University of Reading | Archive and Museum Database

Object number
51/850
Collection
Lavinia Smith Collection
Description
This is a decorative brass pipe stopper with the bust of a man attached to the stopper for extinguishing tobacco in a pipe. It would have been carried in a waistcoat pocket. Nothing is known of its origin.
Physical description
1 pipe stopper: metal (brass); good condition
Archival history
No Lavinia Smith No. recorded.
Production date
1900 - 1930
Object name
Pipe stopper
Material
Metal, brass
Associated subject
PERSONAL LIFE : accessories - recreational
Smoking
Associated person/institution
Rippon, Miss Dorothy May Lyddon (Agent)