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  2. Kiseru - Wikipedia

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    The kō-bon, an incense tray, became the tabako-bon, a tobacco tray. The kōro, an incense burner, became the hi-ire, a tobacco embers pot. The incense pot became the hai-otoshi or hai-fuki, a jar to contain the ash. During the Edo period, many samurai and chōnin smoked tobacco, and often carried a kiseru in a special case called a kiseruzutsu.

  3. Tobacco pipe - Wikipedia

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    Pipe tobacco can be purchased in several forms, which vary both in flavour (leading to many blends and opportunities for smokers to blend their own tobaccos) and in the physical shape and size to which the tobacco has been reduced. Most pipe tobaccos are less mild than cigarette tobacco, substantially more moist and cut much more coarsely. Too ...

  4. Broseley Pipeworks - Wikipedia

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    Once the site of the most prolific clay tobacco pipe makers in Britain, exporting worldwide, the works were abandoned in the 1950s. Pipeworks bottle kiln. The museum preserves the details of the industry of clay tobacco pipe making and has a display of clay tobacco pipes, including the Churchwarden and Dutch Long Straw pipes. [1]

  5. White pipe clay - Wikipedia

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    The Gouda pipe was a long-stemmed white tobacco pipe made in Gouda in the same way as the old figurines in a pressed mold. They became popular with the import of tobacco through the Dutch East India Company and later the Dutch West India Company. The pipes can be seen in a number of 17th-century paintings and are regularly found in ...

  6. Amsterdam Pipe Museum - Wikipedia

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    The Amsterdam Pipe Museum (formerly Dutch: Pijpenkabinet, "pipe cabinet") is a museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, dedicated to smoking pipes, tobacco, and related paraphernalia. It holds the national reference collection ( nl ) in these areas.

  7. History of smoking - Wikipedia

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    After the Meiji restoration and abolition of the caste system, many craftsmen who previously decorated swords switched to designing kiserus and buckles for tobacco pouches. Though mass-production of cigarettes began in the late 19th century, not until after World War II did the kiseru go out of style and become an object of tradition and ...

  8. Chesapeake pipes - Wikipedia

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    Motifs or symbols were in many cases stamped or incised into the clay pipe, depicting such things as stars, ships, boats, tobacco plants, hearts, humans, animals and geometric shapes. In some cases, white clay had been used to fill in these shapes, making them stand out far more against the red clay that made up the rest of the pipe.

  9. Clay pipe dating - Wikipedia

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    Clay pipe dating is the act of dating clay tobacco pipes found at archaeological sites to specific time periods.. Pipe bowl found in Kent, southeast England.The circular hole through the tube is slightly off-centre and measures 3.36mm in diameter, and would suggest a rough date of c.1610 AD.