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Another photo, more comments please
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Andrew | Report | 22 Aug 2009 17:12 |
This is a photo of an old chap, with a very distinctive pipe. I wonder if anyone can help me age the old man, and if they have any clue as to origin of such a pipe. |
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Porkie_Pie | Report | 22 Aug 2009 17:48 |
It's an old clay pipe vey common in the 1800's and early 1900's most working men used to snap off the stem as they were to long and got in the way whilst they worked |
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lancashireAnn | Report | 22 Aug 2009 18:20 |
In the Elizabethan times clays were quite graceful with thin bowls and long stems. The Dutch redesigned these clays by enlarging the bowl and lengthened the stem and came to be known as the Alderman and was officially introduced by William II around 1700, the Alderman was adopted by the English and was graced with a curve to the stem and called "Yard of Clay" or "Churchwarden" as it's better known as today. The purpose of the long stem was to allow the smoker to rest his hand and bowl on the arm of the chair, the small knob on the bottom of the bowl was to stop the hot clay bowl from burning the chair arm, the knob became more of an aesthetic part of the shorter pipes rather than a requirement in later times. The Churchwardens were in vogue with the upper-classes of the Elizabethan times, the more common man would smoke a short pipe, often made shorter by snapping the end of the stem off due mainly to the "shared house pipes" in the ale houses, these pipes were there for the enjoyment of the customers and by snapping the end off separated themselves from the previous smoker. |
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lancashireAnn | Report | 22 Aug 2009 18:26 |
I brightened the photo up a little and he has a v interesting shirt/Waistcoat but can't quite make it out. He is wearing a long jacket and has what looks like a squashed bowler in his other hand. |
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Andrew | Report | 22 Aug 2009 21:15 |
I am quite good with digital image manipulation, but never know which bit of the photo is important, and where to maximise the contrast. |
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lancashireAnn | Report | 22 Aug 2009 22:00 |
I agree he does look older than 63 and the beard looks earlier Victorian. Or am I trying to convince you of who you would like to think it is! Pity there is no photographer's name. |
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KathleenBell | Report | 22 Aug 2009 22:31 |
I'd say he was in his seventies. |