The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-22

Valued by Collectors for Their Beauty OF
Their Historical Assoclations.

When remarkable investments are enumerated
the penny clay pipe sold in London last week
for $1,000 must not be overlooked This was
certified clay pipe the property Of Christian Hanno
mann who fought with Butcher at Waterloo.
Tho General was fond Of clay pipe and on the
morning OF the battle gave his hussar box and
told him to keep one alight that he might take a
Whit every now and then during the engagement
lie sat on his gray charger smoking when a can
non ball striking near by caused the hussnrs
horse TO shy. The box fell from the hussars
hand and the pipes were broken. Butcher. hand
ing the one he smoking to Hanncmann, said;
Keep that alight a few minutes" After the
battle Wellington and Butcher riding back over
the field the hussar with bloody cloth around
his head still there keeping the pipe alight This
was the pipe sold into famous collection.
In this country also there are pipes OF enormous
value from the collectors standpoint There liz
the pipe once owned by the King OF Denmark
and authenticated back to the early part OF the
sixteenth century and now tho property of Mrs
Morris, OF Sheboygan. Wis A pipe Of Abdul
Hassan Sclim, Pasha Of Belgrade, given in 1888
70 Joseph Sander de Player, Hungarian In the
Austrian army. was carried by his grandson to
Baltimore where IL Is still retained. II is large
meerschaum weighing more thaD pound. stud
ded with turquoise and diamonds and valued at
Sf,OOO Announcer NdludDlc pipe IL (WHICH ny W.
Addington Of East Aurora, N. Y. II is OF mecr-
schaum. twelve inches long and one and half
deep, and represents an old tree stump with
young branches budding from It. The stem is
fattened to represent meadow on which two
horses are grazing II took the artist three years
u make this pipe. and $3.50 has been offered for
it. The pet OF a Nassau street collector is seven
inches long by three and half broad and weighs
two and half pounds The carving shows the
wooing Of Paris and Helen. 1t was found In
the Crimoa in the tent Of Russian General when
the Russians retired before the allied armies
When II came here IL was badly rubbed by cam
paign use, but its beauty was such that 1t was
recarved. very rare operation with pipes, and
il is now valued at $4,000 Another pipe owned
by the late Ogden Goelet great collector of pipes
shows pair Of human figures twined round the
STEM every bone and muscle being anatomically
| correct II was carved on his death bed by a
French artist means to pay his burial ex-
penses and it paid them hundred times over.
Bernard Sedesky of Hartford. Conn. owned a
| mecrschaum several hundred years old, the bowl
| carrying rudeiy carved figure Of Columbus,
| with the date 1902 A. ID on the side, with palm
trees The shape is very primitive and he has
refused $500 for it
Clay pipes have always lad favor in this country
with collectors One collector paid $40 for a clay
| pipe smoked by President Cleveland in the Adj.
rondaSks in 1888. Mitchell r King, of Flat
Rock, \, C., exchanged pipes with Bismarck
! sixty years ago as German students. do, and the
pipe OF the future Chancellor is in his possession
| TO day 1t has a fine porcelain bowl bearing a
portrait of Bismarck on the front as he appeared
| in those days. Everyone knows the story OF
Bsmarck,s pipe, the despair of all collectors. He
bought it from gypsy, who told him 10 take care
| Of it, whenever anything serious was going to
| happen, the Pipe would tell him. After many
| years the pipe broke. and the Franco Prussian
war followed. At the second break the old Chan
cellor retired from harness. Then the pipe
was put away, and it is still intact Sherbourne
! Bros. of Maiden, Mass, have a Bohemian pipe
which is copper lined. holds pound of tobacco
and is fitted with a sling to go around the neck
when being smoked 1t is carved TO represent
tree covered with knots each one of which has
| human face
| The peace pipe smoked by Powhatan and Johr
| Smith is said TO be owned by Mrs Sallic Epes
| Reid, OF Ridgcwood Of Henry county, Va i
was accepted as genuine for exhibition at tn,
| Worlds Fair. II is shaped like tomahawk, o.
stone, with two stem holes, apparently indicating
| that both contracting parties smoked at the sam,
| time. In briar pipes eXAsscmblyman Johr
Martin Of this city has fine collection. TIL,
| pipes show portratsof Lincoln, Grant Alexander
| Hamilton. Washington, and others The fines
| specimen was picked up under bench on tn,
| Battery,