Other countries, such as Germany, Sweden, Spain and France, were also specializing in pipe making. In the 17th and 18th centuries, our early settlers were engaging in smoking these clay pipes ...

No inkwell, no blotter, no pipe rack. So today, what the heck, let's talk about pipes. It turns out that the history of pipe smoking goes ... a soft clay, in the early 18th century.

The discovery set off the pipe-making industry and proliferated tobacco use in England so much that export of the crop was instrumental in saving Jamestown more than two decades later. The clay ...

They were ubiquitous in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries—to the point, she says, that “wherever you have people during this historic period, you’ll find these clay tobacco pipes in the ...

Tobacco's popularity created a large demand for pipes that were typically made in London using white clay from Dorset, along England's southern coast. Interested in the lucrative new industry ...

reports that he found cannabis residue in four clay smoking pipes from William Shakespeare's garden in the Stratford-upon-Avon area. The report states that Thackeray ... "found unquestionable ...

His company manufactured clay pipes engraved with delicate fruits, flowers and other designs. Clay tobacco pipes were fragile but cheap and are among “the most commonly-found [artifacts] on ...

Pamplin is the former home of the nation's largest pipe clay factory. Clay smoking pipes were made in the town as early as 1739. The film has already been nominated for best film and director in ...

The historic clay smoking pipe found on a remote Fiordland beach is thought to have belonged to the explorer and miner William Docherty. A clay tobacco pipe found on a remote beach in New Zealand ...

It was home to one of the last clay tobacco pipe factories in the country, which closed its doors during the 1950s. Kate Cadman, from Broseley Pipeworks, said: "It's absolutely wonderful that we ...