In our next number we will give an account of the method of manufacturing the ordinary clay tobacco pipes, with a description of the furnace used to bake them. Watch-Classes—How they are Made A ...

It turns out that the history of pipe smoking goes back to ancient times ... but those were supplanted by meerschaum, a soft clay, in the early 18th century. However, while meerschaum lent itself ...

Hand-cut square nails and small fragments from 18th century clay smoking pipes are the biggest clues found so far during a ...

The pipe's clay may well have been carried by barge on ... I like the irony of a man who had presumably chosen the anti-slavery motif smoking tobacco grown by slaves in Virginia.