177 – PKN Magazine

A remarkable find from the Zwolle area was not a smoking pipe but a handformed and decorated animal head made of pipe clay, possibly originating from a local pipe-making workshop (fig. 1). The Archaeological Working Group Zwartewaterland itself also possessed a relevant find that had previously gone unnoticed. The pipe, a bent ‘lakpunt’ from the Goedewaagen firm, bears on its front a depiction of the logo of the Archaeological Working Community for the Netherlands (AWN)

A remarkable record of an attempt to prevent someone from smoking dates from 1664. In that year, a “wager” was recorded before the notary Johan van Couwenberch in Breda between Cornelis Cornelisz Zips and Jacob Hendrick Bellekens, both residing in Princenhage near Breda (now a district in the south-west of Breda). The notarial deed states that Cornelis Cornelisz Zips (Sips) received a sum of five Carolus guilders from Jacob Hendrick Bellekens, on the condition that he would, “for the sake of his health,” refrain for the coming year from “drinking or sucking” tobacco.

The firm Otto Henze, founded in 1849 in Hannoversch Münden in the German state of Lower Saxony, was, in the first three decades of the twentieth century, an important manufacturer of porcelain pipes in Germany. The catalogues from the period ca. 1912–1940 show porcelain pipes on the first two to three pages. Evidently, these pipes remained the most popular among German customers. On 31 October 1905, Otto Henze obtained a patent in the German Empire for a “Pfeifenkopf mit Rost” (pipe bowl with grate), under number 174802. This invention concerned a porcelain pipe bowl containing an artificial deposit of tobacco residue and a grate.

By the end of 1635 or the beginning of 1636, a pipe maker appears to have been active on the Burgwal in Kampen. At that time, it was not uncommon for pipe makers to be engaged in both the retail and wholesale trade in tobacco. A debt acknowledgement by Willem Wreijt indicates that the pipe maker on the Burgwal was also involved in the sale of tobacco.

Over een in de Waddenzee gevonden pijp met een flink stuk steel, die in eerste oogopslag in Gouda gemaakt lijkt te zijn met een Gouds merk en bijmerk. De pijp is echter gemaakt in Grossalmrode, en heeft is niet gemerkt met het merk ‘Leeuw in de Hollandse tuin’ maar met een daarop gelijkend Duits merk, ‘Leeuw in het Hessische schip’. De pijp is waarschijnlijk gemaakt door de pijpenmaker Gebhard Johann Friedrich Rosenthal in Großalmerode in de Duitse deelstaat Hessen.

pipe, probably produced in Ruhla in Thuringia, depicting two standing figures clearly shows that the representation was applied using an appliqué. A not very common practise. The pipe is made of siderolith and marked with EL. Appliqués are also known from other pipes. Another pipe shows an example from Ruhla with a portrait of Luther, where it is clearly visible that an appliqué was used. Louis Fiolet from Saint-Omer demonstrates a different technique for applying an appliqué. They produced a series known as ‘Galerie Contemporaine’, a series of pipes from the same mould, with at least ten different appliqués depicting prominent figures of the time: Maurice McMahon, Émile Littré , Henri d’Orléans, duc d’Aumale, Louis Philippe Albert d’Orléans, comte de Paris , Edward VII, Prince of Wales, Victor Emmanuel II, Jules Dufaure, Léon Gambetta, Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers , Casimir-Pierre Périer

About standard tobacco pipes being beautifully painted, and turned into ‘gift’ items: two examples of black-painted doetel models with a gold-coloured rim and dark brown stem. On one pipe is written in gilded letters “for Father”, on the other “from Gouda”. Also, a fine hand-painted ‘lakpunt’ from the period 1900–1925 by the firm P. van der Want Gzn has come to light with the inscription “From Mother”. Did father receive this pipe from his beloved wife?