Tobacco pipe stem decorated with fox and grapes and crest.
Earthenware, ball clay | Object #: 1694477
5/64'' bore diameter
5/64'' bore diameter
5/64'' bore diameter
This is the metal face, or front portion, of a two piece button. In this style of button, a disk of lathed bone with a beveled edge often served as a button back. The face of the button was commonly fashioned from a sheet of thin metal, usually a variety of copper alloy, which would be crimped onto the…
This is a fragment of a white clay tobacco pipe, the bowl of which is stamped with the initials “WM” inside a cartouche. Smoking tobacco was an activity that permeated the lives of eighteenth century people. Individuals as diverse as planters and enslaved laborers, men and women, adults and children…
This is a fragment of a white clay tobacco pipe, the bowl of which is almost certainly stamped with the initials “WM” inside a cartouche. Smoking tobacco was an activity that permeated the lives of eighteenth century people. Individuals as diverse as planters and enslaved laborers, men and women…
This is a fragment of a white clay tobacco pipe, the bowl of which is stamped with the initials “WM” inside a cartouche. Smoking tobacco was an activity that permeated the lives of eighteenth century people. Individuals as diverse as planters and enslaved laborers, men and women, adults and children…
This is a fragment of a white clay tobacco pipe, the bowl of which is stamped with the initials “TD” surmounted by a botanical element inscribed within a rouletted circle. Smoking tobacco was an activity that permeated the lives of eighteenth century people. Individuals as diverse as planters and…
This is the metal face, or front portion, of a two piece button. In this style of button, a disk of lathed bone with a beveled edge often served as a button back. The face of the button was commonly fashioned from a sheet of thin metal, usually a variety of copper alloy, which would be crimped onto the…
This fragment is a wine bottle seal, bearing the initials of DP Custis. Wine bottles such as this were primarily imported from Britain and Europe in the eighteenth century, and were commonly used to consume cider, beer, wine or liquors in colonial households of all statuses. Seals such as these were…