Smoking Accessories: A Collector's Guide (Miller's Collecting Guides)

Sarah Yates

This practical, accessible guide is part of a series aimed primarily at the budding collector. The wide range of smoking accessories covered will give the collector an excellent overall picture of what is available. Wares are organised by type such as tobacco boxes, novelty vesta cases, cigarette packets, matchboxes, snuff boxes and Art Deco lighters. Invaluable information is given about what makes certain items particularly desirable, as well as what may reduce the value of the wares. This easy-to-use guide is a perfect starting-point for the enthusiast. Throughout the book Fact Files provide a wealth of hints and tips on collecting - topics covered include manufacturing techniques, condition and care, identification and how to pick out the best examples. - Features Fact Files highlighting key information on collecting - Includes full-colour photographs of over 150 collectable pieces, each accompanied by a price range - Packed with invaluable tips on how to price a piece and how to pick out the best examples

Collectible Pipes (The Collectible S.)

Jean Rebeyrolles

Pipes have been around about as long as human civilization itself. But it isn't only smokers who enjoy them! They come in a tremendous diversity of shapes, sizes, and colours - not to mention the variety of materials used to make them, from clay to boxwood to porcelain, from corncob to briar to meerschaum. This volume features pipes from all over the world: carved and moulded in a vast array of forms, including classical models, some depicting human faces, others animals, arms, legs, shells, trains, airplanes, and a wide selection of "out-of-the ordinary" examples. Some are such amazing works of sculpture that you can almost forget their original function. This is a perfect source on the topic for all those interested in pipes, whether antique or brand new, moulded or carved.

The Complete Guide to Collecting Antique Pipes

Ben Rapaport

This is the first American book to consider the history and development of the tobacco-smoking pipe as an art form and is an illustrated guide for pipe collectors. Here the author has assembled fact and fancy, history laced with humor, and a chronological collection of pipes. The accompanying text explains pipe styles, materials, and values. Besides present-day briars and corn cobs, pipes can be found made of meerschaum, porcelain, ivory, amber, silver, gold, semi-precious stones and rare woods. Craftsmen have combined imagination, whim, and fantasy to create pipes of fine artistic value.

The Pipe Book

Alfred Dunhill, Richard Dunhill

Alfred Dunhill's passion for perfection led him to develop a pipe collection so that he might become a better tobacconist - the more he knew about pipes, the better he could serve his pipe-smoking customers. From this collection emerged an archivist and a catalogue, and from the catalogue evolved The Pipe Book - a thorough exploration of nearly every type of pipe known to man, with in-depth explanations of the pipes' origins, structures, and uses, as well as fascinating anthropological discussions that span the entire world and hundreds of years. Included here are everything from primitive makeshift, mound, and earthen pipes through models of ivory, clay, and porcelain to the modern briars, cobs, and meerschaums. And just as fascinating are the vivid and insightful discussions of the significance of smoking in different cultures, from the ancient Mayans to twentieth-century Europeans and everything in between.

Snuff (Shire Album)

Ursula Bourne

This Album traces the history of snuff and snufftaking, at its peak in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, explains how snuff was processed and describes snuffboxes and other collectables associated with the habit.

Tobacco, Snuff Boxes and Pipes

Lutz Libert 1984

Translated from the original German, this is a handsome slipcased historical overview of tobacco and tobacco collectibles that is indeed worthy of inclusion in your library.  The perspective, as with many fine tobacco books, is European and focuses on better quality items, but the pictures are gorgeous and lots of interesting text is crammed into its modest 140pp.

Compacts and Smoking Accessories

Roseann Ettinger

This book gives a brief history of cosmetics and the early vanity cases and compacts designed to carry them, and also a brief history of tobacco and its historical significance leading to the manufacture of popular smoking accessories. This fascinating collection of antique compacts and smoking accessories contains hundreds of full color illustrations and includes a price guide. This book has been written to provide guidance for collectors and a documented reference for antiques professionals, but it is sure to prove interesting for everyone.

Clay Tobacco Pipes (Shire Album S.)

Eric Ayto

Although clay tobacco pipes are still made today their place in history is the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Until about 1890 the clay pipe was as common-place as the tankard of ale and the mug of tea, but competition from the briar pipe, the cigar and the cigarette brought the clay-pipe industry to an end about 1900. These old pipes are now being eagerly looked for an picked up by the hundreds, and the enthusiastic finder is confronted with many questions. How old is it? How was it made? Where was it made? The aim of this book is to answer these questions and to record the part the humble 'clay' once played in our society.