Unique Smoking Pipe - Vintage Tobacco Pipe made of Sea Foam - Hand-Carved Pipe - Block Sea Foam - Top Quality Sea Foam shops Pipes - Collectible

A Meerschaum pipe (Sea foam pipe) is a smoking pipe made from the mineral sepiolite, also known as meerschaum.

Sepiolite, also known as meerschaum (meaning "foam of the sea"), is a soft white clay mineral, often used to make tobacco pipes (known as shops meerschaum pipes).

When smoked, meerschaum pipes gradually change color, and old meerschaum pipes will turn incremental shades of yellow, orange, red, and amber from the base on up.

When prepared for use as a pipe, the natural nodules are first scraped to remove the red earthy matrix, then dried, again scraped and polished with wax. The crudely shaped masses thus prepared are turned and carved, smoothed with glass-paper, heated in wax or stearine, and finally polished with bone-ash.

The pipe is not used. Hand-carved. Rare smoking pipe.

Origin: Turkey. Length: 5.5 inch. / 14 cm. Height: 2.5 inch. / 6.4 cm.

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