'Thames' Post Medieval Clay Tobacco Pipe Collection

LATE 16TH-EARLY 18TH CENTURY A.D.

1 1/4 - 5 5/8 in. (2.4 kg total, 3.1-14.2 cm).

Collection of 186 pipes, bowls and fragments all recovered from the River Thames; including commemorative 'Khartoum' type with head of General Gordon; most with inked reference number. [186, No Reserve]

Provenance

Found on the Thames foreshore, London, UK.
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.

CONDITION

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LOT 2403