Rights Holder: Hampshire Cultural Trust
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Unique ID: HAMP-95FBF1
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An incomplete clay smoking pipe, dating to the period 1880-1930. This pipe has a large, triangular fragment missing from the bowl, and much of the stem is missing (am old-ish break). Incomplete, it measures 53.25mm in length and 27.15mm in max.width (at the bowl, tapering to 14.11mm where it joins the stem). The clay at the bowl is 7.21mm thick, and has an off white patina, with patches of grey sooting (from use) to the interior. The stem measures 8.91mm in diameter with a 1.9mm diameter central hole.
David Higgins notes: "Damaged spurless bowl form a short-stemmed or 'cutty' pipe with moulded milling around the rim. The design on each side of the bowl depicts an Armstrong-Fraser type gun between two stars with the lettering XLNT above (the last letters are partially chipped away). This refers to HMS Excellent, the Royal Naval gunnery school in Portsmouth, which was established in 1830 and originally situated on a series of hulks before being moved to Whale Island between 1885 and 1891. The style of the bowl dates from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century and the maker's name and place of work would have been moulded within a beaded border on the sides of the stem (the very end of which survives on each side). This design is illustrated by Fox and Hall (1979, Fig 139) who note that several mould variants are known. This suggests that it was a popular pattern in the area and that it may well have been produced by more than one of the local manufacturers around 1880-1930." (Pers. Comm. 20/12/16).
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1880
Date to: Circa AD 1930
Quantity: 1
Length: 53.25 mm
Width: 27.15 mm
Thickness: 7.21 mm
Weight: 9.18 g
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Other reference: Hampshire Cultural Trust Entry Form WINCM 296
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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