Stamped Smoking Pipe Heel and Bowl Rim

One fragment of a smoking pipe bowl with a rouletted rim and heel. There is a crowned HG maker's mark stamped onto the base of the heel, suggesting that this pipe was manufactured by Hendrik Gerdes, a 17th-century Dutch pipe maker. Made of white ball clay. The interior surface of the bowl is slightly blackened. The bore hole diameter is 7/64 inches.

Maker's mark illustration by Alaina Wibberly.

• Object number

  1209.72

• Date made

  1668 - 1688

• Dimensions

  Bore Diameter 7/64 inches

• Decoration

  Rouletted

  Makers Mark

  Text Mark

• Color

  White

• Animals/objects

  Smoking Pipe

• Category

  Personal

• Class

  Ceramic

• Material

  Ball Clay

• Forms

  Heel/Bowl/Rim

• Techniques

  Molded

  Burned