crazy old pipe found on beach

[donkarlos]

So I goes out to try me new Sand Shark at the beach. It's not ridiculously trashy, but I'm finding the bobbie-pins, bottle caps, a euro cent, a key and a few cents here and there. The tide is in, so not so much wet sand exposed. I'm liking it because the SS doesn't get screwy on the rocks and salt water.
Then I see this pipe bowl. It's easier to find the stem pieces they used to break off if your at a colonial site, but this is a bowl, blended in with the shells of the same color.
I find it hard to believe its as old as it looks, but here it is..

 

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[kuger]

well,when there is no more stem to break off...like your example........it served no further purpose

 

[Bavaria Mike]

You have the maker's mark so it is possible to figure out the exact date. I only have a few intact bowls, hope to get a whole pipe someday. HH and nice find, Mike

 

[donkarlos]

Looks like there is a T on the left side and a D on the right side..if one were looking down the stem whilst puffing furiously on a smooth blend of tobacky. 1800 or so I guess

 

[kuger]

Page 6 - Pipe makers' marks - Artifacts - Colony of Avalon

 

[Terry Soloman]

Congratulations!!!

 

[donkarlos]

Good link - thanks

 

[RelicHunter97]

Ah cool! I have one of those TD marked bowls (well, half of one at least)

 

[ticm]

So I goes out to try me new Sand Shark at the beach. It's not ridiculously trashy, but I'm finding the bobbie-pins, bottle caps, a euro cent, a key and a few cents here and there. The tide is in, so not so much wet sand exposed. I'm liking it because the SS doesn't get screwy on the rocks and salt water.
Then I see this pipe bowl. It's easier to find the stem pieces they used to break off if your at a colonial site, but this is a bowl, blended in with the shells of the same color.
I find it hard to believe its as old as it looks, but here it is..

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Got some in here.

 

[hamiddetecting]

Nice!!

 

[donkarlos]

Great info, all. Seems like TD was a common pipemaker, then. Thought from some of the readings it seems there may have been a couple TD makers. The earliest in the late 1700's and the later in the early 1800's.
My theory is that the East Coast storms must have eroded some land and set this bowl to sea. It's great there's even a periwinkle shell stuck to it!