In our next number we will give an account of the method of manufacturing the ordinary clay tobacco pipes, with a description of the furnace used to bake them. Watch-Classes—How they are Made A ...

Clay pipes were ubiquitous in the earlier centuries ... sailors smoked from these pipes hundreds of years ago as even still smoking helps take away boredom on the sea.

The pipe's clay may well have been carried by barge on ... I like the irony of a man who had presumably chosen the anti-slavery motif smoking tobacco grown by slaves in Virginia.