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Post by RickB on Jul 13, 2020 10:33:17 GMT -5
Picked up five old clay pipes to add to my collection. Planning on putting some together in a shadow box. Got them at the flea market Saturday from a bottle digger/artifact hunter for $2. each.  |
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Post by miket on Jul 13, 2020 10:50:09 GMT -5
Very cool!
I know nothing about them, however- how old are those?
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Post by RickB on Jul 13, 2020 11:13:12 GMT -5
Haven't looked them up yet miket. Here's a little reference. Have many more with various styles and types of clay used. In the 1960's I found some white kaolin trade pipes along with broken pipe stems, all spread out in a field full of arrowheads and pottery. The pipes found around here in SC date to shortly after the time of contact with the native americans into the early part of the twentieth century. www.peachstatearchaeologicalsociety.org/index.php/12-pipes/157-kaolin-clay-trade-pipes |
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Post by miket on Jul 13, 2020 12:01:48 GMT -5
Haven't looked them up yet miket . Here's a little reference. Have many more with various styles and types of clay used. In the 1960's I found some white kaolin trade pipes along with broken pipe stems, all spread out in a field full of arrowheads and pottery. The pipes found around here in SC date to the time of contact with the native americans into the early part of the twentieth century. www.peachstatearchaeologicalsociety.org/index.php/12-pipes/157-kaolin-clay-trade-pipesNice article, thanks. It should be interesting for you, looking them up. |
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Post by agatemaggot on Nov 29, 2020 0:19:57 GMT -5
You might want to check out a U_Tube feed on mud larking the Thames river by Nicole White I believe . She has a monster clay pipe collection she has picked up on the fore shore. She has some really fancy and elaborate pipes she has found !
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Post by RickB on Nov 29, 2020 6:55:54 GMT -5
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Post by jasoninsd on Nov 29, 2020 11:32:09 GMT -5
Thanks for posting this! It was a fun little video!  At the 2:00 mark, the pipe she found which she couldn't identify the symbol - it's a Masonic square and compass symbol on the bowl... Quite amazing the amount of pipes she is finding! |
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Post by RickB on Nov 29, 2020 11:58:31 GMT -5
jasoninsd I find myself looking at the rocks and pebbles in the video for agates.
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Post by lookatthat on Nov 29, 2020 15:41:05 GMT -5
The meerscham pipes (white) were very popular during the Civil War.
I don't know anything about the others.
I found part of a meerscham pipe when they dug a water line here. Always fun stuff.
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Post by agatemaggot on Nov 29, 2020 20:38:44 GMT -5
I think she said she has been Mudlarkin for 15 years now, I imagine over a period of 200 years plus a lot of sailors were leaning on the rail of their ship and OOPS, lost their grip on the pipe they were smoking. A lot of those pipes she picks up are still full of Tobacco ! I suspect a lot of those pipes were lost during cold weather when the sailors hands were cold or when they were wearing gloves.
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