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SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Details
SEVEN AUSTRIAN MEERSCHAUM PIPES OR CHEROOT HOLDERS
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Comprising one modelled as an elephant head in a case labelled 'FR. RABE. BRUXELLES' another modelled as a jester in bicorn hat, another as a goat, a cheroot holder in a tooled case dated 1848 and inscribed 'A.M. HENRI VIEUXTEMPS', a Nubian boy's head pipe, a skull and hand pipe and a damged cheroot holder, all in cases
elephant pipe 7 in. (18 cm.) long (7)
SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
Comprising one modelled as an elephant head in a case labelled 'FR. RABE. BRUXELLES' another modelled as a jester in bicorn hat, another as a goat, a cheroot holder in a tooled case dated 1848 and inscribed 'A.M. HENRI VIEUXTEMPS', a Nubian boy's head pipe, a skull and hand pipe and a damged cheroot holder, all in cases
elephant pipe 7 in. (18 cm.) long (7)
Literature
The goat cheroot holder illustrated in Ben Rapaport, Collecting Antique Meerschaum Pipes, Schiffer 1999, p.131
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