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[[File:Rapaport-Dawes-Warren-12.JPG|thumb|600px|center|Courtesy, collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk]] | [[File:Rapaport-Dawes-Warren-12.JPG|thumb|600px|center|Courtesy, collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk]] | ||
Unfortunately, the body of the pipe is missing, but if this inner bowl is an accurate provenance, then there’s some evidence that a British Captain Warren briar pipe preceded the production of the Lyon pipe by many years. What is not common knowledge is that a French clay pipe may have been the inspiration for the British Captain Warren. | Unfortunately, the body of the pipe is missing, but if this inner bowl is an accurate provenance, then there’s some evidence that a British Captain Warren briar pipe preceded the production of the Lyon pipe by many years. As advertised in London’s ''The Sphere. An Illustrated Newspaper for the Home'' in the early 1900s, the little-known Patent “Urn” Pipe was quite similar in design to the Captain Warren. What is not common knowledge is that a French clay pipe may have been the inspiration for the British Captain Warren. | ||
“The Captain Warren pipe line is inspired by the Nordic custom of creating a double chimney pipe. Original project by Leonardo Da Vinci” [tabaccheriatoto13.com]. And from a pipesmagazine blog on the Ser Jacobo Leonardo pipe, I excerpt the following: “In 1982 Professor Enrico Fabri discovered a four page document which contained several inventions which seemed like something created by Leonardo da Vinci. … Leonardo da Vinci devised a twin-walled terracotta pipe which was cooled by the air circulating in the cavity.” I consider both statements rather far-fetched assertions. Although neither comment suggests that the Captain Warren is descended from a 16th–Century da Vinci clay pipe, the connection is dubious. | “The Captain Warren pipe line is inspired by the Nordic custom of creating a double chimney pipe. Original project by Leonardo Da Vinci” [tabaccheriatoto13.com]. And from a pipesmagazine blog on the Ser Jacobo Leonardo pipe, I excerpt the following: “In 1982 Professor Enrico Fabri discovered a four page document which contained several inventions which seemed like something created by Leonardo da Vinci. … Leonardo da Vinci devised a twin-walled terracotta pipe which was cooled by the air circulating in the cavity.” I consider both statements rather far-fetched assertions. Although neither comment suggests that the Captain Warren is descended from a 16th–Century da Vinci clay pipe, the connection is dubious. | ||