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- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- metal, silver
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0023
- Description
- Cigar shaped, sterling silver humidor that is filled with absorbent material which when soaked with water acts as the humidifying agent. This would have been carried in a cigar case to maintian the cigars. This piece bears the Birks Sterling mark.
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- Title
- Humidor
- Date
- 1910 – 1940
- Material
- metal, silver
- Dimensions
- 11.5 cm
- Description
- Cigar shaped, sterling silver humidor that is filled with absorbent material which when soaked with water acts as the humidifying agent. This would have been carried in a cigar case to maintian the cigars. This piece bears the Birks Sterling mark.
- Subject
- smoking
- households
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0023
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- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- wood; glass
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0126
- Description
- A cylindrical wooden humidor, lined with glass, and topped with a rounded screw-on domed wooden lid. There is a 4 cm split in the wood rim extending downwards. The lid split and dose not fasten properly.
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- Title
- Humidor
- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- wood; glass
- Dimensions
- 10.0 cm
- Description
- A cylindrical wooden humidor, lined with glass, and topped with a rounded screw-on domed wooden lid. There is a 4 cm split in the wood rim extending downwards. The lid split and dose not fasten properly.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 102.04.0126
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- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0089
- Description
- A smooth, straight sided pipe bowl with the shank at a right angle to the bowl. The shank joins a separate black stem. The bowl is marked “Made in England” and with “inner tube 170” and “Patent 17365/20”.
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- Title
- Pipe
- Date
- 1945 – 1955
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 3.8 x 2.8 x 16.0 cm
- Description
- A smooth, straight sided pipe bowl with the shank at a right angle to the bowl. The shank joins a separate black stem. The bowl is marked “Made in England” and with “inner tube 170” and “Patent 17365/20”.
- Subject
- households
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Pearl Evelyn Moore, Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0089
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- Date
- 1870 – 1880
- Material
- metal; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0253 a-c
- Description
- Three tobacco pipes (kiseru) which consist of tiny brass bowls with elongated extensions which connect to bamboo stems which connect to brass mouthpieces which are extruded and come to a small bore. (a) has Japanese calligraphic ideogram under bowl and mouthpiece, no other decoration. (b) has deco…
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- Title
- Pipe
- Date
- 1870 – 1880
- Material
- metal; wood
- Dimensions
- 1.6 x 1.0 x 16.5 cm
- Description
- Three tobacco pipes (kiseru) which consist of tiny brass bowls with elongated extensions which connect to bamboo stems which connect to brass mouthpieces which are extruded and come to a small bore. (a) has Japanese calligraphic ideogram under bowl and mouthpiece, no other decoration. (b) has decorations that look like an old man of the sea, and (c) has floral decorations on bowl and mouthpiece.
- Subject
- households
- Japanese
- Edward S. Morse
- pastime
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0253 a-c
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- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- wood
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0254
- Description
- A simple handmade pipe made from a burl and branch, the burl hollowed out and the stem bored to reach the burl hollow, the mouth piece whittled down to form. A residue of orange makes it look as though it might have been painted at one time. Mouthpiece is scorched but bowl is not.
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- Title
- Pipe
- Date
- 1920 – 1950
- Material
- wood
- Dimensions
- 3.5 x 4.5 x 11.0 cm
- Description
- A simple handmade pipe made from a burl and branch, the burl hollowed out and the stem bored to reach the burl hollow, the mouth piece whittled down to form. A residue of orange makes it look as though it might have been painted at one time. Mouthpiece is scorched but bowl is not.
- Subject
- households
- Indigenous
- pastime
- smoking
- ceremonial
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0254
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- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- mineral; skin; fibre; wood; horn
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0255
- Description
- A creamy coloured meerschaum pipe bowl (a) in a leather case (c) lined with white satin and deep burgundy velvet and hinged and clasped, with a stem (b) of straight willow or hickory which has been reamed to a screw bore at one end and finished with a piece of horn as the mouthpiece at the other. T…
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- Title
- Pipe
- Date
- 1850 – 1900
- Material
- mineral; skin; fibre; wood; horn
- Dimensions
- 11.5 x 6.5 x 9.5 cm
- Description
- A creamy coloured meerschaum pipe bowl (a) in a leather case (c) lined with white satin and deep burgundy velvet and hinged and clasped, with a stem (b) of straight willow or hickory which has been reamed to a screw bore at one end and finished with a piece of horn as the mouthpiece at the other. There is a staple in the stem.
- Subject
- households
- pastime
- smoking
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 103.08.0255
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