trade pipe of a different color.

[GatorBoy]

It must be Pipe week.. I want a tee-shirt. I have found alot of trade pipes most were made before the 1840's and not the style that Point Pleasant made but have found only one like this. If anyone has any info on these please help me out..thanks. well..photo app. Just crashed. Will post soon

 

[GatorBoy]

real nice Tom thats the kind of elbow pipe I was talking about.

 

[GatorBoy]

thats alot of unbroken ones...good stuff

 

[kuger]

I have a Close friend ....Max Bell who is an expert on Face pipes,like your green one.I beleive that one is called the "Turk",and dates to the 1850's + or -.Max has an online article if I can find it

......I found it and cant get it to paste?If you Google "Clay Face Pipe)his is the PDF a few down "Collecting Face Pipes"

 

[GatorBoy]

Thanks so much

 

[GaRebel1861]

I have a Close friend ....Max Bell who is an expert on Face pipes,like your green one.I beleive that one is called the "Turk",and dates to the 1850's + or -.Max has an online article if I can find it

......I found it and cant get it to paste?If you Google "Clay Face Pipe)his is the PDF a few down "Collecting Face Pipes"

I looked at the "Collecting Face Pipes" you suggested and it was interesting. Thanks for posting that.

 

[tomclark]

BTW, the long length of the stems of some of these.....some people say it was to keep breaking off for some reason but that makes no sense. If you smoke tobacco in one of these, and I have, it gets clogged and is VERY hard to unclog. I believe they were long because of beards, no kidding. If you have a long or bushy beard it is hard to light a smaller stemmed pipe without possibly lighting your beard on fire. Pipes are smoked and relit, relit. I'll bet a lot of them were broken trying to unclog them. Back in the 1800's it was popular to have long, even extreme beards and moustaches. The smaller ones would have had a hollow reed or such stuck in the end, and they would be much easier to clean out/unclog. IMHOP boom.

 

[GatorBoy]

Nice Tom.. makes good sence. I've read that most only kept the same pipe for a week Mabey two. The kaolin ones that is. There must be alot of pipes out there.

 

[tomclark]

"I've read that most only kept the same pipe for a week maybe two"
Thanks, I've been thinkin that! I wouldn't be surprised if they did an analysis of the inside of broken stems with bowls, that signs of attempts to unclog would be seen.

 

[GaRebel1861]

BTW, the long length of the stems of some of these.....some people say it was to keep breaking off for some reason but that makes no sense. If you smoke tobacco in one of these, and I have, it gets clogged and is VERY hard to unclog. I believe they were long because of beards, no kidding. If you have a long or bushy beard it is hard to light a smaller stemmed pipe without possibly lighting your beard on fire. Pipes are smoked and relit, relit. I'll bet a lot of them were broken trying to unclog them. Back in the 1800's it was popular to have long, even extreme beards and moustaches. The smaller ones would have had a hollow reed or such stuck in the end, and they would be much easier to clean out/unclog. IMHOP boom.

I read what you said about why the stems were broken off. What I was told was that the stems were broken off in small increments so you had a clean pipe stem to smoke from back in the day perhaps when they were shared with other smokers. What you said on this post makes more sense to me. Thanks - I agree with you.

 

[GatorBoy]

Dang Tom nice gags

 

[BJS in Iowa]

Found this in the spring. I run hot and cold on whether it is man-made or natural. Took it to a show last weekend and many said they thought it was a crude hand made clay pie. There were a couple detractors, or at least skeptics, though. Have a look. No the best pictures, that's why I never posted before. I meant to take some better photos and never took the time.

It is, obviously, broken, if it is a pipe. I did find it at almost the same spot in the creek where I found the pottery shard the year before and the material looks of similar composition (clay and sand) but creek stained a different color. It is not magnetic. SE Iowa.

 

[NC field hunter]

"I've read that most only kept the same pipe for a week maybe two"
Thanks, I've been thinkin that! I wouldn't be surprised if they did an analysis of the inside of broken stems with bowls, that signs of attempts to unclog would be seen.

Tom is that you? For some reason, I picture people as their avatar. So, until now, you were a wise old cave man!!Lol nice catch, and nice to see that you are not crow-magnum man!

 

[GatorBoy]

That is a small one but it looks right to me.

 

[tomclark]

That's what she said.

 

[leprechaun]

Very nice pipes and stems GatorBoy.

 

[natchitoches]

great pipe

 

[GatorBoy]

Thank you Leprechaun