Pipe finds from the Wijnhaven in Rotterdam

Pijpvondsten aan de Wijnhaven in Rotterdam

By Don Duco

Abstract: On the Wijnhaven (Wine port) in Rotterdam archaeological investigation was carried out on a spot where once a shipbuilder worked, a site that was thereafter built with houses. Four cesspits were excavated, of which in one a number of 182 pipe bowls and numerous stems were found. The majority of the material is of ordinary quality and is representative for the house holds on this spot in Rotterdam.

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© Don Duco, Pijpenkabinet Foundation, Amsterdam - Holland, 2008.

Illustrations

1. Some of the more remarrkable pipe finds from Wijnhaven in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

2. Fragment of a tobacco pipe marked on the heel with the initials IS. Rotterdam, John (Jan) Schepper(t), 1615-1620.

3. Tobacco pipe with a curved shaped bowl, heel and straight stem. Gouda, 1740-1770.

4. Tobacco pipe with English shape, so-called straight-sided, Londen, 1660-1680.

5. Tobacco pipe with bi-conical bowl, heel and straight stem. Round the stem in relief two sided symmetrically ordered decoration of a twig with leaves between concentrical circles. Rotterdam, 1640-1650.

6. Tobacco pipe with slender bi-conical bowl, heel and straight stem. Heel mark flower with the initials DK. Stem centre of gravity decocration with lilies in diamonds, Holland, 1650-1670.

7. Tobacco pipe with funnel shaped bowl, heel and straight stem. Heel mark HS initials. Gouda,. 1700-1720.

8. Tobacco pipe with in relief decorated bowl with a standing king in royal mantle and on the other side a blackamor with roll of tobacco and a pipe. Gouda 1710-1725.

9. Tobacco pipe with oval bowl, socalled farmers pipe (boerenpijp) with mark crowned N surmounted by the initials of the maker IGN. Holland, 1750-1800.

10. Wig curler in pipe clay, England and the Netherlands, 1700-1800.

11. Pipeclay figurine representing a standing woman. Holland, 1730-1800.

Notes

1. Find numbers 42, 59, 61.

2. André-Paul Bastien, La pipe, Paris, 1972, (s.l.), introduction.

3. Richard le Cheminant, ‘The Development of the Pipeclay Hair Curler, a Preliminary Study’, London Archaeologist, Summer 1978, p 187 a.f.