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THE CLAY TOBACCO-PIPE IN BRITAIN
Alexander Sharp of Chick Lane in London, issued a token in
1(567 showing three pipes and a rose4, and pipes initialled A.S.
with a rose have been found on the Thames foreshore. This
suggests that Sharp, undoubtedly a tobacconist, may also have
been a pipemaker, or else that pipes with his initials moulded on
them were made specially for sale in his shop, or tavern.
Fig. 2
Ben Bradley, tobacconist, smoking in 1737.
From a wood-cut of 1737: the shape of the pipe is a continuation of the
Dutch tradition, but is clearly not the illustration of any actual pipe.