In the Store – Clay tobacco pipes – Votes for Women!

I recently opened a small box marked clay pipes expecting to find lots of broken pieces of stem and found a number of interesting decorated pipe bowls from the 18th to early 20th centuries that had been donated to the Trust many years ago. Among them are decorated bowls from the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos (RAOB), The Royal Inniskillings and one with a football theme showing a foot kicking a ball.

My favourites show human heads and include General Custer and a Napoleonic soldier. One bag contains two bowls depicting Florence Nightingale and Emmeline Pankhurst. Unfortunately their labels have been mixed together and I’m unsure which is which or even if they have been correctly identified. As I’ve been recently reading about the Suffragete movement, I’m most interested in identifying Emmeline Pankhurst. I think she is the one on the left wearing the hat.

What do you think?

EJB

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