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Pipe research, between mathematics and recognition

Original title: Pijpelogie, kul of kunde ?

By Don Duco

Abstract: This article describes the work of three Dutch pipe researchers in their struggle to come to a usefull dating system for clay tobacco pipes. Dirk Goedewaagen using as starting point the development of the bowl styles in Gouda pipes. Frits Friederich basing his works on the growing of the pipe bowl in course of time and Don Duco analysing the development of all the characteristics of the clay tobacco pipe.

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© Don Duco, Pijpenkabinet Foundation, Leiden/Amsterdam - Holland, 1988.

Illustrations

1. Portrait of Dirk Goedewaagen, 1955.
Amsterdam, documentation Pijpenkabinet Foundation.

2. Results of the studies of D.A. Goedewaagen showing the development of the Dutch clay tobacco pipe.
Amsterdam, documentation Pijpenkabinet Foundation.

3. Portrait of Frits Friederich, pipe collector and researcher in Haarlem, c. 1965.
From: Friederich, Pijpelogie, Voorburg, 1975.

4. Dating formula by Friederich showing the different curves for the various pipe shapes.
Amsterdam, documentation Pijpenkabinet Foundation.

5. Assortment of the II-maker from Gouda showing the differences in bowl sizes.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 10.462-10.465

6. Assortment by Jan Danens in Gouda showing the differences in sizes between the oval pipe bowls and the curved pipe bowls.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 10.467

7. HBO-results from the study collection of the Pijpenkabinet.
From: Duco, De Nederlandse kleipijp, handboek voor dateren en determineren, Leiden, 1987.

8. Scedule of the deductive dating system by Duco.
From: Duco, De Nederlandse kleipijp, handboek voor dateren en determineren, Leiden, 1987.

Notes

1. The photographs were sent to Dr. Van der Sleen in Bussum, now preserved in the Pijpenkabinet in Leiden, Holland.

2. F.H.W. Friederich, ‘Pijpelogie’, Westerheem, VIII-1, 2, 3, 1964, Westerheem, XIX-4, 1970, Westerheem, XXI-2, 1972.

3. F.H.W. Friederich, Pijpelogie, vorm, versiering en datering van de Hollandse kleipijp, Voorburg, 1975.

4. D.A. Goedewaagen & G.C. Helbers, Goudsche pijpen, De geschiedenis van de pijpmakerij te Gouda & De merken en merkenrecht van de pijpmakers te Gouda, Gouda, 1942.

5. D.H. Duco, De Nederlandse kleipijp, handboek voor dateren en determineren, Leiden, 1987.
1. Portrait of Dirk Goedewaagen, 1955.
2a. Results of the studies of D.A. Goedewaagen showing the development of the Dutch clay tobacco pipe.
2b. Results of the studies of D.A. Goedewaagen showing the development of the Dutch clay tobacco pipe.
2c. Results of the studies of D.A. Goedewaagen showing the development of the Dutch clay tobacco pipe.
2a. Results of the studies of D.A. Goedewaagen showing the development of the Dutch clay tobacco pipe.
2b. Results of the studies of D.A. Goedewaagen showing the development of the Dutch clay tobacco pipe.
2c. Results of the studies of D.A. Goedewaagen showing the development of the Dutch clay tobacco pipe.
3. Portrait of Frits Friederich, pipe collector and researcher in Haarlem, c. 1965.
7a. HBO-results from the study collection seventeenth century pipes of the Pijpenkabinet.
6a. Assortment by Jan Danens from Gouda showing the differences in sizes between the oval pipe bowls.
7b. HBO-results from the study collection eighteenth century pipes of the Pijpenkabinet.
2d. Results of the studies of D.A. Goedewaagen showing the development of the Dutch clay tobacco pipe.
4. Dating formula by Friederich showing the different curves for the various pipe shapes.
8a. Scedule of the deductive dating system by Duco.
6b. Assortment by Jan Danens from Gouda showing the differences in sizes between the curved pipe bowls.
8b. Scedule of the deductive dating system by Duco.
2e. Results of the studies of D.A. Goedewaagen showing the development of the Dutch clay tobacco pipe.
5. Assortment of the II-maker from Gouda showing the differences in bowl sizes.
8c. Scedule of the deductive dating system by Duco.

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