De Jong's pipes- and ceramic workshop
in Gouda

Original title: De Jong's pijpen- en aardewerkfabriek in Gouda

By Don Duco

Abstract: This article describes the history of a small factory named De Jong's pijpen- en aardewerkfabriek in Gouda, the Netherlands, a family-company founded in 1934 and active till 1977. Next to a brief history also the products are described, among which we find traditional clay tobacco pipes, souvenir pipes, also slib casted pipes with paintings in Delft blue, further more all sorts of small souvenirs and gifts.

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© Don Duco, Pijpenkabinet Foundation, Amsterdam - Holland, 1995.

Illustrations
1. Frank de Jong as a young pipe maker in the workshop of the Firm P. Goedewaagen & Sons, Gouda, the Netherlands,1908.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 235b

2. Press mould made by Frank de Jong for the production of an ice souvenir pipe showing the head of a clown in a top hat. Gouda, Goedewaagen Factories, 1922.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 1.131

3. Frank de Jong posing with the most prestigeous bride grooms pipe of the Goedewaagen Factories, Gouda, 1931.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections, documentation.

4. Heel mark grid or nailtop impressed on the bottom of a so-called doetel shape pipe bowl. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, 1935-1940.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 28

5. Stem label with text DE JONG & CO. GOUDSCHE PIJP GOUDA. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, 1934-1936.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections, documentation.

6. Stem label with text DE ECHTE HERTEKOP PIJP. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, 1935-1955.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.088

7. Label used on cardboard boxes for clay pipes. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1935-1945.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections, documentation.

8. Clay tobacco pipe with the traditional oval bowl and shorter stem named halve lange (half long). The bowl mounted with a pipe cover of wrought metal thread. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, 1935-1940.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 7.921

9. The long and the short kantoorpijp with a doetel bowl, straight stem and button mouthpiece. Round the stem a silver coloured label with the name of the factory. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, 1945-1960.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.068 and Pk 5.087

10. Clay tobacco pipe with beaker shaped bowl, without heel and straight stem. Stem label in red. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, 1935-1940.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.069

11. Three clay tobacco pipes in shape derived from the so-called sport pipe in different finishings, the top one a normal smoke pipe, the two others as souvenir articles one with flower decoration and the other in the colours of the Dutch flag. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1935-1955.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 3.825, Pk 5.073 and Pk 9.647

12. Clay tobacco pipe decorated in relief with a basket motive, more a pipe for blowing soap bubbles than for a serious smoker. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1955-1960.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.084

13. Two cigar holders, the bowl the head of Mercury, one painted in the colours of the Dutch flag, the other the colours of the Gouda arms. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1950-1960.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 29 and Pk 5.351

14. Press mould for a clay pipe the shape named portorico including a button shaped heel and a straight or slightly bent stem with a mouthpiece on the end. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, 1935-1940.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.101

15. Cigare pipe with a six sided conical bowl over the surface decorated with lines. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, 1938-1950.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 410ab

16. Unfinished pipe mould in brass for a cigare holder with a conical six sided shape. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, c. 1938.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.686

17. A large bowled pipe named the goliath with rather shapeless bowl, heel and straight stem with button end. Gouda, De Jong's Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1945-1960.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.046ab

18. Tobacco pipe with curved bowl decorated with buffalo horns and the letters RAOB as a symbol of an English society. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1935-1955.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.085

19. Two different RAOB-pipes by De Jong, the small difference caused by the reworking of the pipe mould that made the pipe slightly larger and the decoration a little bit different. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1935-1955.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.045 and Pk 5.085

20. Stub stemmed pipe with a billiard bowl mounted with a wooden mouthpiece from the First World-War period. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1940-1950.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.269, Pk 5.270 and Pk 7.397

21. Stub stemmed bowl painted in Delft blue showing a landscape with a wind mill, the pipe covered with yellowish lacquer. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1940-1950.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.269

22. Stub stemmed bowl painted in colourfull Delft palette showing a landscape with wind mill. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1940-1950.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.270

23. Stub stemmed bowl painted in purple in the style of Delft with a sailing boat in a Dutch landscape. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1945-1950.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 7.397

