People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — Some Ancient Pipes. [ARTICLE]

Some Ancient Pipes.

An antiquarian “find” that will interest every devotee of the “weed Nicotian” was made in London the other day, when workmen, who were excavating for the cellar of the new patent office building, unearthed a vault filled with old clay pipes. There were “church wardens” in abundance in a heap, and many of unique Cromwellian and seventeenth century shapes.