A Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes

This is the first American book to consider the history and development of the tobacco-smoking pipe as an art form and is an illustrated guide for pipe collectors. Here the author has assembled fact and fancy, history laced with humor, and a chronological collection of pipes. The accompanying text explains pipe styles, materials, and values. Besides present-day briars and corn cobs, pipes can be found made of meerschaum, porcelain, ivory, amber, silver, gold, semi-precious stones and rare woods. Craftsmen have combined imagination, whim, and fantasy to create pipes of fine artistic value.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 04/24/1998
ISBN: 9780764305962
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.56lbs
Size: 9.95h x 6.97w x 0.68d