Wooden tobacco pipe case

Wooden tobacco pipe case

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Wooden tobacco pipe case
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Wooden tobacco pipe case, with hinged flap at front which accommodates bowl and long straight tubular stem holder, English, 1780-1860; A card wrongly states item to be a churchwarden pipe case: stem would be much longer and curved

Details

Category:
Smoking
Collection:
Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
Object Number:
A157716
Materials:
wood
Measurements:
bowl: height 70 mm
length 240 mm
bowl: diameter 32 mm
stem, maximum: diameter 22 mm
type:
pipe cases
credit:
Glendining