Museum number:

APM 22.647

Subcollection:

meerschaum pipes

Title:

tobacco pipe

Keyword:

lid with seven gun barrels and cannon

Description:

Tobacco pipe of meerschaum with bag shaped bowl with flattened sides, round bottom and rising stem widening to the end. Undecorated. Mounted with a silver valve cover consisting of a drum form of which seven cannon barrels protrude, on the lid a complete cannon with a stack of cannon balls on the right and a rolled-up wick on the left side. Silver stem plate with octagonal stem holder on which a knotted rope with tube with bonnet to keep the cannon barrels clean.

Date:

Period

1805 - 1820

Dimensions:

General	Height	4.21 in (10.7 cm)
Bowl	Height	2.99 in (7.6 cm)
	Width	1.97 in (5 cm)
Stem	Length	4.92 in (12.5 cm)