Our Christmas wish

24 December 2018

The Amsterdam Pipe Museum wishes everyone a peaceful and special Christmas and a healthy and happy 2019. Also in the New Year we hope that you will visit our unique museum and our well-equipped museum shop again!

New on the web

21 December 2018

The special collection of pipe moulds from the company Knoedgen from Brée, which our museum bought at the end of August via pipe factory Big Ben, have meanwhile been cleaned, registered and photographed. From now on they can be seen in the online database of our museum. A first study of this material gave a lot of new information about the factory history of Jean-Jacques Knoedgen. For example, it appears that quite a few moulds were originally made in Germany. Quite unexpectedly, tools from Gouda have also been found, for example from Prince, who sold production moulds to Belgium in 1897. However, there is still a lot of puzzling and studying to do before the history of these special set of tools is well mapped and a solid article can appear.

Johan de la Court award

12 December 2018

Thirty years ago, Don Duco received from the chairman of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW) the Johan de la Court prize for his scientific research into the history of the clay tobacco pipe. This prize is awarded to people who have distinguished themselves with ground-breaking research on their own initiative. The prize, which in addition to a fine medal consisted of a large amount of money, was intended as an encouragement to continue with studies and publications. After 1988, countless articles and various books by Duco followed. This price certainly had a stimulating effect!

A lecture on clay pipes at Vrijburg Conference

7 December 2018

On behalf of the Amsterdam Pipe Museum, Benedict Goes was asked to speak at the so-called Vrijburgh Conference, an annual symposium on Dutch heritage in Brazil. He spoke about the clay pipes that ships of the West India Company carried and are still found by archaeologists along the coasts of Brazil. Since the theme of the day was craftsmanship, the lectures covered apart from the clay pipe also other forms of industry that were imported from the Netherlands such as wall tiles and tools for shipbuilding were discussed. Unexpected was the lecture on cartographer Cornelis Goliath, who traveled from Zeeland to Brazil around 1640 to chart the coast.