Stunning Antique Meerschaum Hand Holding Pipe Bowl london When I first spotted it

When I first spotted it

it wouldn't be very much work to sew the edges under to finish it off

but I personally love the fact that they are now entirely archaic unless one happens to have a 19th c

teaching us how to draw faces

Then cute blue shorts and white sneakers curled around the edge of a grassy green painted wooden mound nailed to a flat base

Stunning Antique Meerschaum Hand Holding Pipe Bowl london When I first spotted itI find this late 19th century pipe bowl such a beautiful thing, all the better for being freed from the pipe stem, such that it can be displayed with this beautiful hand draping over top of the bowl. It was quite finely carved of the mineral sepiolite, also known as Meerschaum, which was prized as the perfect material for making pipes as it provided a cool, dry, flavorful smoke. Meerschaum is white to begin with, and from what I understand its color