CH Smoking Pipe Bowl Rim

One thin-walled white ball clay smoking pipe bowl fragment with a plain rim. Stamped high on the center of the bowl are the initials "CH." The marked area would have faced the smoker. The maker may have been Charles Hickes, a pipe manufacturer from Bristol, England, who manufactured pipes between 1700 and 1740.

• Object number

  112.2

• Date made

  1700 - 1740

• Decoration

  Stamped

  Maker's mark

• Color

  White

• Animals/objects

  Smoking Pipe

• Category

  Personal

• Class

  Ceramic

• Material

  Ball Clay

• Context

  Lot 13 South, Green Silty Fill from Installation of Wooden Box (624.112)

• Forms

  Bowl/Rim

• Techniques

  Molded