snuff was ground by private hands. Here are tobacco- 

 stoppers, in quaintest forms and richest ornament of steel 

 and silver, and some made out of Spanish dollars, too. Here 

 is man's first rude mode of procuring fire, the long hard drill, 

 turned quickly by clever hands on a softer piece of wood, 

 till' the lower piece was charred and burned, and fire was 

 gained. Here are nearly every variety of fire-making tools, 

 down to the pistol tinder boxes, so famous in Birmingham a 

 century ago, with choice examples of Spanish and Dutch and 

 Russian make. Here are tongs, and knives, and strikers, for 

 pocket use — all connected with the use of tobacco during 

 the last two hundred years. 



The porcelain pipes of Sevres, and Saxe, and Berlin, and 

 Capo di Monte, and Furstenburg, and Copenhagen, and a 

 score of other makes, are rich in every variety of decoration 

 and every style of artistic skill. The English pottery pipes 

 are wonderful also — long, tortuous, snake-like pipes, "loudly" 

 coloured and highly glazed, from Worcester, a century ago — 

 one with a bowl for each day of the week ; and dingy old 

 brown glazed pipes of Brampton ware, with a dozen choicest 

 specimens of the delicate white on a rich blue ground, with 

 which Wedgwood has associated his name for ever. These 

 by scores make up a most interesting collection of pipo- 

 ceramic work. 



Tobacco pouches of all ages and places, from beaded 

 samples of American Indian, to rough leather of Northern 

 Europe, and exquisite lac and japan, of the East ; from 

 gorgeous hues of Syria and Persia, to simpler forms, of 

 Iceland and Greenland, have been crammed into a case 

 where brilliancy of colour rather than richness of style can 

 be seen. 



The European examples include, of course, every known 

 form of pipe — Austrian and Styrian, in rich, grotesque, and 

 quaint fantastic forms of unbarked stems ; Italian pipes of 

 delicate ivory, exquisitely and elaborately carved, and of 

 steel, charmingly inlaid and damascened ; German pipes of 

 agates and similar choice stones, with meerschaums by the 

 score ; Finland pipes, embroidered with brilliant beads ; 

 Swedish pipes, of iron from the Dannemora mines ; a fine 

 Swedish Rune pipe ; Italian pipes of the choicest Venetian 



