THE DATING OF CLAY-PIPES
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Yarmouth:
T. PAGE .................... 1812-1831
I. TAYLOR .................. 1844-1853
I. HARPLEY ................ 1796 onwards
Bury St. Edmunds:
S. REFFELL ................ 1849
Sudbury
D. PETLEY .................. 1853
Wells (Norfolk):
M.W......................... 1850
EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY MAKERS:
Colchester:
Jos. F. JENNINGS .......... 1902
London (Highgate):
John HARRISON ............ 1902
St. Albans:
Geo. KIFF .................. 1902
Broseley:
W. SOUTHORN .............. to 1961 (still active)
It will be seen that all the earlier pipemakers have been
grouped in the above lists into twenty-year periods: that is not to
say that none of them made pipes a few years on either side of
the limiting dates, but with other evidence giving a date to a pipe
in the appropriate quarter-century, it should be possible to get a
little nearer still if it bears initials of a maker listed above, or at
least to confirm the dating in those cases (unfortunately frequent)
where many makers used the same initials about the same time.
In order to avoid having to look through the whole of the above
chronological groups to find the probable period of any given pair
of initials from a pipe, the foregoing initials and names have been
combined and rearranged alphabetically for ready reference in the
table on pp. 32 and 33.
Do not be disappointed if no marks reward your careful
scrutiny of foot, bowl and stem: less than ten per cent of clay-
pipes will be found to be marked so that their makers could be
identified.