Museum number:

APM 20.670

Subcollection:

meerschaum pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

pipe in leather cassette

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of meerschaum with a bag-shaped bowl, round underside without heel and rising stem widening to the end. Undecorated. Mounted with gilded silver valve cover with cylindrical drum, the lid rim on the side and the top embossed with flowers, a shell as a finger rest for opening. Stem mounted with gold-plated silver with outer edge, top plate and end of stem holder with border with flowers, large locking ring with a double gold-plated silver chain. Internal lid and stub ring stamped silver marks with "EW" for the maker. The pipe with a velvet cover with four pairs of ribbons on the top to tie. Complete with a wooden cassette on the outside covered with red maroccan leather and with two hooks, interior greenish blue velvet.

Date:

Year 1825


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight3.74 in (9.5 cm)
BowlHeight2.76 in (7 cm)
Width1.89 in (4.8 cm)
StemLength5.12 in (13 cm)
Other dimensions etui lang: 20 cm, breed: 12,5 cm, hoog: 6,5 cm
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape bag shape
Materialblock meerschaum (stone)
Techniqueturned (on a lathe)
Colouryellow-brown
Other materialssilver (metal), leather (animal material), fabric (fabric), wood
Finish gemonteerd, verguld
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryEngland
Region nationalYorkshire
TownSheffield
Mark "EW" en zilvermerken (ingeslagen, dekselring en steelhouder)
Acquisition
Year 2011
Provenance Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1973-2011, nr DD435 (oud nr 16.67)
Weybridge (Surrey), Gallagher LTD, december 1973
Comments
Een prachtig voorbeeld van een geimporteerde zakvormige meerschuim pijpenkop in Engeland gemonteerd in een bijna koloniale bloemenstijl van grote luxe. Ook het stoffen etui voor de roker en de met leer beklede cassette getuigen van kostbaarheid.
De pijp werd op 13 december 1973 door de directeur van Gallaher Ltd. in Londen, de heer L.F.G. Pritchard aan scheidend directeur Th. E. Niemeijer uitgereikt. Zie: Pijprokes Magazine, XIII-1, 1974, p 7.
Exhibition
Groningen, Niemeyer Tabaksmuseum, 1978-2010, verdieping.

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