I have done the dating of pipes on the Davey Bar series catalogues around
the ones I have found as suggested by Dennis below. My site dated from 1870
and all my Davidson, W White and McDougal Glasgow pipes are a lot further
down the catalogue then number 72 (Davidson 150 1870>, W White 362 1873>
McDougal 340 1891>) so I suggest whatever Glasgow maker you have, the pipe
is one of their earlier ones.

Gaye

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Subject: Re: Glasgow tobacco pipes?

Hi Rachael

Glasgow was a major manufacturing and exporting centre for clay pipes, 
especially to the British Empire, and almost certainly likely to be found 
elsewhere.

The best reference for the industry and manufacturers, which is worth 
tracking down is:

Peter Davey [ed] 1987
Archaeology of the clay tobacco pipe X: Scotland
BAR [British Archaeological Reports] British series no 178

This includes a number of detailed studies and a series of manufacturers' 
price lists, some illustrated, which may correlate with your number 72.

There are about 200ish post-1800 Glasgow manufacturers listed.  Some of the 
better known and more widely exported Glasgow manufacturers are [from 
Davey]:

William Christie 1860-1952

Thomas Davidson 1862-1911

Duncan McDougall 1846-1967

No. 72 in the listed catalogues are:

Davidson - Irish price list - 'Heeled Irish'

McDougall - 'Heeled Irish'

White - 'Tip'

Davidson - 1900 price list - 'Large Australian' [probably couldnt fit 'Good 
looking, charming, does housework and all our other innate qualities on the 
stem available].

The manufacturer lists represent sequential additions to their range [we 
think], so to get a first manufacturing date you'd have to see what dateable

pipes came before and after it on the specific list.  They remain available,

in theory forever, after that, so only good for a terminus post quem at 
best.  In the absence of more info you'd be pretty safe with 1850s-60s. tpq.

Denis

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