the sides to form a curved pipe bowl, and the thickness seems like this was far larger than a pipe bowl?
Images of the other side, it it glazed or coated?
Last edited by xaos; Apr 05, 2021 at 07:12 PM.
I got a dig bick...you that read wrong...you read that wrong too!
Your fragments are definitely letters to words around the top of the bowls.
I find a lot of stems, but I've never found a complete bowl in the farm fields.
Here's a fragment I found yesterday, thankfully there's enough information here for me to figure out what this is.
“I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.”
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
“Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.”
Your fragments are definitely letters to words around the top of the bowls.
I find a lot of stems, but I've never found a complete bowl in the farm fields.
Here's a fragment I found yesterday, thankfully there's enough information here for me to figure out what this is.
Queen Victoria's 50th Jubilee Commemoration.
Dave
Cool piece of history Dave... but this was for Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 60 years. She came to the throne in 1837.
I don't have any doubt that the OP's pieces are from pipe bowls, but tracking the lettering is going to be really difficult.
have you tried to see if any of the peices fit together?
......of course, but this may be a few pieces from multiple pipes, as there was a lot of smoking going on there.But to answer your question, yes I have tried and nothing matches.
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