Clay tobacco pipes from a former canal in the Beerstreet in The Hague, Holland

Tabakspijpen uit een gedempte gracht in de Bierstraat te ‘s-Gravenhage

By Don Duco

Abstract: This article deals with a find of almost 200 pipebowls in a former canal in the city centre of The Hague. The material dates from the first moment smoking was taken up till about 1650. As the material is spread over a period of two generations, it clearly reflects the development of the clay tobacco pipe in this part of Holland and in particular the taste of a special group of smokers.

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© D.H. Duco, Pijpenkabinet foundation, Amsterdam - Holand 2007.

Illustrations

1. Tobacco pipe from the first generation with extreme long and slender spur. The Netherlands, The Hague?, 1600-1615.

2. Tobacco pipe from the first generation with the common type of spur. The Netherlands, province of Holland, 1600-1615.

3. Tobacco pipe from the first generation with spur, the stem decorated with a series of stamped diamonds with geometrical filling. The Netherlands, province of Holland, 1600-1615.

4. Stem of a tobacco pipe stamped with diamonds with the initials PM. PM-maker. The Netherlands, province of Holland, 1600-1615.

5. Tobacco pipe with small heel stamped with a stilized geometrical rose. The Netherlands, province of Holland, 1600-1615.

6. Tobacco pipe with a slender bowl cut of with a knife at the rim, stroke burnished. Heelmark rozette shape. The Netherlands, province of Holland, 1605-1615.

7. Tobacco pipe with an oval shaped biconical bowl, explicit heel and straight stem. Bowl and stem stroke burnished. Heelmark BS under crown. The Netherlands, province of Holland, 1605-1615.

8. Tobacco pipe with bi-conical bowl, heel and straight stem. Bowl and stem stroke burnished. Heelmark IS initials. Rotterdam, Jan Scheppert, 1610-1620.

9. Tobacco pipe with bi-conical bowl and pronounced heel. Bowl and stem stroke burnished. Heelmark diamond with curved sides filled with a stilized flower. The Netherlands, province of Holland, 1615-1625.

10. Tobacco pipe with bi-conical shape with large flat heel base, mark crowned rose with initials WF. The Netherlands, Gouda, Willem Flud, 1625-1628.

11. Tobacco pipe with bi-conical bowl and large flat heel, marked on the heel with rose with dot-shaped leaves. The Netherlands, Rotterdam, 1625-1628.

12. Tobacco pipe with bi-conical bowl and large flat heel, marked RA initials onder crown in contour. The Netherlands, Rotterdam, 1625-1632.

13. Tobacco pipe with bi-conical bowl, heel and straight stem. Heelmark rose under crown. Bowl left side a spot of yellow lead glaze. The Netherlands, Gouda?, 1625-1635.

14. Tobacco pipe with bi-conical bowl, heel and straight stem. Heelmark rose under crown. Stem stamped decoration with lilies in diamonds. The Netherlands, Gouda, 1635-1645.

15. Tobacco pipe with bi-conical bowl, heel and straight stem. Careful finishing and polishing. Heelmark IC with plant. The Netherlands, Gouda, 1630-1635.

16. Tobacco pipe with bi-conical bowl, heel and straight stem. Simple finish. Heelmark TB. The Netherlands, Delft, Thomas Bael, 1630-1635.

17. Tobacco pipe with bi-conical bowl, heel and straight stem. Simple finishing. Heelmark BB, the left initial in reverse. The Netherlands, Delft, 1630-1640.

18. Tobacco pipe with bi-conical bowl, heel and straight stem. Polished. Heelmark RF. The Netherlands, province of Holland, 1630-1640.

19. Tobacco pipe with bi-conical bowl, heel and straight stem. Polished. Heelmark TS. The Netherlands, Gouda, Thomas Schipper?, 1635-1645.

20. Tobacco pipe with funnel shaped bowl (basis shape 2), heel and straight stem decorated with centre of gravity with millings bordered with pearl beams. Heelmark N under crown. The Netherlands, Gouda, Nanne Pietersz., 1705-1715.

21. Tobacco pipe with funnel shaped bowl and spur. Bowl on the left side the arms of Amsterdam in relief. Spur left side mark arms of Gouda with initital S. The Netherlands, Gouda, Antonie van IJzendoorn/Abraham Passet, 1760-1790.

22. Tobacco pipe with oval shaped bowl, round bottom without heel and straight stem. Base of the bowl decorated with ribbings, stem side a crown. Province of Holland, 1760-1780.

Notes

1. D.H. Duco, The Clay Tobacco Pipe in Seventeenth Century Netherlands, Oxford, 1981, p. 199.

2. D.H. Duco, ‘Kleipijpen, van datering naar vondstinterpretatie’ (Clay tobacco pipes, from dating to find interpretation), Westerheem, 1999.

3. Don Duco, 'Kleipijpen uit de eerste-generatie, mogelijkheden en onmogelijkheden bij het determineren’ (Clay tobacco pipes from the first-generation, possibilities and problems in dating them), Westerheem, 2004.

4. Don Duco, Een groep eerste-generatiepijpen uit Den Haag, Amsterdam, 2006.

5. D.H. Duco, Merken en merkenrecht van de pijpenmakers in Gouda, Amsterdam, 2003, pp. 13-14.

6. D.H. Duco, Biografische gegevens van pijpenmakers in Nederland, Amsterdam, 1976 e.v. Information on Thomas Bael.

7. Duco (Merken), Amsterdam, 2003, p. 180, no. 815.