A Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes

ISBN-13:	9780764305962
Publisher:	Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date:	04/24/1998
Series:	A Schiffer Book for Collectors Ser.
Edition description:	Second Edition, now with value guide.
Pages:	256
Sales rank:	846,720
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

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.