Four horn and wood stems with mouthpieces

Made:: 1850-1910

Four horn and wood stems with mouthpieces, once belonging to four porcelain tobacco pipes, German or Austrian, 1850-1910

Details

Category:: Smoking

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A653411

type:: tobacco pipes

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Parts

Wooden stem with curved horn mouthpiece for tobacco pipe

Wooden stem, tubular, vertical, curved horn mouthpiece, silver band at junction of two

Measurements:: height 230 mm
diameter 16 mm
length 50 mm

Materials:: wood , mouthpiece, horn and band, silver plated

Object Number:: A653411 Pt1

type:: tobacco pipes

Image ©: The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum

Tobacco pipe horn stem in two parts

Horn stem in two parts, threaded together, tubular with mouthpiece with flexible wire and cloth hose

Measurements:: height 260 mm
length 45 mm
max.: diameter 33 mm

Materials:: horn , mouthpiece, horn , mouthpiece, metal, wire and mouthpiece, cloth

Object Number:: A653411 Pt2

type:: tobacco pipes

Ornately carved horn stem with mother-of-pearl bands for tobacco pipe

Ornately carved horn stem threaded in 3 parts, each separated by mother-of-pearl band, curved mouthpiece, elliptical insection, bobble missing from end