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LOT 2389
Central African Clay Smoking Pipe
TIKAR TRIBE, LATE 19TH-EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D.
9 1/4 in. (152 grams, 23.6 cm).
With decoration to the top of the bowl and an embedded wooden stem with leather binding, secured by twine; repair to the stem. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Cameroon, Central Africa.
From an old Dorset, UK, specialist collection.
From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.
Footnotes
From the Cameroon
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