Dutch clay pipes

Hitz53

Does anyone remember the clay pipes that came out of the Netherlands? I don't mean the old type clay pipes with the red painted bit that Ichabod Crane or Santa Claus smoked, but the more modern Dutch clay pipes with a glazed exterior and a double wall much like the Peltier pipes. Often they were decalled with some sort of fake blue Delft image of a windmill or a Dutch girl, but sometimes one was lucky enough to find them without the decoration. A rubber grommet was used to connect the stem and the shank. They were easily found in the 1970s and 1980s and then seem to have disappeared. They were good smoking pipes if one was a slow smoker and they actually colored over time. They came in about a half dozen shapes.

xDutchx

I have a few of these in the Christmas editions from the early to mid 80's. The smaller one in the lower pic is a Dutch shoe, similar in design to the vest pocket pipes made of briar.

ghostsofpompeii

I always thought those pipes were made out of porcelain, I had no idea they were clay pipes. I've always associated clay pipes with those long stemmed tavern pipes.. 

xDutchx

@ghostsofpompeii, There are many different varieties of this pipe. You can google "Delft Pipe," and see lots of examples, including lots of decanters and humidors as well. Here is the Pipedia link on these pipes.

https://pipedia.org/wiki/Zenith