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HISTORICAL SMOKIANA.
HISTORICAL SMOKIANA.
Transcriber’s Note: This text was handwritten originally with many illustrations containing captions that were also handwritten. We have tried to represent the original as faithfully as possible which means that some sentences begin with lowercase letters, some sentences run on, inconsistent spelling is prevalent, etc. The HTML version contains the images of the original pages with transcriptions underneath....
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Ye PREFACE.
Ye PREFACE.
To The Courteous Reader. Greeting The stream of Conquest has generally flowed from North to South. The Triumph progress of the Goddess Nicotina has been from West to East starting in the 16 th. century she has now girdled our little orb with devotees burning continuous incense. The Instruments connected herewith are objects of Historical & Ethnographical interest hence are brought together authentic Portraits of the “Pipe Family”. Briar root and Branch “who judge from the favor in which
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Tobacco Plants & their Varieties.
Tobacco Plants & their Varieties.
Although Smoking is generally associated with Tobacco only, yet there are other plants whose leaves are used for similar purposes & these will be referred to as we come to the different means of using them. Our first Woodcut of Tobacco is from STELLA—ROMA 1669. a work of...
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BROSELEY SALOP.
BROSELEY SALOP.
The various stamps & names of early makers of Tobacco Pipes are most satisfactorily corroborated by the Parish Register and the families seem to have gone on prospering, but the sickle “of Old Time” has been put in & . & old things have passed away making room for new. The Four stamps given on the opposite Page are amongst the Earliest known. & of great interest. The quality of the Clay must have attracted the makers to that spot—after the introduction of Pipes to
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HOLLAND.
HOLLAND.
The Dutch have always been great Smokers, how often does Ostade introduce clay Pipes into his pictures & when they favored us with a visit in 1689. how many records have been dug up from time to time wherever they were located. The Typical Pipe of Holland is that of “ GOUDA ” make. & The Pipe enters largely into Wedding ceremonies thus they have for the Copper wedding, the long clay Pipe of some 36 in. decorated with Copper leaves. The Silver Wedding Silver leaves & The G
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GERMANY.
GERMANY.
As a Nation of Smokers The Germans have always carried the palm & do still & with them Smoke & Song were ever inseparable. Imagine a German Student without his Pipe, & his Corps Cap we should not know him. The Leading feature in German Pipes is decidedly The long Bowl of Porcelain generally adorned with some Beauty on the front of it in medallion form. The stems are of great lengths some four feet or so with flexible tubing leading up to the mouth piece. These may
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NORTH EUROPE.
NORTH EUROPE.
The Island of “AMAGER” near Copenhagen has retained its costumes & customs so faithfully that we have confidence in the Pattern Pipes which are now still in use. The Long one. 4 ft 8 in is the House, the shorter one 6 in. in the bowl contains the allowance of Tobacco for the day, this is the constant companion of the out-door worker. In Norway small blocks of meerschaum seem to be most in vogue. The Hungarian Pipes are of red clay. & show asiastic influence in form. The Tyrolese
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ALGERIA.
ALGERIA.
We are now in a new sphere of Pipe-Land: a Kind of slack water between European & Asiatic systems—in which the Turkish type predominates thus the upper Red clay bowl on the opposite page is quite Turkish & the handsome Arab Pipe of a form seen often smoked riding on a Camel shews us how decoration will now be introduced in a new form. The Stem of this Pipe is beautiful in Colour, the Ivory having a very beautiful arabesque pattern upon it, the red colour of which harmonises delig
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AFRICA.
AFRICA.
