Object number
97/34/4
Exhibition
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Description
Brown pipe with no mouthpiece. Inscribed: ' CHARATANS Half Century Pipe'. Beige box: ' BRIGHAM & CO LTD, 107 BROAD STREET, READING'.
This is a collection of five pipes made by different makers. All of them are in individual boxes. The pipes and the boxes have been accessioned as they came to the Museum. Although there is no guarantee that the pipes are in the correct boxes. This is a brown pipe with no mouthpiece. It has the inscription ' CHARATANS Half Century Pipe'. It is stored in beige box with blue edging marked ' BRIGHAM AND CO LTD // 107 BROAD STREET // READING'.
Physical description
1 tobacco pipe
Label Text
Tobacco pipes, mid-twentieth century. As many of the images in this exhibition show, farmers were often depicted smoking tobacco pipes. The five examples shown here with their original packaging are all briar pipes. This seems to have been a very popular type of pipe in the farming community. Designs like these were in common use throughout much of the twentieth century. Clay tobacco pipes were a more traditional choice. Farmers would have been familiar with early clay pipes, which are frequently unearthed in agricultural contexts through ploughing. The modern clay pipe shown here was made in Holland. It was purchased on 22nd November 1965 for 2 shillings and 11 pence. MERL 97/34/1-5, MERL 97/31.
Archival history
MERL Miscelaneous note-Georgia Charitou- 31 October 2014- The objects are part of the Claude Rumble collection.
Production place
Greater London [region], Broad Street [Reading]
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