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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Staff at the 18th-century fort and fur-trading village on the Straits of Mackinac said a fragment of a white clay smoking pipe bowl was recently found in the cellar of the fort’s excavation site ...

BBC - A History of the World - Object : Clay smoking pipe from 18 or 19th CClay pipes were ubiquitous in the earlier centuries and can be seen in many photos of sailors prior to 1900. They would ...

Sites 'significant for the history of Hull' and artefacts, including this clay pipe bowl, have been unearthed by the team An 18th Century jail, a suspected World War Two bomb site and traces of a ...

Sites 'significant for the history of Hull' and artefacts, including this clay pipe bowl, have been unearthed by the team An 18th Century jail, a suspected World War Two bomb site and traces of a ...