18th Century Material Culture

Smoking Accessories
 English
Pipe Cases
English Boxwood, Brass & Pewter Pipe Case
c. 1690 - 1710
(Victoria & Albert)
English Birch, Brass & Pewter Pipe Case
c. 1690
(Victoria & Albert)
English Ebonised Wood & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1690
(Victoria & Albert)
English or Dutch Fruitwood & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1690 - 1720
(Victoria & Albert)
English or Dutch Ebonised Wood Pipe Case
c. 1690 - 1720
(Victoria & Albert)
English or Dutch Fruitwood and Fruitwood & Brass Pipe Cases
Early 18th Century
(Christie’s)
English or Dutch Wood & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1660 - 1720
(Victoria & Albert)
English or Dutch Wood, Bone & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1660 - 1720
(Victoria & Albert)
English or Dutch Walnut, Brass & Pewter Pipe Case
c. 1680 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
English Shagreen Covered Pipe Case
Late 18th - Early 19th Century
(Brunk Auctions)
English Shagreen Covered Pipe Case
Late 18th - Early 19th Century
(Brunk Auctions)
 English Pipe Case
c. 1660 - 1690
(Science Museum, London)
 English Brass Pipe Case
Late 18th Century
(M. Ford Creech Antiques & Fine Arts)
 English Brass Pipe Case
Late 18th Century
(M. Ford Creech Antiques & Fine Arts)
 English Brass Pipe Case
Late 18th Century
(M. Ford Creech Antiques & Fine Arts)
From: “The Brass Book” / Schiffer
 Dutch
Pipe Cases
Dutch Boxwood Pipe Case
“ANNO 1649”
(Christie’s Auction House)
Dutch Boxwood & Silver Pipe Case
c. 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Walnut, Ivory & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1660 - 1720
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Wood Pipe Case
c. 1700 - 1720
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Ebonised Wood & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1660 - 1720
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Ebonised Wood & Brass Pipe Case with Brass Wire Pick
c. 1670 - 1700
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Boxwood & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1680 - 1720
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Walnut & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1700 - 1720
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Fruitwood & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1740 - 1770
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Fruitwood & Brass Pipe Case
1750
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Boxwood Pipe Case
17th Century
(The Curiosity Shop)
 Dutch Fruitwood & Brass Pipe Cases
18th Century
(Private Collection - Top - Brunk Auctions - Bottom)
Dutch Pipe Case with Brass Fittings
c. 1700 - 1775
(Winterthur)
Dutch Wooden Pipe Case with Brass Fittings
Dated 1770
(Brunk Auctions)
Dutch Fruitwood & Brass Pipe Case
1769
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Fruitwood & Brass Pipe Case
1769
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Fruitwood & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1700 - 1740
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Fruitwood & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1700 - 1740
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Brass Pipe Case
c. 1675 - 1699
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Brass Pipe Case
c. 1675 - 1699
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Steel & Brass Pipe Case with Iron Pipe Cleaner
c. 1670 - 1740
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Steel & Brass Pipe Case with Iron Pipe Cleaner
c. 1670 - 1740
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Copper Pipe Case with Brass Fittings
18th Century
(Brunk Auctions)
Dutch East Indies (Indonesian) Ebony & Silver Pipe Case
c. 1670 - 1700
(The Curiosity Shop)
Dutch and Dutch East Indies (Indonesian) Pipe Cases
One Marked Harding Cocker 18th Century
(Private Collection)
German / Austrian
Pipe Cases
German, Austrian or Dutch Birch & Brass Pipe Case
1739
(Victoria & Albert)
German Walnut & Brass Pipe Case
1778
(Victoria & Albert)
German or Dutch Walnut & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1700 - 1730
(Victoria & Albert)
 French
Pipe Cases
French Wood Pipe Case
c. 1730 - 1750
(Victoria & Albert)
French Ebonised Wood Pipe Case
c. 1730 - 1750
(Victoria & Albert)
French Ebonised Wood Pipe Case
c. 1700 - 1740
(Victoria & Albert)
American
Pipe Cases
American Boxwood Pipe Case
c. 1725 - 1800
(Winterthur)
Miscellaneous
Pipe Cases
Fruitwood & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1700 - 1725
(Victoria & Albert)
Fruitwood & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1700 - 1725
(Victoria & Albert)
Fruitwood & Brass Pipe Case
c. 1700 - 1740
(Victoria & Albert)
Fruitwood & Brass Pipe Case
1781
(Victoria & Albert)
Pipe Case with Tamper
18th Century
(Fort Ticonderoga)
Pipe Tampers
 Iron Pipe Tamper
17th Century
(Private Collection)
 Lancashire Copper Alloy Pipe Tamper
c. 1650 - 1800
(Private Collection - Portable Antiques Scheme)
Berkshire Copper Alloy Pipe Tamper with Anti-Papist Medallion
17th Century
(Private Collection - Portable Antiques Scheme)
 Staffordshire Copper Alloy Pipe Tamper
17th Century
(Private Collection - Portable Antiques Scheme)
 North Yorkshire Copper Alloy Pipe Tamper
17th Century
(Private Collection - Portable Antiques Scheme)
German Bronze Signet Ring Pipe Tamper
17th Century
(Victoria & Albert)
 Worcestershire Copper Alloy Pipe Tamper
17th Century
(Private Collection - Portable Antiques Scheme)
 Shropshire Copper Alloy Pipe Tamper
c. 1650 - 1750
(Private Collection - Portable Antiques Scheme)
Brass Pipe Tamper
18th Century
(Private Collection)
English Silver Pipe Tamper with Pricker with Perpetual Dial from London
c. 1775
(Peter Cameron Antique Silver)
 North Lincolnshire Pipe Tamper
18th Century
(Private Collection - Portable Antiques Scheme)
German Porcelain Pipe Tamper
c. 1750
(Tennants Auctions))
Essex Pipe Tamper in the form of Admiral Romney
Late 18th Century
(Private Collection - Portable Antiques Scheme)
English Copper Alloy Pipe Tamper of Two Nude Figures Engaged in Coitus - From Ambleside, Cumbria
Late 18th - Early 19th Century
(UK Detector Finds Database)
Silver Pipe Tamper
Late 18th Century
(Private Collection)
 Shropshire Pipe Tamper
Late 18th Century
(Private Collection - Portable Antiques Scheme)
Carved Bone Tobacco Tamper from the Mill Pond Site, Boston
18th Century
(City of Boston Archeology Program)
 Journal - Georgia 1754

