Meerschaum pipe
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A meerschaum pipe is a smoking pipe made from the mineral sepiolite, also known as meerschaum. Meerschaum is sometimes found floating on the Black Sea and is rather suggestive of sea foam.
Pipe carved from meerschaum – Buda, Hungary, 1791
A smoking pipe carved from meerschaum and unsmoked
A meerschaum cigarette holder from Turkey
Meerschaum pipes may develop rich coloring from both age and use, which cannot be rushed as in this example.
Erica arborea
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Erica arborea, the tree heath or tree heather, is a species of flowering plant in the heather family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa. It is
Meerschaum pipe
…pipes of the day and remains prized to this day, although since the mid-1800s briar pipes have become the most common pipes for smoking. The use of briar wood, beginning in the early 1820s, greatly reduced demand for clay pipes and, to a lesser degree, meerschaum pipes. The qualities of meerschaum were combined…
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Erica arborea, Northwest Africa
Briar pipes on a circular pipe rack