Michael Pfeiffer wroye in relation to my post regarding SE Asian smoking
pipes predating European pipes
 
 
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>I must disagree with this. The English had been manufacturing clay tobacco
>pipes for about 100 years before the date of this wreck. For an easy to obtain
>quick example of the pipes from 1570-1580 to 1902 see Rapaport, Benjamin, 1979
>A COMPLETE GUIDE TO COLLECTING ANTIQUE PIPES. Schiffer Publishing, Ltd., Exxon,
>Pennsylvania.  For more archaeologicaly oriented illustration of pipe shapes
>and sizes over time, see Osswald, 1960; Oswald, 1961; and Atkinson and Oswald,
>1969.
 
I guess that I did not make myself clear here. Looking at the highly
developed style of these pipes (they are stoneware) and the fact that the
bowl capacity would be about 15 times the size of European counterparts, my
guess would be that these date several hundred years earlier than European
counterparts which for the first 75 years of manafacture were both small
and crude. I guess the European size related to the cost of tobacco, the
crudeness may have been because they were 'disposable'.
If anyone is interested in looking at one and does not have access to IJNA
then I will put it up on the WWW at http://mm.wa.gov.au/Museum/pipe.html,
but give me a day from now!
Also, these pipes are still used today and I have seen examples, with the
same basic style, although more crude in the local bong shop in Fremantle!
 
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