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Clay pipe dating is the act of dating clay tobacco pipes found at archaeological sites to specific time periods. Pipe bowl found in Kent , southeast England. The circular hole through the tube is slightly off-centre and measures 3.36mm in diameter, and would suggest a rough date of c.1610 AD.
The American Tobacco Company's assets were split off into: American Tobacco Company, the existing R. J. Reynolds, Liggett & Myers, and Lorillard. The monopoly became an oligopoly . [ 21 ] The main result of the dissolution of American Tobacco Trust and the creation of these companies was an increase in advertising and promotion in the industry ...
Pages in category "Tobacco companies of the United States" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 1856, John Middleton opened a tobacco store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Later, his family added more stores and a mail order business. [1] In 1950, the company began making its own pipe tobacco, and by 1959 sold its stores and concentrated on making and selling tobacco. [2] In 1960, John Middleton Co. moved to King of Prussia, Pennsylvania.
American tobacco customs began to switch from the earlier pipe smoke to the cigar as mentioned earlier, as well as the great American western icon of the spittoon, which was linked to chewing tobacco. These latter two were considered a more coarse form of taking tobacco and, as such, were deemed very "American" in nature by Europeans as ...
Eduard Bird (or Edward/Evert Burt; c. 1610 – 20 May 1665) was an English tobacco pipe maker who spent most of his life in Amsterdam. His life has been reconstructed by analysis of public registers, probate records, and notary and police records, by historians such as Don Duco and Margriet De Roever from the 1970s onwards. [1]
The Missouri Meerschaum Company is a tobacco smoking pipe manufacturer located in Washington, Missouri.It is the world's oldest and largest manufacturer of corncob pipes.. The company was founded in 1869 when Dutch-American woodworker Henry Tibbe began producing corncob pipes and selling them in his shop.
North American natives along the East coast traditionally made their tobacco pipes from clay or from a type of pot-stone (lapis ollaris), or else serpentine stone. [7] In the Upper Midwest they made use of the red pipestone or catlinite for the same, [ 8 ] a fine-grained easily worked stone of a rich red color of the Coteau des Prairies .