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The Complete Guide To Collecti
Benjamin Rapaport
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Description for The Complete Guide To Collecti
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 236 b/w photos/32 color illus. BIC Classification: TDP; WC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 256 x 178 x 16. Weight in Grams: 732.
This is the first American book to consider the history and development of the tobacco-smoking pipe as an art form and is an illustrated guide for pipe collectors. Here the author has assembled fact and fancy, history laced with humor, and a chronological collection of pipes. The accompanying text explains pipe styles, materials, and values. Besides present-day briars and corn cobs, pipes can be found made of meerschaum, porcelain, ivory, amber, silver, gold, semi-precious stones and rare woods. Craftsmen have combined imagination, whim, and fantasy to create pipes of fine artistic value.
This is the first American book to consider the history and development of the tobacco-smoking pipe as an art form and is an illustrated guide for pipe collectors. Here the author has assembled fact and fancy, history laced with humor, and a chronological collection of pipes. The accompanying text explains pipe styles, materials, and values. Besides present-day briars and corn cobs, pipes can be found made of meerschaum, porcelain, ivory, amber, silver, gold, semi-precious stones and rare woods. Craftsmen have combined imagination, whim, and fantasy to create pipes of fine artistic value.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764305962
SKU
V9780764305962
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99-2
About Benjamin Rapaport
Ben Rapaport has been an avid pipe collector for more than twenty years and is the author of A Tobacco Source Book (1972). His interest has led him to acquire a great library for tobacco research, which he shares in the form of a chapter of recommended reading. Included are his suggestions for repairs and restoration to pipes.
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