Antique Pipe Collection

Hexagonal Panelled Bowl Porcelain Pipe

• Hand-painted bowl illustrating ladies in different attire
• Brass wind cover

Condition:  Overall good condition.  Some age-related wear to gilding.

This Rare Chelsea Stopper/Tamper from 1770-1780 is of a Turkish columbine

• Illustrated Plate 152, Page 128 in  “300 Years of Tobacco Stoppers”  by Alastair Leslie
• Further examples are in the Schreiber Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Franks Collection of the British Museum. 
• Sold as pair (with 139)

Condition:  Excellent

This is a finely executed hand-painted pipe of a young girl playing a flute.

• Berlin Made

Condition:  Good 

Meissen-type Polychromatic lady in turban 

• Silver removable wind cap cover and silver socket.
• Dates from 1740-1770

Condition:  Good

German Heide Scene Porcelain Pipe

• 19th Century Scene of the town Heide in Germany.
• Hand painted over transfer

Condition:  Hairline crack to bowl.  Smoked. 

Carnival Porcelain Pipe depicting a drunken man drinking from a barrel.

• Wind cap supporting figure of small cat
• Original Cherrywood and Horn Stem.

Condition:  Very Good Condition. 

Risque Hand-Painted Porcelain Pipe

• Metal wind-cap
• Condition:  Good , some wear to inscription. 

German Porcelain Pipe – Farmyard Scene

• Hand-painted
• Unusual shape

Condition:  Small hairline crack.

Unusual Shaped Parionware Hunting Scene Porcelain Pipe

• Herd of Deer resting in woods/boars running.
• Man hunting with a gun
• Brass windcap with resting hound

Condition:  Good

Very Rare 18th Century German Polychromed Head Porcelain Tobacco Pipe 

• Brass fitments
• Hand painted
• c1770

This is a very unusual full figural military Pipe depicting a monkey with a sword in his hand on the back of a rearing horse.

• Believed to be a satirical example of military leader.
• Horses head is hinged.
• Original Stem 

Condition:  Condition good with some Age related wear .  No chips.

• Handpainted Porcelain Bowl depicting the Naked Beauty in the Arms of the Beast.
• Silver Mounts
• Meissen Crossed Swords in the Bowl
• Amber Bit.
• Cherrywood Stems with Horn Mounts
• Leather Velvet Lined Case

This is a finely detailed early hand-painting of  Cincinnati, Ohio in around 1819 .

• Brass Wind-cap
• Painted on Pipe :  Cincinnati
• Maker’s mark:  German 

Condition:  Excellent

•  Scantily-dressed maiden looking at herself in mirror.

• German Flag

• A man holding a dagger and embarassing a maiden.
• Erupting volcano in background
• Silver wind-cap

Impressive Feeding of the Poor Painted Porcelain Pipe

• Schney Factory Porcelain
• Silver Hallmarked Wind-cap
• Painted in the round

Condition:  Very Good 

• Berlin manufactured

Meissen Hand Painted Lady Porcelain Pipe

• Finely painted
• Hand-painted garland lady holding a letter
• Meissen Sword Marks 1840-1870

Condition:  Good 

Early Dresden Scene Porcelain Pipe

• Hand painted in the round
• Depicting Dresden on the River Elbe
• Painted on Pipe:  Dresden

Condition:  Good condition.  One hairline crack (hardly noticeable)

Hand Painted Bad Neuenahr Scene (Spa town in German Bundesland of Rhineland) Porcelain Pipe

• Rare 18th/19th century painting  of Bad Neuenahr.
• Painted on Pipe:  Bad Neuenahr

Condition:  Good 

Sepia Baby Image Porcelain Pipe

• Hand painted gold gilding
• German

Condition:  Good 

Unusual Cologne Cathedral Porcelain Pipe

• Dated 1880
• Painted on Pipe:  Dom Koln, 15 October 1880 (Cathedral Completion)
• Maker’s mark on pipe
• Metal wind-cap

Condition:  Good

This is a diminutive hand-painted cheroot holder depicting a charging cavalry officer

• Some German hand-painted inscriptions 
• Original Cherrywood Stem 
• Unusual military rare item

Condition:  Good 

Das Hermannsdenkmal is a Statue by Ernst Von Bandel located in Detmold in the district of Lippe, Germany. 

