A collection of first-generation pipes from The Hague, Holland

Een groep eerste-generatiepijpen uit Den Haag

By Don Duco

Abstract: This article focusses on the deveopment of the clay tobacco pipe in the first twenty years of the seventeenth century in the Netherlands. Birth of the spur type is explained and dated and compared with the more common heel pipes. An interesting find from The Hague illustrates the new information on this subject.

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© Don Duco, Pijpenkabinet Foundation, Amsterdam - Holland, 2006

Illustrations

1. A group of first-generation pipes from the site Plein corner Lange Houtstreet 1 in The Hague, Holland.

2. Three pipes with the bulbous bowl and extremely long spur, The Hague?, 1605-1615.

3. Detail of one of the spur types showing the characteristic milling.

4. Series of nine pipes of the later spur type all from the same workshop, The Hague?, 1610-1615.

5. The spur shape in its third phase: the transformation from a spur in a heel takes place, The Hague?, 1610-1615.

6. The a-typical pipe from the find from unknown origin, west part of Holland?, 1610-1615.

7. Two pipe bowls of type two with the botter forced into the soft clay.

8. Top view of the earliest pipes with carefull milling encircling the bowl opening.

9. Two pipe bowls with broad milling over a deeply impressed botter line.

10. Pipe stem showing finger prints caused by handling too soft clay.

Notes

1. D.H. Duco, De Nederlandse kleipijp, handboek voor dateren en determineren, Leiden, 1987, p 28-31.

2. Don Duco, Goudsche tabagie of gastvrij hoerehuijs, Amsterdam, 1996.

3. Many thanks to Monique van Veen who brought these pipes, found in 2002, to my attention.