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Found this pipe
- Thread starter Kapok
- Start date
RandyNorthridgeca
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I don't know anything about smoking stuff either but it looks old to me! Cool find! 
doc holiday
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Never saw one with that projection on the bottom. Interesting.
bootyhoundpa
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I believe those clay pipes were from mid to late 1800s..
Goldstrike
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A Google search "Clay pipe images" shows a lot of pipe's with the projection on the bottom of the bowl. I want to say and I might be wrong! but it might be where they are filled with liquid clay (they are cast) and I believe it's called a sprue. I used to own a ceramic business many moons ago so I do know a bit about casting with clay (slip casting). A nice find
Goldstrike said:A Google search "Clay pipe images" shows a lot of pipe's with the projection on the bottom of the bowl. I want to say and I might be wrong! but it might be where they are filled with liquid clay (they are cast) and I believe it's called a sprue. I used to own a ceramic business many moons ago so I do know a bit about casting with clay (slip casting). A nice find
I would expect the hardest part would be getting that long slender hole down the length of the stem - true?
Divers have found a good many used clay pipes and fragments of stems in the approaches to Gloucester Harbor over the years. As I understand it the stem would clog with condensed resins (creosote) and the user would break off the clogged portion of the stem to restore its function. Apparently, it didn't occur to people that if that schidt was clogging their pipe, it was doing the same thing to their lungs and bronchials.
-pete
Goldstrike
Well-known member
I just got through looking at some u tube videos of how clay pipes are made and maybe they were not slip cast after all!! There are a few ways they are made including being pressed into moulds and they used a long thick needle to make the slender hole through the stem of the pipe. Very interesting!