A Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes

Ben Rapaport (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

1998 | Second Edition, now with value guide.
Schiffer Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7643-0596-2 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Zusatzinfo	236 b/w photos/32 color illus.
Verlagsort	Atglen
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	503 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber
	Technik
ISBN-10	0-7643-0596-4 / 0764305964
ISBN-13	978-0-7643-0596-2 / 9780764305962
Zustand	Neuware