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== English clay pipes == | == English clay pipes == | ||
[[Image:pollockclaypipes1.jpg|thumb|Fox & Grapes, [[Pollock Clay Pipes]]]] | [[Image:pollockclaypipes1.jpg|thumb|Fox & Grapes, [[Pollock Clay Pipes]]]] | ||
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== Trivia == | |||
=== Public pipes === | |||
<blockquote><q>"Pub Pipes", the long stemmed clay pipes, were essentially public pipes used in pubs (public houses) that were given to patrons to use. After a patron used it, the tip (and I dont know how much of the tip this would be) was broken off so the next person could use it. This way, you werent smoking someone elses spittle along with the tobacco. I dont know if this was due to health concern (although I am sure it helped to prevent spread of germs) or just because it may seem gross to put a pipe in your own mouth after having been in someone elses.</q><ref>Posted by an unknown author on [[Talk:Materials_and_Construction]].</ref></blockquote> | |||
It is unclear if this is just a myth or a hard fact but Ivor Noël Hume says: | |||
<blockquote><q>There are thousands of pipe fragments found in Williamsburg. An early explanation for their ubiquity had it that in colonial-era taverns pipes passed from mouth to mouth, but that in the interests of hygiene the previously lip-gripped section was broken off and thrown away. There is no documentary support for that notion, but it is known that used pipes were placed in iron cradles and heat cleansed in bake ovens before being issued to the next round of smokers.</q><ref>[https://www.slaveryandremembrance.org/Foundation/journal/Winter03-04/pipes.cfm Hunting for a Little Ladle, Tobacco Pipes] by Ivor Noël Hume</ref></blockquote> | |||
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