FRENCH PIPES. 



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her hand, and clasps an urn enwreathed with funereal 

 drapery inscribed Mortc pour la Patrie. It was exe- 

 cuted by Fiolet of St. Omer, one of the best designers 



of pipe-bowls. In another we see a Paris ouvrier en 

 blouse reposing along the pipe-stem, and pointing to the 

 bowl inscribed Suffrage universel* Two really good 

 designs exhibit French and Italian liberty ; the former 



has a noble figure supporting the Victor's wreath in the 

 right hand, and the flag inscribed Liberie in the left, 



* Dumeril of St. Omer issued a black pipe at this time. On one side 

 of the bowl is the capped flag inscribed Liberie, £galite, 1848. On the 

 other, a barricade, surmounted by cannon, barrels of gunpowder, &c, 

 inscribed Republique Franpaise, 23, 21 Fevrier. 



