Museum number:

APM 18.156

Subcollection:

miscellaneous objects

Title:

gift box

Keyword:

gift box with two clay pipes

Description:

Geschenkdoos van karton met rechthoekig model waarin onder een scharnierend deksel twee compartimenten waarin twee korte kleipijpen. Buitenzijde rood fluweel met op deksel in gouddruk "THE COMPANY OF TOBACCO PIPE MAKERS AND TOBACCO BLENDERS, WITH THE MASTER'S BEST WISHES". In deksel geplakte folder met "THESE PIPES ARE REPLICAS OF THE EARLIEST ELIZABETHAN CLAYS SMOKED IN LONDON IN THE 1580'S. THE ORIGINAL SHAPES WERE IMITATIVE OF THE INDIAN PIPES BROUGHT HOME BY THE SEA CAPTAINS AND COLONISTS IN THE DAYS OF HAWKINS AND DRAKE. THEIR TINY BOWL WERE DUE TO THE HIGH COSTS OF TOBACCO WHICH, WE MUST REMEMBER, WAS FIRST SOLD BY ELIZABETHAN DEALERS FOR ITS WEIGHT IN SILVER. (etc.).".

Date:

Period

1952 - 1960

Dimensions:

General	Width	5.43 in (13.8 cm)
	Thickness	2.09 in (5.3 cm)