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Makers' marks on spurs are not uncommon - I believe Oswald illustrates a
number of examples. There are several in the various BAR volumes. I know
we have such specimens which were published from the St. John's Site (18ST
1-23) in St. Mary's City, MD in the BAR volume on the Chesapeake co-edited
by Peter Davey and Dennis Pogue.
Silas Hurry
Historic St. Mary's City
At 02:56 PM 3/8/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Dear List mates,
> My student Scott Kitchens is working on a paper on ball clay smoking
>pipes. He has done a good deal of reading in the sources that we have,
>but given the limited nature of our reference materials, this has not
>been exhaustive.
>
> He has looked at Noel Hume (Colonial Artifacts), Pfeiffer (Tobacco
>related assemblage ...), Humphrey (Clay pipes from old Sacremento),
>Sackett (Hist. Clay Pipes of the Minnesota Area), Davey (Arch. of the
>Clay Tobacco Pipe), Thomas' paper in South's Historic Site Arch. Papers,
>as well as several general histories of smoking & pipes. He has seen
>Pfeiffer's bibliography (though we wouldn't have many of the entries).
>
> Scott has observed that several of our pipes have what appear to be
>single small Roman letters (one appears to be an "F", another an "R") on
>the sides of their spurs (the small extension below the bowls of some of
>these pipes), but has not seen any mention of these marks in his
>reading. Can anyone give us any guidance in trying to identify the
>function of these embossed marks or sources on them.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Christopher Murphy
> Department of History & Anthropology
> Augusta State University
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