A Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes

Author: Benjamin Rapaport
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780916838225
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 254

Book Description
This book considers the history and development of the tobacco-smoking pipe as an art form and is an illustrated guide for pipe collectors. Fact and fancy, history laced with humor, and a chronological collection of pipes are shown in many styles, values, and materials including briars, corn cobs, meerschaum, porcelain, ivory, amber, silver, gold, semi-precious stones, and rare woods.

Collecting Antique Meerschaum Pipes

Author: Ben Rapaport
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN: 9780764307652
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Antique meerschaum pipes and tobacciana are presented in text and nearly 300 color photos, from diminutive cigarette holders to massive sculptured pipes, many made over 150 years ago. No wonder pipe collectors are passionate about these exceptional works of art!

Collector's Guide to Indian Pipes

Author: Lar Hothem
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 308

Book Description
This unique value guide showcases highly personal, well-made smoking instruments. Informational sections on how pipes were made, what to look for and what to avoid when collecting pipes. Other pipe facts and finds are also included. Over 1,000 color photos.

The Pipe Book

Author: Alfred Dunhill
Publisher: London : A. & C. Black
ISBN:
Category : Pipe smoking
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description

Jim Beam Figural Bottles

Author: Molly Higgins
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764321818
Category : Bottles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Here is the reference guide Beamers have been waiting for! The hundreds of decanters in this book are organized by series, including Famous People, Sports, Wheel, Opera, Regal China, and many others, all shown in color with current market values and helpful information for the collector. Both ceramic and glass decanters are covered, along with convention giveaways. With market values ranging from a couple of dollars into the thousands, excellent availability, and a wonderful fellowship of collectors, this is a great hobby even at the ground level.

The Pipe Book

Author: Alfred Dunhill
Publisher: Gramercy
ISBN: 9780517161876
Category : Pipe smoking
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In 1907, in London, Alfred Dunhill, a young man in his early 30s, opened his first tobacconist's shop. It was an instant success, custom blending individual tobaccos as well as carrying smokers' accoutrements. Dunhill began to develop a collection of pipes from around the world, which was then catalogued. From this emerged, in 1924, THE PIPE BOOK, which has rarely been out of print since that date. With black and white photographs as well as line drawings of the vast variety available up to that time, this is a remarkable reference work. Included are: , Primitive makeshift, mound, and earthen pipes , Modern briars, cobs, and meerschaums , Water pipes, Far Eastern, Indian, and African pipes , Pipe mysteries, histories, and rituals As entertaining as it is informative, THE PIPE BOOK is a unique treasure.

Rare Smoke

Author: Richard Carleton Hacker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780931253102
Category : Tobacco pipes
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Camel Cigarette Collectibles

Author: Douglas Congdon-Martin
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
ISBN: 9780887409486
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The first fifty years of Camel advertising and packaging shown in color photos that capture rich images used to promote Camel goods. The captions and informative text explain details and background context.

Claude Raguet Hirst

Author: Claude Raguet Hirst
Publisher: Hudson Hills
ISBN: 9780918881540
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 152

Book Description
This is the first publication devoted to Hirst's oils and watercolors and her transformation of the still life painting through the creation of works that appeal to both men and women, contrasting with her male contemporaries who painted primarily for a male audience. 72 colour& 29 b/w illustrations

The Art of Opium Antiques

Author: Steven Martin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Explores an aspect of opium that has largely been ignored--the art and accoutrements associated with opium smoking that reached a pinnacle in nineteenth-century China and in Chinese communities abroad, from Saigon to Singapore to San Francisco.