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Western Europe, Germany & France, Black Forest region, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE; United States, Ohio, ca. 19th century CE. East Asia, China, ca. 19th to early 20th century CE. A collection of 3 smoking pipes made from wood, brass, stoneware, and jadeite! The Black Forest pipe has a cylinder bowl with the bark still attached, a cherrywood stem with bark, and a flexible cord neck with a polished wood mouthpiece. The smallest is a stoneware bowl, mold-made with a ribbed surface, and a simple reed stem, likely from the Ohio Akron company. The longest is an ornate Chinese piece, with a polished jadeite mouthpiece, a straight brass stem with faint vine motifs, and a wooden bowl with brass rims, perhaps for tobacco or opium. Size of brass pipe: 14.5" L x 4.5" W (36.8 cm x 11.4 cm)

Provenance: private Miami, Florida, USA collection; ex-Artemis Gallery; ex-private Bishop Family Trust collection, the Trust of the late Bill Bishop, a noted antiquarian with shops in Scottsdale, Arizona and Allenspark, Colorado, USA, acquired before 2010

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  • Condition: Use related wear to cherrywood pipe, fraying to cord on mouth piece area. Abrasion to wood bowl and residue inside.

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