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The world of antique pipes is a fascinating place full of surprising materials, shapes, styles, sizes and configurations and, depending on where the pipes were produced, can be encountered in a broad range of embellishments and accents in precious and semi-precious stones, silver and gold filigree, amber, ivory, horn, bone, and tortoiseshell.

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Baronne de Rothschild Collection, Bibliothèque de Grasse, France
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Ulmer Pipes
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Japanese kiseru (tobacco pipe)
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Pipe Oddities
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