Tobacco pipe
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A tobacco pipe, often called simply a pipe, is a device specifically made to smoke tobacco. It comprises a chamber for the tobacco from which a thin hollow stem emerges, ending in a mouthpiece. Pipes
Peterson System Standard Pipe
Inlayed Pipe Bowl with Two Faces, early 19th century, Brooklyn Museum
Pipes made of bamboo buds (handmade)
Smoking a bamboo-bud pipe
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.