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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
Images
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