An old retailers stock from Rijssen

Gedachten rond een restvoorraad pijpen uit Rijssen

By Don Duco

Abstract:: In the small Dutch town Rijssen in Twente a box containing pipe bowls and pipe paraphernalia was recently found back. The material dates from about 1890 and it concerns the overstock of a local pipe dealer. The content of the box illustrates the taste for pipes in a smaller Dutch town in that period. The majority of the material is meant for farmers and smokers living in the country, some other items are more luxurious and based on the taste of citizens. The total reflects the decline of the clay pipe in favor of porcelains and early wooden pipes, most of them based on the fashion initiated in Germany in the second half of the nineteenth century. The article discusses the material in the light of the local taste of that period.

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© Don Duco, Pijpenkabinet Foundation, Amsterdam - Holland, 2009.

Illustrations

1. Oval porcelain bowl called stummel with colored transfer print of a fox in a landscape. Germany, 1880-1890.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.622

2. Stummel with colored transfer print of a deer in a landscape. Germany, 1880-1890.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.623

3. Stummel with colored transfer print of a deer in a landscape. Germany, 1880-1890.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.624

4. Stummel with colored transfer print of a deer in a landscape. Germany, 1880-1890.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.625

5. Stummel with colored transfer print of a standing deer, a larger picture including gilding round the bowl opening and on the heel. Germany, 1880-1890.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.626

6. Stummel with colored transfer print of two hunting dogs. Germany, 1880-1890.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.627

7. Stummel with colored transfer print of a standing boxer against a sepia colored back ground. Germany, 1880-1890.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.628

8. Stummel with colored transfer print of the bust of King William III on size 9. Germany, 1880-1890.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.620

9. Stummel with colored transfer print of the bust of King William III on size 8 next to the larger size 9. Germany, 1880-1890.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.619

10. Porcelain stummel with hand painted decoration, in the centre the text “De Opgaande Zon” (The rising sun) in the border flowers and ribbons. Germany, Bohemian, 1870-1890.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.621

11. Hungarian stummel in soft wood with rib decoration and metal lid, the wood blackened. Bowl interior lined with sheet metal. Germany, 1860-1880.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.631

12. Wooden pipe in soft wood with stummel shape derived from a meerschaum example and painted in press meerschaum colors. Bowl interior lined with sheet metal. Germany, Thüringen, 1860-1880.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.632

13. Wooden pipe bowl in soft wood of the screw on stummel type inspired on a porcelain example and painted in press meerschaum colors. Bowl interior lined with sheet metal. Germany, Thüringen, 1860-1880.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.633

14. Briar wood pipe bowl, so-called egg-shape with large bowl content and thin wall. France ?, 1885-1895.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.634

15. Stub stemmed ten sided bowl with spotted finish and mounted with silvered lid and ditto stub-ring, original duck bone stem with buffalo horn mouthpiece. Tsjeck Republic, Chemnitz, 1875-1890.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.629

16. Stummel bowl, plaster molded with transparent glaze. Germany, Grünstadt, Bordollo firm ?, 1870-1890.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.630

17. So called vonkenvanger or vuurkorfje to protect the smoker from fire falling out of the pipe bowl, made of wrought iron with a brass chain and ring. The Netherlands, 1875-1890.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections Pk 19.635

18. Forced silvered pipe cap with chain and ring to place round the stem. Germany ?, 1880-1890.
Amsterdam, Pijpenkabinet collections without number

19. A part of the find in Rijssen that were not included in the Pijpenkabinet collections.

Notes

1. Don Duco, Kleipijpen uit de Kerkstraat in Aalten, Amsterdam, 2008.