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Pipe makers' marks - Page 5
Seventeenth-and Eighteenth-Century Marked Clay Tobacco Pipes From Ferryland, Newfoundland
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RVB/SID/NEY Incuse. Stamped or mould imparted on the stem.
Initials RS sometimes moulded on sides of heel.
Stem bore size: 5/64ths
Mark identified as Reuben Sydney, Southhampton pipemaker 1687-1748.
Refer to Oswald 1975:173; Walker 1971:81.
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REUB/ENSI/DNEY Incuse. Stamped or mould imparted on the stem.
Initials RS sometimes moulded on sides of heel.
Stem bore size: 5/64ths
Mark identified as Reuben Sydney, Southhampton pipemaker 1687-1748.
Refer to Oswald or Walker (above). Different stamp from above example.
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IG Incuse. Stamped on pipestem. Flower/Fleur de lys decoration between lettering.
Stem bore size: 6/64ths
Stem fragment only. This style of mark on the stem of a pipe dates from
1675-1725 and is common in the North-East and Central Southern England (Oswald 1975:79).
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H/EDWA/RDS Relief. Moulded cartouche on the right side of bowl.
Stem bore size: 6/64ths
Moulded cartouche on the right side of the pipe bowl is a popular
style in Bristol and the West Country from 1700-80 (Oswald 1975:70).
Both pipe bowl and mark identified as Bristol pipemaker Henry Edwards
1699-1727. Refer to Walker 1977:1418.
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R/TIPP/ET Relief. Moulded cartouche on the right side of bowl.
Pipe bowl fragment, no stem bore measurement.
Moulded cartouche on the right side of a pipe bowl is a
popular style in Bristol and the West Country from 1700-80 (Oswald 1975:70).
Identified as Robert Tippet II or III. Robert II (1678-1713 poss. to 1720);
Robert III (1713 poss. to 1720). Refer to Walker 1977:1493.
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ER Relief. Moulded cartouche on the right side of bowl.
Stem bore size: 5/64ths
Moulded cartouche on the right side of a pipe bowl is a popular style in
Bristol and the West Country from 1700-80 (Oswald 1975:70).
Mark of Edward Reed, Bristol pipemaker (1706-23, poss to 1735).
Refer to Walker 1977:1478.
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E Reed Relief. Moulded cartouche on the right side of bowl.
Stem bore size: 5/64ths
Moulded cartouche on the right side of a pipe bowl is a popular style in
Bristol and the West Country from 1700-80 (Oswald 1975:70).
Both pipe bowl and mark identified as Edward Reed, Bristol pipemaker
(1706-23, poss to 1735). Refer to Walker 1977:1478.
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W/TIPP/ET Relief. Moulded cartouche on the right side of bowl fragment.
Fragment of pipe bowl only.
Moulded cartouche on the right side of a pipe bowl is a popular style in
Bristol and the West Country from 1700-80 (Oswald 1975:70).
Mark identified as William Tippet I or II, Bristol pipemaker.
William Tippet I (1689/90-1727/8), William Tippet II (1713-22).
Refer to Walker 1977:1502.
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HH Incuse. Stamped on back of bowl facing smoker.
Pipe bowl fragment, no bore measurement.
Mark identified as Henry Hoar (1699-1739), Bristol pipemaker who
took over the pipe moulds of R. Tippet. Refer to Walker 1977; Oswald 1975:86.
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IB Relief. Moulded cartouche on the right side of bowl fragment.
Stem bore size: 5/64ths
Moulded cartouche on the right side of a pipe bowl is a popular style in
Bristol and the West Country from 1700-80 (Oswald 1975:70).
Identified by Mark (1967:21) as Bristol manufacture and dating from 1690-1740.
Many makers from this period, See Oswald 1975 or Walker 1977 for list.
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IS Relief. Moulded cartouche on the right side of bowl.
Stem bore size: 5/64ths
Moulded cartouche on the right side of a pipe bowl is a popular
style in Bristol and the West Country from 1700-80 (Oswald 1975:70).
Many makers from this period, See Oswald 1975 or Walker 1977 for list.
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©1999, Barry Gaulton
Archaeology Unit, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Photographs by Roy Ficken, Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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