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A vintage Calabash tobacco smoking pipe
Secondhand
R299.00
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13 Jun 20 06:37
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Condition
Secondhand
Location
South Africa
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Product code
20201637
Bob Shop ID
470578970
A Calabash pipe is a pipe for smoking; it has a curved stem and a large bowl made from a calabash gourd. The pipe is in good used condition, great to add a collection of pipes. The pipe is around 14cm.
Calabash Gourds (usually with meerschaum or porcelain bowls set inside them) have long made prized pipes, but they are labour-intensive and, today, quite expensive. Because of this expense, pipes with bodies made of wood (usually mahogany) instead of gourd, but with the same classic shape, are sold as calabashes. Both wood and gourd pipes are functionally the same (with the important exception that the dried gourd, usually being noticeably lighter, sits more comfortably in the mouth). They consist of a downward curve that ends with an upcurve where the bowl sits. Beneath the bowl is an air chamber which serves to cool, dry, and mellow the smoke. There are also briar pipes being sold as calabashes. These typically do not have an air chamber and are so named only because of their external shape.
A calabash pipe is rather large and easy to recognize as a pipe when used on a stage in dramatic productions. Although a British newspaper cartoon of the early 1900s depicts the British actor H. A. Saintsbury as the Great Detective smoking what may be a calabash pipe, its now-stereotypical identification with Sherlock Holmes remains a mystery.
