by Tom Licence | Jun 1, 2019
Clay pipe bowls, moulded as a tulip (left) and an acorn (right). Note the smaller acorn which forms the part of the bowl called the ‘spur’ or ‘stud’. This was partly decorative and partly for knocking loose the congealed burnt tobacco. Kaolin...
by Tom Licence | Jun 16, 2018
Clay pipe moulded in the shape of a wicker fishing basket with a herring swimming in through a hole at the base, where the bowl joins the stem.
by Tom Licence | May 14, 2018
Two clay tobacco pipe, one embossed with buffalo horns and RAOB (Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes), the other with leaf decoration up the seam and a heart, wreathed, beneath the sun, on one side, and a hand, wreathed, beneath the sun, on the other. The first pipe...
by Tom Licence | May 13, 2018
Two clay tobacco pipes, possibly made by a Yarmouth pipemaker. One is decorated with fish scales going into a wicker basket. The other depicts fish or ripples swimming into a wicker basket (less crisply moulded). Designs of this sort may relate to the Yarmouth herring...
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
Mid-Victorian salt-glazed spring-moulded hunting jug, with the mouldings depicting Toby Belcher (holding a frothing jug and glass, with pipe on the table), a second man sitting on a barrel, head in hand (with a frothing jug and pipe on table), an oak tree, a windmill,...
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
Buffalo clay pipe, with the acronym RAOB (Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes) and a buffalo’s face, with evidence, in the form of burn-marks, that the pipe has been smoked.
by Tom Licence | Oct 16, 2016
Clay pipe with the acronym RAOB (Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes) and a buffalo face embossed.
by Tom Licence | Feb 26, 2016
‘Irish’ clay pipe bowl, made of kaolin, embossed with a harp.
by Tom Licence | Jan 17, 2015
Clay pipe bowl decorated with holly and the head of Father Christmas.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Clay pipe made in 1887 to commemorate Buffalo Bill’s performance to the queen on the occasion of her Golden Jubilee. Stem incised [… Q]ueens Buffalo Bill.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Clay pipe bowl moulded as the head of a maharajah or one of the three wise men from Matthew’s Gospel.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Clay pipe bowl moulded as the head of a Black African man. Novelty bowls were sometimes sold or given away at pubs whose names they represented. This one may have been smoked at a pub called ‘The Black’s Head’ or similar. (There is still one with...
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Pipe bowl showing the old draped bust of Queen Victoria, which appeared on coins from 1893.
by Tom Licence | Jan 4, 2015
Kaolin pipe bowl showing the old veiled bust of Queen Victoria, which appeared on coins in 1893.