24. Tobacco pipe with a double wounded stem and a tobacco pipe with a single wounded stem, made respectively from a long and half long Gouda pipe. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1940-1950.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 1.418 and Pk 5.618

25. The cheroot holder and the cigarette pipe with single wounded stem. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1950-1960.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.090 and Pk 5.091

26. Three miniature pipes with twisted stems decorated with paint in the colours of the Dutch flag, of the Gouda city arms and in plain red with gold accents. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1935-1955.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 1.100

27. Three different miniature pipes by De Jong in two sizes with a flowerdrill on both sides on the bowl and on the stem. The black pipe is not black backed but painted black. The lowest is a so-called bullekopje, a miniature with a curved bowl. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1950-1960.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 3.631

28. Cardboard gift box of the De Jong Firm in which three decorated miniature pipes in red clay. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1945-1955.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 2.436

29. Small gift box in ivory paper containing six miniature pipes of the later period when only white pipes were in production. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1955-1965.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.360

30. Cardboard box for a gross of miniature pipes with on the lid in blue the gable of the Gouda town hall and the name of the factory. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1950-1960.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 1.885

31. Detail of a flower painting on one of the souvenir pipes of De Jong showing the loose way of painting. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1935-1940.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 3.825

32. Detail of a painting in black of a mill between green bush, the pipe finished with a yellowish lacquer, here on a doetel shaped pipe bowl. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, 1935-1940.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 28

33. The so-called Goliath shape with a painting of scematically depicted wind mill between green bushes. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, 1935-1940.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 25b

34. The Goliath shape with a transfer print showing the gable of the Gouda town hall, covered with yellow lacquer. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1950-1955.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 25a

35. Two types of Goliath-pipes with painting and transfer on the large and not very harmonious shaped bowl. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, 1935-1955.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 25ab

36. Detail of the pipe shape called portorico with a transfer print of the gable of the Gouda town hall in two sizes, both covered with lacquer. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1950-1960.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 15.455

37. Clay tobacco pipes in the shape called portorico with transfer prints and paintwork. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1950-1960.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.786 and Pk 5.870

38. Oval transfer print depicting the characteristic Gouda town hall on the side of a lacquered pipe with a twisted stem. The clay pipe was made by Goedewaagen in Gouda (shape number 448) and was decorated by De Jong. Gouda, NV Goedewaagen, finished by De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, 1935-1940.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.349

39. Double wounded clay pipe from De Jong, the longest pipe from the assortment in souvenir finish and with a transfer print. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, 1935-1940.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.972a

40. Clay pipe with a double twisted stem and print of a girl from Volendam in local dress, the bowl lacquered and the stem with paint. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1945-1955.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 9.891

41. Clay pipe with double twisted stem in colours of the Dutch flag. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1945-1955.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.346

42. Clay pipes with a single twisted stem painted in the colours of the Dutch flag, the pipe made by Goedewaagen (shape number 448) and painted by De Jong’s pipe factory, 1935-1950.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.042

43. Clay pipe for souvenir with a transfer of the Gouda town hall in its original box with glass lid. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1955-1965.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.988

44. Stub stemmed pipe bowl is slib cast technique with a Delft painting of a Dutch landscape with wind mill, covered with transparant glaze. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1945-1955.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.933

45. Mystery pipe with a shape named Prince Albert, painted by hand with a Dutch landscape with wind mill. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1950-1960.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 8.429

46. Mystery pipe with on the base of the bowl a swallow tail and a bowl hold by a human hand, both hand painted in Delft blue. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1950-1960.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 1.849 and Pk 5.974

47. Mystery pipe, so-called stiftje with cilindrical bowl and short straight stems decorated with all sorts of Delfts blue souvenir paintings. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1960-1970.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.973 and Pk 9.131abc

48. Mystery pipe with swallow tail base, on the bowl painted by hand a Dutch landscape. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1965-1970.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 13.296

49. The popular RAOB-pipe with a special order text related to the Gouda motoring club. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1955-1965.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 8.080

50. Cigarette holder shaped as a Dutch wooden shoe, painted in blue with a flower and the inscription GOUDA, on the other side an inscription errased by overpaint. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1950-1960.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.985

51. Letter head of the factory De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek in Gouda, 1960-1965.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections, documentation.

