Clay tobacco pipes and why you want one
From the early days of tobacco smoking, clay tobacco pipes have played a key role. North American native peoples fashioned pipes from many materials – stone, wood and also clay. Some examples of native American clay pipes are shown here. The early European settlers saw tobacco as a one of the many interesting New World plants and right up there with adding the newly discovered tomato to the bacon and lettuce sandwich, pipe and cigar smoking became the rage in the early 17th century prompting the rise of a clay pipe manufacturing industry. The earliest clay pipes were likely replicas…