• Printed Scene of the monument
• Inscribed:  Das Hermannsdenkmal. 
• 1850-1880

Condition:  Good age related condition. 

• Hand painted over transfer
• Inscription on pipe.

A large fine example of an Artillery German Regimental Porcelain Pipe 1903-05

•  Pipe featuring a Pickelhaube lid with the ball instead of spike used by infantry. 
• Inscriptions on pipe.

Condition:  Age-related, small hairline crack near lid 

This is a decorative military porcelain pipe depicting the construction of  a temporary pontoon across a river.

• Kurhess – Province in East Prussia
• Rough Translation:  Gef Jungerman Pipe.  In memory of my time of service with 3rd Company Kurhess Pion Battalion No. 11 in Hannover.  Munchen 1907-1909
• German Imperial Flag
• Pickle Haube Helmet lid

Small loss to Ribbon.

Condition:  Small losses to porcelain.

This is a rare porcelain Chelsea smoker’s stopper/tamper of a Turkish Man.

• Manufactured in 1770-1780
• Further examples are in the Schreiber Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Franks Collection of the British Museum. 
• Sold as pair (with 138)

Condition:  Has been broken and repaired.

• Probably a Turkish gentleman
• Manufactured 1840-60

Very Rare Meissen Porcelain  Stopper.  Thuringian Gentleman is holding a pipe.

• Meissen , Probably Kloster Vielsdorf.
• Manufactured in 1770
• Marked with Meissen Blue Cross Swords

Condition:   Excellent 

• Probably Meissen
• Similar Illustrated in Plate 158 , Page 133 of  “300 Years of Tobacco Stoppers” by Alastair Leslie.

Unusual and Rare flower painted scenes pipe stopper

• Probably Sevres
• Dated c1880

Condition:  Good condition with age related wear.

This is a Stunning and Rare hand-painted Parian Ware Geisha Pipe

• c1900
• Original Cherrywood and Horn Stem

Condition:  Excellent 

Unusual, Rare and Unpainted Figural Head Parien Ware Pipe. 

• Arabian Man with beard. 
• Original Cherrywood Stem with horn mouthpiece.

Condition:  Very good with very small chip on keffiyeh or kufiya . 

• Impressed Patent Mark
• Original Flexed Stem and Horn Mouthpiece

Unusual Staffordshire Pratt Ware Snake Pipe in the form of a snake holding a figural head.

• Fully Glazed
• Man’s figural head.

Condition:  Repair to snake’s tail

Finely hand painted Moses Porcelain Pipe

• Silver wind-cap
• Depicting Moses with snake entwined on staff

Condition:  Good, some wear to gilding 

1899 Infantry German Regimental Porcelain Pipe

• Double Lion , Crown Armorial
• Acorn relief and ribbon  

Condition:  Good.  Repair to stem of the bowl. Small loss to garland.

1892 Ulanen Uhlan German Porcelain Pipe (Dragoon Cavalry Unit)

• Ulanen – very rare regiment from the Imperial Prussian Army.
• Unique flat top board Pickelhaubes  (where they could carry equipment). 

Condition:  Pipe Bowl is in excellent condition. 

Three Kaiser German Regimental Porcelain Pipe

• Relief has the Blue Cornflower (The favourite flower of Keiser Wilhelm). 
• Enamel accents on their iron crosses and military attire.

Condition:  2 hairline cracks, stem has been repaired in two places. Loss to bowl

• Flowers and Leaves Relief

German Porcelain Country Scene Pipe

• Scene showing hunter bearing gifts
• Hand-painted over transfer in the round.
• Metal wind-cap
• Maker’s mark

Condition:  Good 

• Dated 1903-05
• List of Regimental Names
• Pickelhaube Lid