52. Miniature pipe rack in heraldic shape with lacquer finish with a print of a girl under an umbrella near the sea side. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpenfabriek, 1935-1945.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.359

53. Miniature pipe rack in heraldic shape with a hand painted decoration of the gable of the Gouda town hall. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1945-1955.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 15.019

54. Miniature pipe rack in polychrome in semi-Delft painting, on the reverse marked with the name of the factory. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1945-1955.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 13.271

55. Miniature pipe rack in Delft blue inspired on an example by the Royal Goedewaagen, on the reverse the signature of the factory. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1960-1965.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.619

56. Souvenir for a sport manifestation shaped like a mile stone. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1957.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 6.199

57. Wall tile to commemorate the Pijpensterrit, made in a Belgium factory and decorated in Gouda with a screenprint in Delft style. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1959.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 15.325a

58. Wall tile as a souvenir for the Pijpensterrit made up with all sorts of transfers with emblems related to Gouda. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1963.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 15.325b

59. Wall tile as souvenir for the Pijpensterrit decorated with a wide variety of modern prints of Gouda related subjects such as the emblem of the Moriaan Museum in Gouda. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1966.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 15.325c

60. Three long cigare holders with oval bowls, two painted with the Dutch flag and the gable of the Gouda town hall. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1955-1965.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 31 and Pk 5.987

61. Three short souvenir pipes from the large stock of broken pipes in the factory reserves, decorated in the 1970's in colourfull paint to be sold in the Gouda souvenir shops. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1970-1977.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 5.622, Pk 5.625 and Pk 5.626

62. The building of the factory in the Wilhelminastreet in Gouda shortly before they closed down the business.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet documentation, photocollection.

63. Two beaker shaped pipes from the 1950's that were painted c. 1975 to look like briar pipes and marked on the stem with old labels from c. 1935. Gouda, De Jong’s Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, 1974-1976.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 7.848 and Pk 7.849

64. Portrait of Arie de Jong with typical Gouda pipe in front of his private collection of clay tobacco pipes. Gouda, 1979.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet documentation.

Notes
1. Birth registers Gouda, 08-02-1888. Goedewaagen Archives 71, Pipemakers' book. Mentioned 1903-1906.

2. Goedewaagen Archives 699, 08-05-1918. Certificate as ambulance-class. Elongated 13-05-1921. Goedewaagen Archives 1016, 17-05-1918. De Jong, fee for exam ambulance-class ƒ 10,-.

3. Goedewaagen Archives 1015, 27-01-1917. Frank de Jong, mould maker, weekly wages ƒ 16,- (first mentioning).

4. Leiden, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 1.131.

5. D.H. Duco, Bronnen tot de geschiedenis van de pijpennijverheid in Gouda, Amsterdam, 1976 e.v. 30-05-1995 Chef Frank de Jong is mentioned in an interview with Alie van Dijk on the NV Goedewaagen.

6. Goedewaagen Archives 1005, 28-02-1922. Month wages of F. de Jong, brass moulds, ƒ 190,-. Goedewaagen Archives 1005, 31-01-1923. Inspection for Direct Taxes Fr. de Jong, Bockenbergstraat 79, ƒ 2380,-.

7. Anonymous, De Goudsche pijpen en het Goudsche aardewerk, een interessante fabricatie, Gouda, 1931.

8. SAHM, Goedewaagen Archives, 01-12-1927. Anonymous letter to the director of the Goedewaagen Factories.

9. Don Duco, Goudse pijpen, Amsterdam, 1978, p 36.

10. Goedewaagen Archives 1030, 30-04-1934. Dismission, 2 monthes payed a total of ƒ 155,- (worked shorter) and ƒ 171,- = ƒ 326,-.

11. D.H. Duco, Merken van Goudse pijpenmakers 1660-1940, Lochem, 1982, p 42.

12. Don Duco, 'RAOB-pijpen', Pijpelijntjes, III-2, 1977, p 6.

13. Don Duco, Goudse pijpen, Amsterdam, 1978, p 36.

14. Adressbook Gouda, 1950. De Jong's Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, Dutoitstraat 5.

15. Adressbook Gouda, 1964. De Jong Pijpen- en Aardewerkfabriek, Kleiweg 42.

16. Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections, Pk 1.878 and Pk 2.889.