Collecting Antique Meerschaum Pipes: Miniature to Regal Sculpture (A Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Collecting Antique Meerschaum Pipes: Miniature to Regal Sculpture, 1850-1925 is an illustrated handbook to the smoking paraphernalia made of a mineral with the intention of has been ancient since at least the early 1700s and which is, today, still a standard material. In the last decade, a surge in interest in tobacco collectibles has already spawned loads of books on cigarette lighters, cigar-pack marks, and snuff boxes and bottles. This book now comes at a time when antique meerschaums are compelling center stage, and collecting them is like buying blue-chip stocks. Ben Rapaport is one of the single just any globally recognized authorities on the subject of antique pipes, and in this, his second book published by Schiffer, he has made a powerful and influential tour de force in speech and picture with the intention of evidences why so loads of pipe collectors have a passionate passion for these exceptional works of art. Ranging early very diminutive and expressive cigarette holders to massive sculptured pipes, these instruments were produced by m
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