Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 249: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology; Papers 52-54 on ArcheologyWatkins, C. Malcolm
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Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum - Bulletin 249: Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology; Papers 52-54 on Archeology
Watkins, C. Malcolm
Archaeology; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Virginia -- Gloucester County; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Virginia -- James City County; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Virginia -- Yorktown; Gloucester County (Va.) -- Antiquities; James City County (Va.) -- Antiquities; Yorktown (Va.) -- Antiquities
Another example (not illustrated) bears the maker's initials WP (or
R) on the sides of the heel,[53] stem-hole diameter 6/64 inch.
A3.
8. Tobacco-pipe bowl, white clay, form similar to no. 7 except
that the bowl is not quite as long and the fore edge of the
heel is less pronounced, stem-hole diameter 6/64 inch, about
1680-1700. A3.
9. Tobacco-pipe bowl, white clay, the bowl broader and at a
sharper angle to the stem than in the preceding examples, the
heel shallow and its fore edge extending from the bowl as
in nos. 2-5, stem-hole diameter 6/64 inch, about 1690-1720.
A3. This example is significant in that it represents the
evolutionary merging of the cylindrical and bulbous bowl forms,
with their varying heels and spurs, into a single bowl shape
that persisted through the 18th century. It should be noted
that the illustrated bowl retains the thin-walled circular
mouth common to most examples of its period. The mouth often
becomes more oval and the walls thicker in specimens dating
later into the 18th century.
10. Tobacco-pipe bowl, white clay, more or less cylindrical
rouletted line below the mouth, and with neither heel nor
spur. The absence of these last features is thought to have
been dictated by English pipemakers catering for the American
Indian market and initially copying aboriginal forms. Stem-hole
diameter 7/64 inch, about 1680-1700. H3.
11. Fragment of tobacco-pipe bowl and stem, clay, white surface and
pink core to bowl, but burnt white through stem; bowl shape
apparently similar to no. 10, stamped initials across top of
stem at the fracture, I·F flanked on either side by a period
and a cross,[54] stem-hole diameter 6/64 inch. E4.
12. Tobacco-pipe bowl and stem fragment, white clay, the form very
similar to no. 10 but without rouletting below the mouth. The
pipe is of interest in that the stem fracture has been pared
down after breaking to create a new mouthpiece and a stem only
approximately 2-1/4 inches in length. Stem-hole diameter 7/64
inch, about 1680-1700. C4.
13. Tobacco-pipe stem fragment, white clay, broken off at
junction with bowl and pared down at the other end as no. 12
thus creating a 3-inch stem. Hole diameter 6/64 inch, date
indeterminate. B6A.
14. Tobacco-pipe bowl, white clay, bowl shape similar to no. 2
but without heel; maker's initials on the base of the bowl,
almost certainly SA though the companion initial has been lost
from the other side.[55] Stem-hole diameter 6/64 inch, about
1680-1700. C4.
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