✅ SOLVED Thurs, Fri creek finds: Am I dreaming?

[ptsofnc]

Found the point on Thursday and the pipe on Friday at the same spot in the creek.

 

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[Charl]

Pinch yourself hard, and if neeeded, pour a glass of ice water over your head. If you don't wake up, you're not dreaming, lol. Nice finds. I wonder how old the pipe is?

 

[joshuaream]

Cool finds. Those lines look like the work from the Pamplin Pipe factory in VA, but I don’t recognize the design.

Do you see any seams where two halves were joined? Or do you have a really old one?

 

[ptsofnc]

Cool finds. Those lines look like the work from the Pamplin Pipe factory in VA, but I don’t recognize the design.

Do you see any seams where two halves were joined? Or do you have a really old one?

I don't know much about pipes. But I do throw pottery and I'm familiar with attaching handles, spouts, etc. to clay bodies. I think this is NA. I might be wrong. The mouth hole in the stem end is irregular (i.e. the stem is thicker on one side, thinner on the other side...not perfect). In the 2nd picture you can see where some of the grit (sand or whatever) that NAs tempered their pottery with has eroded out. I don't know. I pretty sure Steven Davis at UNC Chapel Hill could tell me in a second. Might contact him.

 

[Shorewalker]

Very, very cool!

 

[welsbury]

All right. Don't know about pipe but point is a dandy,like the serrations. Great finds both.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Is it possible to get close up pictures of the stem hole and the bowl? It does look like a Pipe from the Pamplin factory like Joshua stated. Does it have a seam? Very cool find. Congrats!!

 

[ptsofnc]

Is it possible to get close up pictures of the stem hole and the bowl? It does look like a Pipe from the Pamplin factory like Joshua stated. Does it have a seam? Very cool find. Congrats!!

I googled the Pamplin Pipe Co and it does look very much like some of their pipes (thanks Joshua). I'll try to post some more pictures later. It is a "2 piece" pipe. The stem and bowl were made separately and attached. The inside of the bowl is blackened with use. Mind boggling to me that I found it.

 

[ptsofnc]

Cool finds. Those lines look like the work from the Pamplin Pipe factory in VA, but I don’t recognize the design.

Do you see any seams where two halves were joined? Or do you have a really old one?

Don't see any seam, but I know clay and can see how the 2 pieces were attached. Do something similar still today when attaching clay handles to mugs.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Very nice. Those are 2 great finds.

 

[SCrocks]

Heck yeah! The creek gave up some good ones.

 

[NCPeaches]

Both are super nice finds and both in the same spot is awesome!

 

[ptsofnc]

The pipe is historic not NA. Identification help from ECU archeologists.... Stub-Stemmed Pipes | Old Salem

 

[joshuaream]

The pipe is historic not NA. Identification help from ECU archeologists.... Stub-Stemmed Pipes | Old Salem

Thank you for posting the follow up on your pipe, I hadn't heard of that particular type of pipe/manufacturing center before so I learned something new.

Still an awesome find, and some great points as well. It would make most of us happy!