Woodsy
Here's a photo of the few clays I mounted for display once setting up my basement.
The pipe center top, is of the comic character Ally Sloper from the 19 century though it and most of the pipes shown were made from old moulds by a firm known as 'Pollocks of Manchester' who made them through the 1960's.
Terranova47
NY
Fascinating Terran. I fine collection and all intact! Amazing. All my bits are broken pieces no doubt pulverised by endless ploughing. Our local field is now tilled and seeded so I'll have to wait another year until its ploughed again and reveals more clay pipe bits. I've heard of Ally Sloper but get it mixed up with Ally 'Oop. Sloper must be one of the earliest comic characters and that makes that pipe one of the earliest pieces of merchandising!
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