"TD" Smoking Pipe Bowl and Stem

White ball clay smoking pipe decorated with six-pointed stars around bowl-rim and the molded initials "TD" encircled by starts facing the user. "TD" was the most popular pipe logo of the 19th Century (2011: 59). Initially manufactured in England in the 18th century by Thomas Dormer and possibly his son, TD pipes were widely copied by pipemakers throughout the 19th Century. AKRF Inc, and URS Corp (2011) South Ferry Public Report: Battery Walls, Sherds, and Clay Pipes; Archaeology at the South Ferry Terminal Site.

• Object number

  1093.02

• Context

  Lot 9, Test Cut AO1, Redeposited Late-18th- to Mid-19th-Century Privy Fill Below Intrusive Wall, Strata XVIII (544.1093)