Seventeenth and eighteenth century pipes from Flushing, Sealand

Zeventiende en achttiende eeuwse pijpen uit Vlissingen

By Don Duco

Abstract: Discussion of a find of 91 pipe bowls and 337 stem fragments dating from the seventeenth and eighteenth century. From the earlier material we can conclude that the smoker in Sealand was quite well informed about the fashion in pipe styles that took place in the province of Holland. The local industry copied these products so well that sometimes it is hard to distinguise where the pipes were made. After the year 1700 the local industry disappeared and mainly Gouda products were used.

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© D.H. Duco, Pijpenkabinet Foundation, Amsterdam - Holland, 2006.

Illustrations

1. Clay tobacco pipe from the first generation with bulbous bowl, rounded bowl opening and groove, stamped on the heel with a grid. The Netherlands, Sealand, 1615-1620.

2. Basis shape 1 with fullgrown bowl, milling around the bowlopening, heelmark WR + two stars. The Netherlands, Sealand, 1630-1645.

3. The higher type of basis shape 1 with a larger size than standard, milling, bowl and stem stroke burnished, heelmark TIP + two stars. The Netherlands, Gouda, Thiel Jansz. Proost, 1670-1680.

4. Large size bi-conical pipe bowl, milling, bowl and stem burnished, heelmark BS. The Netherlands, Gouda or Sealand, 1670-1685.

5. A-typical shape with fluted bowl, milling on the stem side, unpolished surface. The Netherlands, possibly Sealand, 1670-1690.

Notes

1. D.H. Duco, De kleipijp in de zeventiende eeuwse Nederlanden, Oxford, 1981, chapter Middelburg and Tholen.

2. Duco, Ibidem, 1981, p 332. Willem Renalts, 1632.

3. Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 16.329.

4. The standard height is between 3,4 and 3,8 centimeters, the largest bowls measure between 4,3 and 4,4 centimeters hence they are almost 30 percent larger.

5. D.H. Duco, De Nederlandse kleipijp, handboek voor dateren en determineren, Leiden, 1987, p 35, afb 61 en p 36. Don Duco, 'De Amsterdamse pijpenmaker Eduard Bird, een levensschets', Pijpenkabinet, Amsterdam, 2002, afb 7.