Hello Folks,
Just found this little white metal pipe bowl on a ca. 1815-1830 farmstead in southern Illinois.
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Unique to my experience … I suppose it could be an opium pipe, but the context seems a bit of a stretch. Anybody have any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
Mark
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Mark C. Branstner, RPA
Historical Archaeologist
Illinois State Archaeological Survey
Prairie Research Institute
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Champaign, IL 61820
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"As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their
faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving
only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their
cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste
of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to
make plans." - E. Hemingway