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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.
Whether it's the smoking of tobacco pipes or cigarettes ... stone, wood or clay, with Whangarei Museum housing an excellent example of these vintage smoking utensils ranging from simple machine ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Thackeray and his colleagues tested several of Shakespeare’s clay tobacco pipes “using a sophisticated technique called gas chromatography mass spectrometry,” the scientist writes.
Archaeologists from the Maryland Department of Transportation State Highway Administration sent four clay tobacco pipe stems they found along with thousands of artifacts in the slave quarter at ...
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 ...