Pipes were adapted for European tastes using European materials, and in England the most popular material for pipes between 1600 and 1900 was clay. Shapes and styles varied over the years, but the ...

Cavers discover a pristine cobalt mineshaft at Alderley Edge that has been undisturbed since 1810 – containing clay pipes, leather shoes and bowls left behind by miners A cobalt mine shaft that ...

Description Although the late nineteenth century was the heyday of political pipes, this undated full bust clay pipe bowl of William Jennings Bryan was probably made for the election of 1908, Bryan’s ...

In addition, I found 3 other pipe bowls, with hand carvings, one with a stamp reading Garibaldi, after the Italian President credited with uniting Sicily with mainland Italy in the 1860s.

Object Details Maker Undetermined artist Label Text This ceramic pipe bowl depicts a seated male figure with emblems of high rank and wealth, which is appropriate because such a pipe would have been ...

Terra-cotta tobacco pipes similar in style and decoration to English white clay pipes are occasionally recovered from 17th century European sites in the Tidewater colonies of Maryland and Virginia.