Rich,
    I don't know if this will help you or not, but the Museum of Tobacco
Art and History in Nashville is absolutely incredible.  It has a genuinely
extensive collection of anything having to do with smoking, including
pipes.  I don't remember anything specifically about the Dutch pewter pipes
to which you refer, but it wouldn't surprise me if you could get some good
information from this place.  As I recall, they were just getting together
a catalog of their collection when I visited about four years ago.  So it
should be available by now.  Their address is:
The Museum of Tobacco Art and History
800 Harrison Street
Nashville, TN 37203
    Good Luck to you!
    Andrea Clark

Richard Veit wrote:

> I am researching pewter and lead trade pipes.  They are found on 17th-
> and 18th-century sites in the Middle Atlantic and Northeastern United
> States.  Sometimes they are referred to as "Dutch pewter pipes."  The
> earliest one I am aware of was found at Jamestown and is reported by
> John Cotter. The pipes vary from miniscule to enormous and are often
> decorated with effigies of birds--particularly falcons, and dogs or
> wolves.  The decorations are three dimensional figurines attached to the
> pipes' bowls.
>
> Here is my question, so far I have references to these pipes in New
> York--dozens, New Jersey--a handful, Pennsylvania--dozens, Rhode
> Island--one or two, Virginia--one, and Ontario--one.  They appear to
> have been most common in the latter half of the 17th-century. Is anyone
> aware of examples from Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
> Maine or anywhere else?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rich Veit