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“The meerschaum pipes are varied, curious, and some of them very costly. One, the bowl surrounded with an elaborately carved group of figures, is priced at no less than 135 guineas. …Another displays an ambitious attempt to represent the Light Cavalry charge at Balaklava; the troopers are not very good representatives of English Hussars and Lancers, and it is not quite clear which side is getting the worst of it; but much ingenuity is certainly displayed in carving the meerschaum clay into such forms” (“Pipes at the International Exhibition,” ''The Practical Magazine'', Vol. 2, No. 7, 1873). This pipe was carved by Frederick Follit, Oxford Street, London, Exhibitor No. 4588, at London’s International Exhibition of 1873. | “The meerschaum pipes are varied, curious, and some of them very costly. One, the bowl surrounded with an elaborately carved group of figures, is priced at no less than 135 guineas. …Another displays an ambitious attempt to represent the Light Cavalry charge at Balaklava; the troopers are not very good representatives of English Hussars and Lancers, and it is not quite clear which side is getting the worst of it; but much ingenuity is certainly displayed in carving the meerschaum clay into such forms” (“Pipes at the International Exhibition,” ''The Practical Magazine'', Vol. 2, No. 7, 1873). This pipe was carved by Frederick Follit, Oxford Street, London, Exhibitor No. 4588, at London’s International Exhibition of 1873. | ||
"He [Kaldenberg] exhibited some thirty pieces in all, one of which, a superb pipe with a group representing ''Macbeth’s'' encounter with the witches on the heath composed of five figures two of which, ''Macbeth'' and ''Banquo''''',''' are mounted, excited universal admiration. It also has a figure of Shakespeare seated in an arm-chair on the lid or cover. Ten thousand francs were offered for this pipe, in Paris, but were refused by the exhibitor, as he wanted to exhibit it in this country on his return, having had no opportunity to do so previously, as it had been completed only a few days before the sailing of the United States steamer which carried the goods of the American exhibitors” ("MEERSCHAUM PIPES. ''HOW THEY ARE MADE, AND THE SCIENCE OF COLORING THEM PROPERLY," The New York Times'', July 27, 1874). | |||
“Austria has no rival in this class of work. The amber specimens are principally mouth-pieces for pipe-stems, and the meerschaum work consists chiefly of ornamental pipes, which are often very artistic and of great variety. They represent heads of famous personages, types of the various races and nationalities of Europe, and animals, birds and fishes in the simpler styles, while the more elaborate have bowls richly carved with hunting or historical scenes or comic representations of episodes in domestic life” (James D. McCabe, ''The Illustrated History of the Centennial Exhibition''…1876). | “Austria has no rival in this class of work. The amber specimens are principally mouth-pieces for pipe-stems, and the meerschaum work consists chiefly of ornamental pipes, which are often very artistic and of great variety. They represent heads of famous personages, types of the various races and nationalities of Europe, and animals, birds and fishes in the simpler styles, while the more elaborate have bowls richly carved with hunting or historical scenes or comic representations of episodes in domestic life” (James D. McCabe, ''The Illustrated History of the Centennial Exhibition''…1876). | ||