in response to Pat Tucker:

White clay pipes are not made of kaolin but of white ball clay. Calling them
kaolin was a mistake in the first place and everyone should stop doing it.
See Iain Walker's article reprinted in Schuyler's reader of previously
published historical archaeology articles.  Most everyone professes to have
read this reader but I seriously have my doubts.

mcb

On 9/29/07, Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> It doesn't appear to be from any of the Pamplin City Reed Stemmed
> Smoking Pipe manufacturing companies from Pamplin City, Appomattox
> County, VA, where kilns were in production starting in 1879. Sudbury
> does indicate that a gray product was produced that might be similar
> to yours. Both earthenware and stoneware pipes were produced.
> Sudbury's history is quite useful and is available from the
> Archeological Society of VA at www.asv-archeology.org
>
> Sudbury, Byron, History Of The Pamplin Area Tobacco Pipe Industry.
> ASV Quarterly Bulletin 32.2:1-35.
>
> Lyle Browning
>
>
> On Sep 29, 2007, at 9:31 PM, Patrick Tucker wrote:
>
> > Can anyone identify this clay pipe as to type or possibly
> > manufacturer? It
> > is plain (no decoration) and gray in color with a short stem. It
> > has a mould
> > seam in the front and back running the length of the pipe. Diameter
> > of the
> > bowl mouth is 22mm. Length of the bowl is 35mm. Length of stem is
> > only 18mm.
> > There is some discoloration on the bowl due to oxidation of metal
> > (probably
> > iron). The object comes from an archaeological site known as Port of
> > Miami/Orleans (33Wo50) on the Maumee River in northwest Ohio, and
> > dates ca.
> > 1810-1850. I suspect the pipe was locally manufactured, like redware
> > pottery, and post-dates CE 1850 since it comes from the surface of
> > the site.
> > White clay (kaolin) pipes (bowls and unmarked stems) were found within
> > specific features and the plow zone. The site contains a residential
> > structure (cabin remodeled into or succeeded by a frame house with
> > a brick
> > foundation). Digital images of the pipe can be found at the links
> > below.
> >
> >
> >
> > http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/Pat_Tucker/
> > 33Wo50PipeGrayClayShortSt
> > emNo425Lef.jpg
> >
> >
> >
> > http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/Pat_Tucker/
> > 33Wo50PipeGrayClayShortSt
> > emNo425Rig.jpg
> >
> >
> >
> > http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r230/Pat_Tucker/
> > 33Wo50PipeGrayClayShortSt
> > emNo425Bot.jpg
> >
> >
> >
> > Pat Tucker
> >
> > French Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan
> >
> > Detroit
> >
> >
>



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