179 – PKN Magazine

In 1894, Reverend Nawijn received a special personalised tobacco pipe bearing his title, name, and the new place to which he had been appointed. The pipe is entirely painted black and has goldcoloured lettering and spiral decoration along almost the entire length of the stem. On the heel, the mark crowned 65 is stamped. The pipe was made by the Gouda pipe maker Martinus Nicolaas van Duijn, who was active between 1885 and 1925 and produced many pipes in these colour schemes.

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Large-format pipes exert a particular attraction on both collectors and researchers. This fascination is not only due to their exceptional size, but especially by the uncertainty about their original function. In the literature, they are generally referred to as presentation pipes, although terms such as display pipes or shop pipes are also used. Recently, a fine example has once again come to light that merits closer examination. Until around 2003, this pipe was part of the collection of H.J.E. van Beuningen, entrepreneur and passionate collector of historical objects of use. Together with his wife, he built up an extensive collection, which was ultimately donated to Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam.

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Since the seventeenth century, the tobacco pipe has been a symbol with multiple meanings. In early painting, it is often depicted as a symbol of excess and transience and also carries a phallic meaning. The combination of the long stem and bowl then forms a double entendre referring to the male sexual organ.

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Within the framework of recording finds of foreign pipes in the Netherlands, this time a nineteenth-century pipe by Trees-Knoedgen from Grivegnée in Belgium is discussed. The pipe was found in Hazerswoude.

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Two remarkable tobacco pipes from an old factory stock of the firm Goedewaagen feature previously unpublished images of a nude woman. Both “naughty” pipes are made of slip cast clay.

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Luka Bekić, a prominent archaeologist from Croatia, has published a book on approximately 2,500 pipe finds that he collected over a quarter of a century in that country. As many of these as possible are llustrated in colour at a scale of 1:1. Pipes that were found in maritime contexts off the coast are also included in the study.

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