Clay Pipes Be Aware of dubious sellers

[The_budweiser]

Beware some big money has been paid for so called original pipes,but they were still being manafactured up to only a few years ago.

 

 

Boxing is well recorded on clay pipes,and many of them can actually be attributed to particular pugilist or fights throughout the second part of the nineteenth century.

 

 

The first fight to be depicted commemorates the first International Championship ever staged,the great bare-fist fight between John Camel Heenan of the USA and Tom Sayersof the United Kingdom.The fight took place at Farnborough in Hampshire on the 17th April 1860.The contest was declared a draw after forty two rounds,lasting two hours and twenty minutes.One pipe has a boxer in the ring depicted on each side of the bowl with the name J,C,Heenan and T,Sayers respectively above.Another pipe ,given the title of ' Pugilistic Encounters' was registered by William Brown of Mile End in Middlesex on the 20th Febuary 1860.One of the many souvenirs produced in anticipation of this famous fight.The bowl was designed like a gnarled tree trunk and had two pugilist depicted fighting on the stem of the pipe,this was the very first boxing pipe to be registered.

 

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Written by Dave Allen