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Lime-light consumables

Hookah tobacco pipe, enamelled metal base, glazed porcelain water reservoir, silver bowl with clay or lime lining with brass lid, flexible spring tube mouthpiece partly felt covered near end with ivory mount, amber mouthpiece missing, with tweezers attached, Turkish or Persian, 1880-1930

Hookah tobacco pipe (Turkish or Persian)

1880-1930

Mabor indestructable limes. Two limelight limes for optical lantern. Wrapped in tissue paper. W.B. & S. Ltd.

Mabor indestructable limes

Nargileh, in four parts comprising bowl, reservoir, stand and coiled wire mouthpiece and stem, complete, Arabic, 1850-1925

Nargileh - tobacco pipe

1850-1925

Corrobboree wand or "yai-iua", long roll made by strands and folds of dried grass and paper bark tightly bound together with hair string, coated with lime and surmounted by tuff of feathers, for healing backache, Kakadu people, N. Australia, 1880-1920

Corrobboree wand or "yai-iua"

1880-1920

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