Museum number:

APM 22.820

Subcollection:

wooden pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

carpenter's tools

Description:

Tobacco pipe made of wood with a high four-sided bowl with a light s-curve, a flat underside and a rising four-sided stem. Bowl around four panels, the sides with freemasonry symbols on a bow with a half moon on the left and a radiant sun on the right, a compass on the front with on a ribban a square and a hammer, the stem side with two bones. Original silver mounting with square valve cover with simple closing spring crowned by a wooden lion's head with the bust of a man on the back, a square silver stem plate with a conical handle with a small locking ring. Bowl inside and cover inside covered with sheet iron.

Date:

Period 1770 - 1800


Dimensions:

GeneralHeight4.61 in (11.7 cm)
BowlHeight3.5 in (8.9 cm)
Width1.46 in (3.7 cm)
StemLength2.36 in (6 cm)
Characteristics
Pipe type stub stemmed pipe
Pipe shape four sided
Materialwalnut (wood)
Techniquecarved
Colourlight brown
Other materialssilver, iron (metal)
Finish was
Traces of use gerookt
Production
ContinentEurope
Region internationalWestern Europe
CountryGermany
Acquisition
Year 2017
Comments
Sigarenmerk Cogétama brengt c. 1970 een serie van 24 sigarenbanden met diverse pijpen, deze pijpenkop is er één van.
Literature
Georg Alfred Brongers, Van Gouwenaar tot bruyère pijp. Amerongen, 1978. p 139. Dit exemplaar. Palmhout (Buxus).
Georg A. Brongers, 60 pijpen uit de collectie van het Niemeyer Nederlands Tabacologisch Museum. Groningen, 1981. p 57. Dit exemplaar. Bijschrift: Duitsland, c. 1825.
Gustav Casparek et al., Von der Leidenschaft des Pfeifenrauchers. Bielefeld, 1984. p 138. Dit exemplaar.
Ralph Plum, ed., La passion de la pipe, fumée et fumeurs. Bielefeld, 1984. p 138. Dit exemplaar.
Don Duco, Hoogtepunten uit het Amsterdam Pipe Museum. Amsterdam, 2020. hoofdstuk: Stijlvolle schwung met timmermansgereedschap. Dit exemplaar.
Exhibition
Amsterdam, Amsterdam Pipe Museum, tentoonstelling "Aanwinsten 2017", 2 februari - 6 mei 2018.

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