"The raccon is delicate eating, somewhat

tasted like lamb. It's pizzle is very
commonly used as a tobacco stopper"

Raccoon Bone Tobacco Tamper

1724
(unknown)
Pipe Stoppers
English Hard Paste Porcelain Pipe Stopper from London
Chelsea Porcelain Manufactory c. 1750
(Victoria & Albert)
English Hard Paste Porcelain Pipe Stopper from London
Bow Porcelain Manufactory c. 1760 - 1770
(Victoria & Albert)
Smoker’s Companions
Smoker’s Companion Recovered at Jamestown
17th Century
Smoker’s Companion
Late 17th Century
(Private Collection)
Smoker’s Companion Recovered at the Angelica Knoll Site, Maryland
c. 1650 - 1770
(Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland)
Smoker’s Companion Recovered at the Saunders Point Site, Maryland
c. 1770 - 1790
(Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland)
Smoker’s Companion
18th Century
(Fort Ticonderoga)
Possible French Smoker’s Companion
18th Century
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
“American” Smoker’s Companion
1782
(Winterthur)
Smoker’s Combination Companion & Knife
17th Century
(Jay Butler)
Smoker’s Combination Companion & Knife
17th Century
(Jay Butler)
Smoker’s Combination Companion & Knife
17th Century
(Jay Butler)
Pipe / Ember
Tongs
Likely English Wrought Iron Pipe Tongs
Marked 1699
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 Wrought Iron Pipe Tongs
18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 Wrought Iron Pipe Tongs
18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English or American Wrought Iron Pipe Tongs
18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English or American Wrought Iron Pipe Tongs
18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
English or American Wrought Iron Pipe Tongs
18th Century
(Antique Associates of West Townsend)
 Pipe Tongs
c. 1740
(Private Collection)
 Pipe Tongs
c. 1740
(Private Collection)
English or American Pipe Tongs
18th Century
(Skinner Auctions)
English or American Pipe Tongs
18th Century
(Skinner Auctions)
American Pipe Tongs
18th Century
(Brunk Auctions)
 Wrought Iron Ember Tongs
Late 18th Century - Early 19th Century
(Skinner - The Howard Roth Collection)
 Peasant Family in the Kitchen
In the style of David III Ryckaert (1612-1661) Likely 17th Century
 Probable Fireplace Tongs Used as Pipe Tongs