Everywhere in the Dark Continent the habit of smoking something or somehow has been met with by our most energetic explorers even in the dense forests of new Equatoria. The Pigmies find it desirable to have something to smoke. Paul Du Chaillu in 1856 brought to our notice the Pipes shewn at the top of the next page. These are used by The Fans , a fierce Cannibal tribe—great in the mystery of Iron work, and are generally made of red or very dark clay. The Specimen from SANKURU River LAT 5° S is o
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AFRICA
AFRICA
DAHOMEY is associated in our minds with the most ghastly & cruel scenes of useless blood-shed. & yet “TOBACCO” is smoked there and gradually is the Symbol of Peace asserting its gentle influence & Dahomey is now more humane than when Capt. Burton first visited it. To him we are indebted for the specimens opposite. The long peculiarly formed bowl like a “nepenthes” or Pitcher Plant is of Iron & has prongs or spurs of Iron. Length of stem, 33 in. The Hanging tufts a
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TURKEY
TURKEY
Turkish tobacco is such a familiar form & so comprehensive in its light varieties that Turkish pipes must at once be called “ CHIBOUQUES ” & “ HOOKAHS ”. The red clay bowl of the former is generally 2 in. in diameter. The stem of Cherry or of Iasmine 5 ft long. When the Bowl is primed it is covered with thin paper & prepared for lighting. The Smoker at a range of 5 ft gives the signal & the light is applied—The mouth piece of clouded amber is very rounded &amp
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PERSIAN.
PERSIAN.
STELLA of ROME, here is again useful to shew us the “Hookah” of Persia in his day. his book was published 1669 and as travelling from TEHERAN to the HOLY CITY was less rapid than nowadays, we may fairly accept this illustration as representing a well-established object. The action of the “Hookah” or “Hubble bubble” is to draw the smoke through the water—& so cool & purify the fumes of the Tobacco Being made of Glass. This is called a “ SHISHEH ” & in it is smoked the. Per
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INDIA.
INDIA.
The Persian Fashion doubtless soon took India by storm & the maharajahs found in Hookahs a new object of luxury & one capable of unbounded decoration, in fact a new field for native talent to embellish & enrich. The upper bowl which contains the tobacco is called whatever the material whether richly embossed or the simple red clay which tries one’s lips at BENARES . These State Hookahs are of considerable height running to Thirty inches & Three feet—with coils of
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YARKAND.
YARKAND.
As Pipes are made out of every conceivable material we cannot be surprised that where “Iade” has its habitat that there its services should be enlisted & utilized—& so it is: The “ Yarkand ” River has much Iade but to work it & bore it for a pipe must not only involve great care & consummate skill, but necessitate rarity of production The wooden & more humble confrere is much more general & very easily made anywhere. The Dark clay “chillum” belongs
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CHINA & COREA.
CHINA & COREA.
Still working to the Eastward we come to the land the ancient land of Iohn China-man, a land of small bowls & jade mouthpieces & water pipes in the shops for the inveigling of undecided customers and for the more definite explanation of small bowls the full sizes are now traced here for reference..—Diams. The Pipes of Corea have longer stems & the Bowls are flatter as shewn & they are brass.....
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JAPAN.
JAPAN.
This most delightful country with its kindly inhabitants are great Smokers in a small measure if the regulation size of the generally used bowl be taken as a standard. Many people fancy that the little Jap. bowls the real size being thus.—are used for Opium—not at all. The Tobacco they use is very light in Colour & very fine cut indeed. The full size of the general pipe is given on the opposite page at the foot. Their Tobacco pouchs are very artistically worked & ornamented their
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BORNEO.
BORNEO.
It always adds very greatly to the value & interest of any object for a collection if it has been well used & especially if acquired from the original owner when using it. Such was the Case with the specimen of Dyak Pipe & Tobacco Box now given. The Bamboo stem is rather large according to our idea in proportion to the Bowl. The Dyak is equal to the occasion & regulates the draft by putting dry grass therein. The wooden Bowl is very small. The wire at the side is
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SUMATRA.
SUMATRA.
The Iava museum at Batavia is a grand collection & one of the most instructive from the care with which it has formed & the admirable Catalogue well compiled. SUMATRA is of course well represented: The ACHEEN section a little thin. & the large brass pipes from Batak-landen are very welcome. The British Museum has one a little longer than the Iava specimen. The Pin cushion arrangement on the wooden Bowl for the Pricker to be stuck into is very original & the steel
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AUSTRALIA. NOV. HOLL.
AUSTRALIA. NOV. HOLL.
