A Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes

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.