Peasant Family in the Kitchen

In the style of David III Ryckaert (1612-1661) Likely 17th Century
 Wrought Iron Ember Tongs
Late 18th Century - Early 19th Century
(Skinner - The Howard Roth Collection)
 Wrought Iron Ember Tongs
Late 18th Century - Early 19th Century
(Skinner - The Howard Roth Collection)
 Wrought Iron Ember Tongs
Late 18th Century - Early 19th Century
(Skinner - The Howard Roth Collection)
Pipe Kilns
 Wrought Iron Pipe Kiln
Late 18th Century - Early 19th Century
(Skinner)
 Wrought Iron Pipe Kiln
Late 18th Century - Early 19th Century
(Skinner - The Howard Roth Collection)
 Wrought Iron Pipe Kiln
Late 18th Century - Early 19th Century
(Skinner - The Howard Roth Collection)
 Wrought Iron Pipe Kiln
Late 18th Century - Early 19th Century
(Skinner - The Howard Roth Collection)
Wrought Iron Pipe Kiln
18th Century
(Wakelin & Linfield)
Pipe Boxes
American Pipe Box in Brown Paint from New England
18th Century
(Private Collection)
American Maple Pipe Box from New England
18th Century
(Private Collection)
American Pipe Box in Spanish Brown Paint Likely from Pennsylvania
18th Century - Early 19th Century
(Cowan’s Auction House)
American Pine Pipe Box in Green Paint from Deerfield, Massachusetts
c. 1780
(Skinner)
American Pine Pipe Box in Green Paint from Guilford, Connecticut
Late 18th - Early 19th Century
(Skinner)
American Pine Pipe Box in Red Paint Likely from Massachusetts
Late 18th Century
(Brunk Auctions)
American Cherry Pipe Box from Connecticut or New York
Late 18th Century
(Brunk Auctions)
American Tiger Maple Pipe Box
Late 18th Century
(Skinner)
 Dutch
Cinder Bowls
 Figures Smoking in an Inn
by a Follower of David Teniers the Younger c. 1650
(Sotheby’s)
Detail of a Cinder Bowl - Figures Smoking in an Inn
by a Follower of David Teniers the Younger c. 1650
(Sotheby’s)
 The Milkmaid
by Johannes Vermeer c. 1658
(Rijksmuseum)
Detail of a Cinder Bowl in a Foot Warmer - The Milkmaid
by Johannes Vermeer c. 1658
(Rijksmuseum)
A Dutch Farmer Snoking a Pipe
by Jan Ekels the Younger c, 1787
(Städelsches Kunstinstitut)
 Dutch Woman Making Pancakes
byAdriaan de Lelie c. 1790 - c. 1810
(Rijksmuseum)
Detail of a Cinder Bowl - Dutch Woman Making Pancakes
byAdriaan de Lelie c. 1790 - c. 1810
(Rijksmuseum)
 The Sick Woman
byJan Steen c. 1665
(Rijksmuseum)
 The Sick Woman
byJan Steen c. 1665
(Rijksmuseum)
 The Drunken Couple
by Jan Steen c. 1655 - 1665
(Rijksmuseum)
 The Drunken Couple
by Jan Steen c. 1655 - 1665
(Rijksmuseum)
 The Doctor’s Visit
byJan Steen c. 1658 - 1662
(Web Gallery of Art)
 The Lovesick Woman
byJan Steen c. 1659 - 1663
(Staatliches Museum Schwerin)
An Old Lady and a Young Boy
byJan Steen c. 1656 - 1660
(Private Collection)
“The Way You Hear It Is the Way You Sing It”
byJan Steen c. 1665
(Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis)
 A Dutch Girl at Breakfast
by Jean-Etienne Liotard c. 1750
(Sotheby’s)
 A Dutch Girl at Breakfast
by Jean-Etienne Liotard c. 1750
(Sotheby’s)
 Still Life
by Pieter Claesz c, 1650
(Sotheby’s)
 Still Life
by Pieter Claesz c, 1637
(Hermitage)
Spittoons
 English Soft - Paste Porcelain Spittoon
Caughley Porcelain Manufactory c. 1775 - 1778
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Tin Glazed Earthenware Spittoon
1747
(Victoria & Albert)
Dutch Tin Glazed Earthenware Spittoon
Dated 1764
(Victoria & Albert)
 French Hard - Paste Porcelain Spittoon
Locré and Russinger's Porcelain Manufactory c. 1778 - 1789
(Victoria & Albert)
Chinese Porcelain Spittoon
c. 1700 - 1750
(Victoria & Albert)
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