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of the pii)e 111 most cases. Sometimes a lily or a cbieken was the cou- 

 ventioiial mark by which the ware or maker couhl be known in trade. 

 For uearly three centuries Broseley, in Enghind, has been one of the 

 jiriucipal seats of the manufacture of iiipes.' 



Pritchett, in Ye Siiiokiana, ilhistrates a sturdy German smoking a 

 pipe, taken from an illustration at Frankfort-ou-the-Main, dated 1010, 



Fiir. 73 



Fix. 71. 



Figs. 71-7:!. 

 IKON, IsnON/E, AND CLAY PIPES. 



showing the smoker to be holding u]) the rectangular trade pij^e, with 

 his head thrown back as though he was smoking a tubular pipe, which 

 would indicate that the practice at that i)eriod was novel. 



Guda, near Kotterdam, Sevres, in France, and Dresden, in Germany, 

 have been the sources of supply in their respective countries. "In the 

 neighborhood of Bath (England) pipes were apparently made in the 



' E. A. P>arl)pr, Aiiti(iuity of the Tobacco Pijie iu Europe, Americau Antiquarian, 

 II, p. 3. 