NEW HOLLAND, aborigines have not been found worshippers of the Goddess “NICOTINA” altho a sort of Wild tobacco was discovered near Port Jackson.—The European cutty came in with the Gold Digger & this plug Tobacco—in vain have we sought a native Pipe but we have one now before us adapting Nature’s work to a new use for man’s convenience. The EMU (Dromæus. NOVIÆ HOLLANDIÆ.) is requisitioned & Heathen Chinee or more likely MALAY—has produced the Smoking apparatus on the opposite pag
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New ZEALAND.
New ZEALAND.
Pipes seem to be a general register of the art of the Country in which they are made and in this case it is especially useful at a transition period like the present as when this class of ornamentation is fast passing away. This carved work on the basis of a real Briar structure assumes a new type—below the carving—as it goes off as a spike to stick into the ground like a linstock of old with the match ever ready & burning. The wood of this example is very hard & takes therefore
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NEW GUINEA.
NEW GUINEA.
Bamboo is the material now in vogue and the mouth piece is cunningly arranged by making a small hole at the joint for the draught & bore. The Tobacco tube which cannot be called a bowl but rather a cigar or cigarette holder is always at right angles to the thick stem which averages 14 in & 15 in. in length. The ornamentation like that of “CHINAM” cases is very delicate & refined. The South Pacific affords us a shell pipe and from SAVO & the SOLOMON ISLANDS. we hav
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SOUTH AMERICA& Paraguay River.
SOUTH AMERICA& Paraguay River.
The Spanish influence in South America has not been likely to contribute to the developement of Pipe smoking, but we find native specimens of considerable interest Beginning from the South in Magellan Straits. The Patagonians. use the small short form which was in Mr. Braggs collection above that is quite a new feature a square pipe of 13 in. in length used on Great State occasions—the sides ornamented with a Key pattern & steps as on HUACA · POTTERY in Peru. The large Bowl with small bo
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NORTH AMERICA.
NORTH AMERICA.
We have now come round to the original home of Tobacco & smoking: to the Land of the “CALUMET of PEACE” & the “ TOMAHAWK PIPE ” & where Sir Iohn Hawkins & Raleigh. Drake first saw the “Weed” in use. The despisers of the “Weed” may chuckle may they hear the old Proverb “that ill Weeds grow apace” for it has grown & must be very infectious nor is there any falling off for “Steamers” go & there The Goddess NICOTINA will surely take root such is the ex
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ARCTIC PIPES& LAPLAND.
ARCTIC PIPES& LAPLAND.
In this part of the world there is not much material for the making of Pipes for the only wood is generally brought up by the kindly Gulf Stream from the West Indies even to NOVA ZEMBLA still the sparse Inhabitants fall back on the tooth of the “ Walrus ” & very comely looking pipes are the result. The Laplanders pipe is generally made of thin iron which may be accounted for by the proximity of the once very famous “ SWEDISH ” Iron....
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BORNEO.
BORNEO.
After the Tobacco, & the Pipes, very naturally occurs the Question as to getting a Light. The friction of Two dry pieces of Wood is the most primitive method still in vogue where modern methods are still unknown and the light “HIBISCUS” wood is the easiest of all to obtain fire from but in BORNEO . The Dyaks of the KYAN tribe are most scientific they produced it by compressed air & do still & we only know of two other places SUMATRA & the North of BURMAH where thi
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S. AMERICA.
S. AMERICA.
Doubtless, The Spaniards carried with them all through their Conquests of S. AMERICA their “MACHEROS” which is a tube to carry the match. To the tube is generally attached a chain leading to a hook which the top pulls out with the match for the purpose of lighting with the flint & steel . Some 50 years ago the Peruvian & Chilian Ladies worked very beautiful match with Lace let in. Some MACHEROS were of Gold, some of Silver. In India they are larger and are called “ RAMASWAMI .”..
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THE ANTEPENULTIMATE of IGNITION.
THE ANTEPENULTIMATE of IGNITION.
The Flint & Tinder Pistol combination was a very great advance when first introduced, striking a light in the dark with a Flint & steel is not easy & all who have tried will say so, then the old Brimstone flat matches were odorous, next we had French “Amadou” & a match like a walking stick topped with Brimstone explosive matter, then smaller ones followed by “TANDSTIKERS” & now hand in hand “VESUVIANS” of the delightful Wax “VESTAS.”...
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