A Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes

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Identifier

0-7643-0596-4

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Series

Schiffer Book for Collectors

Edition

2nd Edition

Edition Notes

Revised
Now with Price Guide

Pages

254

Condition

Good

Listing Title

Antique Smoking Pipes – History Types Makers Values / Scholarly Book + Values

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Seller Notes

A COMPLETE GUIDE TO COLLECTING ANTIQUE PIPES – 2nd Edition – Now with Price Guide by Benjamin Rapaport, Schiffer Publishing Ltd., PA, 1979/1998.

Illustrated in color and black-and-white, this book is guide provides an historical account of the evolution and development of antique pipes. “It traces pipe styles, substances and genre, the craft and the craftsmen. Antique pipes of meerschaum, porcelain, clay, assorted woods and other substances were the expressions of people who created them for visual as well as nicotine pleasures. Some pipes were exotic and exquisite works of art, others ere whimsical and fanciful. These and hundreds of others are illustrated in this book along with specimen pages of old catalogues and lithographs of pipes.” The result of this scholarly survey is “a colorful, informative and educational tool for the collector, mature or would-be, the researcher, the tobacco historian, the ethnologist or anyone who loves art in any form for the author has convincingly proved that the antique pipe is high art.”
7” x 10” softback in very good condition. 254 pages.
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Order ID

25-06277-97278

Citation

Benjamin Rapaport, “A Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes,” Wirtshafter Collection-Cannabis Museum-Athens, Ohio, accessed November 21, 2024, https://cannabismuseum.com/omeka/items/show/10951.

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