Jamestown unearths 400-year-old pipes for patrons (tobacco pipes)

Associated Press ^ | December 31, 2010 | MICHAEL FELBERBAUM

[decimon]

RICHMOND, Va. – Archeologists at Jamestown have unearthed a trove of tobacco pipes personalized for a who's who of early 17th century colonial and British elites, underscoring the importance of tobacco to North America's first permanent English settlement.

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"It really brings the people back into the picture," said Bly Straube, senior archaeological curator for the Jamestown Rediscovery Project. "We have a lot of artifacts that we can associate with types of people like gentleman or women or children, but to find things like the pipe that bears the name Sir Walter Raleigh, I mean, my goodness. ... It just makes it very tangible and real."

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[decimon]

Yeere ping.

[Cisco Nix]

Smoking Mohawk hashish.

[Larry Lucido]

[decimon]

Sir Walter was a tranny?

[Inyo-Mono]

but to find things like the pipe that bears the name Sir Walter Raleigh, I mean, my goodness. ... It just makes it very tangible and real."

That would go for a nice sum on eBay!

[Larry Lucido]

And not a bad looking one, either!

[bigheadfred]

And not a bad looking one, either!

Someone's had one hit too many off the ole crack pipe there.

[rdl6989]

You might be interested in this.

[Tainan]

"Do you have Sir Walter Raleigh in a can?"

[decimon]

"Do you have Sir Walter Raleigh in a can?"

That's so corn(cob)y.

[mmercier]

I occasionally come by colonial era clay pipes when digging bottles.

The problem with most of them is the fact that they were discarded as the stems get nipped down.

The new ones back then were 6” - 10” long. As they got used the stems shortened, when you burnt your mustache lighting them they got trashed.

Somewhere I have a keeper dug with a full nub, probably about 1850ish. The best places to find good quality pieces are in old outhouse pits, believe it or not.

Now finding that old pipe is going to bother the crap out of me.

[SunkenCiv]

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[bunkerhill7]

They found a Plymouth-bound pipe with Miles Standish`s name scratched out and the name ``John Alden`` carved over it

[bunkerhill7]

They also found a long peace pipe inscribed with the name ``King Philip``

Also found was a pipe etched with ``Q. Elizabeth I`s & Sir Walter`s After-Pipe``

[octex]

Very interesting and I will do some personal research on this.

My paternal great, great... whatever, was in Olde Jamestown in the 1620s. He and wife were among hundreds slaughtered by Pocahantas’ Uncle during an Indian raid. Baby boy survived and continued my family surname in the Colonies and the USA.

[Beowulf9]

Virginia Slims: The ORIGINALS were smoked by MEN!!!