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Object ID 6444-2
Object Name Pipe, Trade
Count 1
Description White clay. Smoothed bowl, no basal spur; raised design on stem of encircling bands and lines, leaves/stars; broken stem includes raised marks: "PETER" on one side, "DORNI" and "(stem break, presumably GERMA) NY" on other side. Purposefully(?) stained brown overall, darker on stem; bowl contains partially charred tobacco(?), presumed exhibit prop, and wadded paper plug to keep tobacco in bowl.

See: Brewer, Floyd I. "Albert Bradt, Tobacco Planter, and the Smoking-Pipe Story in Early Bethlehem, New York". In "Proceedings of the 1989 Smoking Pipe Conference: Selected Papers". Rochester Museum & Science Center Research Records, Rochester, NY, 1992, p. 158.)
Material Ceramic
Year Range from 1850
Year range to 1900
Dimensions H-4.1 W-2.5 L-11.1 D-10.16 cm
Makers mark PETER/DORNI
Culture European
British
German
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