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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.