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"item_title" : "A Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes",
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Overview
This is the first American book to consider the history and development of the tobacco-smoking pipe as an art form and is an illustrated guide for pipe collectors. Here the author has assembled fact and fancy, history laced with humor, and a chronological collection of pipes. The accompanying text explains pipe styles, materials, and values. Besides present-day briars and corn cobs, pipes can be found made of meerschaum, porcelain, ivory, amber, silver, gold, semi-precious stones and rare woods. Craftsmen have combined imagination, whim, and fantasy to create pipes of fine artistic value.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780764305962
- ISBN-10: 0764305964
- Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
- Publish Date: April 1998
- Dimensions: 9.95 x 6.97 x 0.68 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.56 pounds
- Page Count: 256
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