A couple comments on the recent posts by Pfeiifer and Genheimer. As I pointed out in my initial post, Pat Tucker’s Wood Co., Ohio, pipe is closest to a style from the Kirkpatrick-Peterson factory at Point Pleasant, Clermont Co., Ohio, but does not exactly match any of the styles from this site. So Bob and I agree on this. However, as I also noted, it very definitely does not agree with the similar styles known from the Akron pipe manufacturers.
Having rooted around in my basement, I can also confirm that it definitely is not an Anna, Illinois, pipe, though a similar style was made there by the Kirkpatricks.
So, while Point Pleasant is the best guess, it remains uncertain. As for the Point Pleasant industry, Pfeiffer seems to confuse two different factories there. The best known, 33-Ct-256, was first operated by William P. Lakin, who died in 1843. We don’t know whether he made pipes but I consider it unlikely. Cornwall Kirkpatrick operated it from 1849-1853, and he is generally considered to have introduced the pipe-making, but the only evidence is the fact that the Kirkpatricks made pipes at their other factories in Kentucky and Illinois. The next owner, Nathan Davis, 1856-1871, definitely made pipes, as at least one style has his initials. This would probably include many of those found at Civil War era sites, although these styles could be holdovers from the Kirkpatrick period. The pottery was operated by the three Peterson brothers from 1874-1883, then as Peterson & Co. or Peterson & Cooper for a short time. It was sold at sheriff’s sale in 1887. Pipe production prob
ably did not extend much beyond 1883.
When Pfeiffer mentions that it lasted until 1913, citing Sudbury 1986, he is confusing the Kirkpatrick-Peterson pottery with the Clermont Pottery, which stood upstream at the site of the present Point Pleasant Church. It was operated by Bainum and Peterson until the 1913 flood but did not produced this plain, ringed elbow style.
Jim Murphy
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From: Smoke <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 11:48 am
Subject: Re: Clay Pipe Identification
> Patrick: I am almost positive that your specimen was manufactured at
> Point Plesant, Ohio.
>
> The Point Pleasant, Ohio, pipe factory, 33-CT-256, is a pottery, which
> operated from the 1840s until ca. 1890 (Sudbury 1979:182-185). The
> factory, under four successive owners, operated from the 1840s to
> approximately 1913 (Sudbury, 1986). So far, it is undetermined at
> which point tobacco pipes were added to their line of wares; at the
> very least by the early 1860s since one of the Point Pleasant Punctate
> varieties has been recovered from Fort Union North Dakota with a
> terminal date of 1865 (Pfeiffer, 2006:83). Point Pleasant pipes have
> been found all over the northern Plains and the Pacific Northwest
> (Pfeiffer 1982 & 2006).
>
> Most of these pipes have a fly ash glaze but a few early ones appear
> to have been salt glazed. I only recall seeing a single example that
> had the characteristic orange peel surface of slat glaze. The ash
> glaze may range from almost non-existent to heavy on a single pipe.
> The colors in the better pipes tend to be an even medium brown but can
> range from light brown to deep gray on a single specimen.
>
> Murphy, James
> 1976 Reed Stem Tobacco Pipes from Point Pleasant, Clermont County,
> Ohio. Northeast Historical Archaeology 5(1-2):12-27.
>
> Pfeiffer, Michael A.
> 1982 Clay Tobacco Pipes and the Fur Trade of the Pacific Northwest
> and Northern Plains. M.A. Thesis, Department of Sociology and
> Anthropology, University of Idaho, Moscow.
>
> 2006 Clay Tobacco Pipes and the Fur Trade of the Pacific Northwest
> and Northern Plains. Historic Clay Tobacco Pipe Studies Research
> Monograph 1. Phytolith Press, Ponca City, OK.
>
> Smith, Dennis O.
> 1986 Point Pleasant Pipes from the Cypress Lake Site, 3PU-192.
> Historic Clay Tobacco Pipe Studies 3:63-64.
>
> Sudbury, Byron
> 1979 Historic Clay Tobacco Pipemakers in the United States of
> America. In, The Archaeology of the Clay Pipe II. The United States
> of America, pp. 151-341, Peter Davey, editor. British Archaeological
> Reports, International Series 60.
>
> 1986b An Update on the Status of Pipe Manufacturing Sites at Point
> Pleasant, Ohio. Historic Clay Tobacco Pipe Studies 3:60-62.
>
> Thomas, B. B. (Ted), Jr.
> 1977 Clay Smoking Pipes Produced at Point Pleasant, Ohio. Spinning
> Wheel (April), 13-16.
>
> Thomas, B.B. (Ted), Jr., and Richard M. Burnett
> 1972 A Study of Clay Smoking Pipes Produced at a Nineteenth Century
> Kiln at Point Pleasant, Ohio. Conference on Historic Site Archaeology
> Papers 6:1-31.
>
>
> On 9/29/07, Patrick Tucker <[log in to unmask]> 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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> Smoke Pfeiffer
>
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