Clay tobacco pipe makers' marks from London title banner
photograph of detail of pipe mark

Pipemaker's initials IT with tobacco leaves and mullet (star) stamped in relief on the base of the heel of a pipe dated to c 1610-40.

References

Atkinson, D R and Oswald, A, 1969 London clay tobacco pipes, J British Archaeol Assoc 32, 171-227

Oswald, A, 1975 Clay pipes for the archaeologist, BAR 14, Oxford

Le Cheminant, R 1981, Clay tobacco pipes from London and the south east, in P Davey (ed) The archaeology of the clay tobacco pipe VI: pipes and kilns in the London region, BAR British Ser 97 127-172

Moore, J 1979, The remains of a seventeenth century clay pipe kiln at 13 Castle Street, Aylesbury, and the pipes from a probable kiln site at Whitehall Street, Records Bucks 21, 123-132

Tatman, C 1985, Stamps and mouldings on clay pipes found in London, in P Davey (ed) The archaeology of the clay tobacco pipe IX: more pipes from the Midlands and southern England, BAR British Ser 146 (ii), 383-388

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