The axe head beach gives again!

[brsmith12]

Went back to the beach where I picked up the stone axe yesterday to detect and once again pick up a non metal find. It's definitely a clay pipe that was glazed at one time. It has a seem in the middle not sure if it's turn of the century or later. Any opinions?




















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[Chrystal]

Sweet find!!! Where can you find those? I live in oklahoma but dont know where to look!!!

 

[ryaan21]

My buddy found this one, I think it was late 1800/early 1900's if I remember correctly. Great find!

 

[leprechaun]

Very nice find.

 

[birdman]

Awesome!!! I want one.

 

[bblaha]

That looks like a trade pipe that would've been given to native Americans

 

[brsmith12]

That looks like a trade pipe that would've been given to native Americans

It was on the same beach where I found a stone axe could it be colonial or later?

 

[bblaha]

I'd say colonial, I'm no expert on this though, gator boy and grim reaper are the go to guys for that

 

[Indian Steve]

Howdy, Both pipes shown were made in Mogadore Ohio in the late 1800s. The first one was the most popular type made there. I was digging the pottery dumps there in the late 1960s and early 70s. When we moved to North Carolina in 1971, i brought over 5,000 of the first type with me. I sold all of them at local flea markets and made trips back to Ohio to dig more. On one trip me and a friend dug a little over 3,000 in 3 days. I have around 60 different types from Mogadore and around 170 different types of clay pipes. steve

 

[Indian Steve]

Some of the first type had tobacco company names on the sides of the bowl and on the stem. Some names were Red Letter, Catlins, Finzer and Catlins O.S. The tobacco companies would actually put them in bags of tobacco to sell. You could buy bamboo stems by the box or cut your own. When the stem got dirty, you threw it out and stuck a new one in.

 

[bblaha]

How far away is that from Cincinnati

 

[Indian Steve]

Mogadore is next to Akron. They made pipes at Point Pleasant, Ohio too. They were earlier and made some really cool face pipes. Are you in Cincinnatti?

 

[bblaha]

Yes I am and I found a trade pipe in the creek I hunt for arrowheads in now i want to find more, theyre like art! digging pipes like that sounds like a lot of fun

 

[brsmith12]

The spot I found this pipe in was on a river shore that branches off of the Chesapeake bay. I'm sure many more will start popping up

 

[bblaha]

I'm gonna do some research on a spot around where I live that I can look for pipes, that's pretty cool.

 

[bblaha]

I'm going to the location in point pleasant tomorow, good way to spend my last day of summer vacation

 

[Indian Steve]

Back in the 70s and early 80s digging pipes was lots of fun and easy cash. Mogadore had 29 potteries in the 1800s including the one that made pipes. They were very quality concious and threw out anything with the slightest flaw. The pipe factory had a 70% to 80% failure rate, mostly during the firing. I also dug up jugs,crocks, pie plates, pitchers, and minatures.Biggest crock that i dug was 80 gallons and it was too big to move so i left it there. They used reject pottery for "fill dirt" all over the area. One huge Victorian house in town was on a mound of pottery with a topping of dirt. The house didn't have gutters and after the rains, we would crawl between the bushes and the house and pick up pipes out of the drip line. Even the town cemetary was partially on top of pottery. My neighbor was a grave digger and i would go pick pipes out of graves. The graveyard was the only place that i ever found the Tulip pipe. After we moved to Greensboro in 1971, i would go to the flea markets in a 1937 Plymouth coupe with the truck full of pipes in egg cartons. I was selling them for 50 cent each or $5 a dozen. AAAAHHHHH! The good old days! Good luck in your hunting.steve