Patrick
I am not as certain that your pipe came from Point Pleasant. We have the world's largest collection of Point Pleasant pipes, saggers, and kiln furniture, most of which was looted from several areas of the site over a 30 year period. I pulled varieties PL1-PL11 (Thomas and Burnett 1972) for comparison. Although there are some similarities to PL3 or PL4, I cannot confirm either attribution from the photos you provided. The bulbous stem rib is dissimilar to most Point Plesant pipes. So, it could be but not necessarily. As Jim Murphy indicated similar pipes were made at Akron and Mogadore during the second half of the 19th century.
Bob Genheimer
George Rieveschl Curator of Archaeology
Cincinnati Museum Center
1301 Western Avenue
Cincinnati, Ohio 45203
513-455-7161
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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.
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> Pat Tucker
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> French Canadian Heritage Society of Michigan
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> Detroit
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