Record ID: LVPL-0BB26A
Object type: PIPE CLEANER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver Dutch pipe cleaner / pricker dating to the post medieval to modern period (c.AD 1780-1900). The object consists of the handle only. At the terminal of the handle is a winged cherub facing forwards and striding to the right. On the right it grasps a trumpet or garland in both its. The cherub is nude and is presented in the round. The chreub stands atop a sub-oval eye that is broadly in the form of a love heart. Below the eye is a stepped pediment consisting of four steps that are sized to create a broad hexagonal shape. Beneath the pediment are two prongs that…
Created on: Wednesday 8th December 2021
Last updated: Monday 13th December 2021
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Record ID: LEIC-77FD1E
Object type: PIPE CLEANER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early post-Medieval pipe cleaner, 99mm long, 33mm wide and 6mm thick with a weight of 14.72grams. The object consists of an openwork rectangular frame whose two long sides are made up of what appear to be tobacco pipes, with outwards pointing flaring circular bowls and long tapering circular sectioned rods. Between each 'pipe bowl' is a circular sectioned spike projecting outwards. The two 'pipes' are held together by short circular cross sectioned bars. The uppermost has has a long tapering circular cross sectioned shaft attached to it. This is integral and can be slightly pivoted…
Created on: Wednesday 20th April 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2016
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Record ID: KENT2076
Object type: PIPE CLEANER
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Representation of two clay pipes, cast in one, and joined back to back by three rectangular shaped plates. On the outer edge, between the heads of the two pipes, there is a small knop, which maybe decorative. Each of the three rectangular shaped plates have a hole. These are all aligned centrally with one another. Martin Crowther believed this object to be part of a clay pipe cleaner or a decorative element from a clay pipe rack. He also suggested that the object was broken at one end.
Created on: Friday 18th August 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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