A Complete Guide To Collecting Antique Pipes
Exton, PA: Schiffer Publishing Co., 1979. Hardbound. Dark blue cloth with blue, color-illustrated dustjacket. 254 pp., 100s of color and bw photographs and illustrations. Item #105505
ISBN: 0916838226
Many chapters examine different areas of this collecting arena. Includes a very useful selected bibliography, index. from later dustjacket: This is the first American book to consider the history and development of the tobacco-smoking pipe as an art form and is an illustrated guide for pipe collectors. Here the author has assembled fact and fancy, history laced with humor, and a chronological collection of pipes. The accompanying text explains pipe styles, materials, and values. Besides present-day briars and corn cobs, pipes can be found made of meerschaum, porcelain, ivory, amber, silver, gold, semi-precious stones and rare woods. Craftsmen have combined imagination, whim, and fantasy to create pipes of fine artistic value."
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