The times., 1899-11-05
SOME FAMOUS PIPES.
valued by Collectors for Their Benu-
ty or Their Associations.

(From the New York SUM-
When remarkable investments are emu
merated the penny clay pipe sold in Lon
don last week for ST. 600 must not be over
looked This was a certified clay pipe the
property of Christian Hannemann, who
fought with Blucher at Waterloo. The
general was fond of a clay pipe, and on the
morning of the battle gave his hussaT a
box and told him TO keep one alight that
he might take a Whit every now and then
during the engagement. He sat on mis-
grey charger smoking when a cannon Dall
striking near by caused the hussar's horse
TO shy The box fell from the hussaT
hand and the pipes were broken. Blucher,
handing the one he was smoking to Han
nemann, said Keep that alight for few
minutes" After the battle Wellington and
BIucher. riding back over the field, saw the
hussar with bloody cloth around his head
still there keeping the pipe alight. This
was the pipe sold into a famous collection.
In this country also there are pipes Of
enormous value from the collector
standpoint. There is the pipe once owned
by the King of Denmark and aCtlenticat ed
back to the early part OF the sixteenth
century and now the property OF Mrs
Morris, Of Sheboygan. Wis. a pipe OF Abb
duI Hassan Selim, Pasha Of Belgrade,
given in 1888 to Joseph Sandor de Payer
a Hungarian in the Austrian army, was
carried by his grandson 10 Baltimore
where it is still retained. II is large
meerschaum weighing more than pound
studded with turquoise and diamonds and
valued at 81 000 Another valuable p p Is
owned by NJ Addington, of East Aurora,
y. Y. Il is of meerschaum, twelve inches
long and one and a half deep and repre-
sents an old tree stump with young
branches budding from it. The stem Is
fiattened TO represent meadow on which
two horses are grazing. II took the artist
three years to make this pipe, and $3.50
has been offered for il. The pet Of Mas
sau Street collector is seven inches long
by three and d half broad and weighs two
and a half pounds. The carving shows the
wooing of Paris and Helen, 1t was found
in the Crimea in the tent of Russian
general when the Russians retired before
the allied armies.
When il came here it was badly rubbed
by campaign use, but its beauty was such
that it was recarved, a very rare operation
with pipes, and il is now valued at $4,000.
Another pipe owned by the late Ogden
GOelet, a great collector of pipes, shows
pair of human figures twined round the
stem, every bone and muscle being ana
tomically correct. It was carved on his
death bed by a French artist as a means
10 pay his burial expenses and il paid them
a hundred times over Bernard Sedelsky,
Of Hartford, Conn. owned meerschaum
several hundred years old. the bowl carry
ing a rudely carved figure of Columbus,
with the date 1492 a d. on the side. with
palm trees. The shape is very primitive
and he has refused $500 for IT,
Clay pipes have always had favor in this
country with collectors. One collector paid
SO for a clay pipe smoked by President
Cleveland in the Adiroudacks in 1888.
Mitchell T. King. of Flat Rock, n. c.. ex-
changed pipes with Bismarck sixty years
ago as German students do, and the pipe
Of the future chancellor is in his possession
today. II has fine porcelain bowl bearing
a portrait Of Bismarck on the front as ne
appeared in those days. Everyone knows
the story Of Bismarck's pipe, the despair
Of all collectors. He bought it from a gyp-
sy, who told him TO take care Of it, as
whenever anything serious was going to
happen, the pipe would tell him. After
many years the pipe broke and the Fran
O-Prussian war followed At the second
break the old chancellor was retired from
harness. Then the pipe was put away, and
1t is still intact. Sherbourne Bros, Of
Maiden. Mass, have Bohemian pipe,
which is copper lined, holds a pound of to-
bacco and is fitted with a sling to go
around the neck when being smoked. Ii
is carved to represent tree, covered with
knots, each one Of which has a human
face.
The peace pipe smoked by Powhatan and
John Smith is said to be owned by Mrs.
SaiIie Epes Redd Of Ridsewood, Of Henry
county Va. i was accepted as genuine for
exhibition al the Worlds Fair II is shap-
ed like a tOmahawk. Of stone, with two
stem holes, apparently indicating that both
contracting parties smoked at the same
time. In brisr pipes ex-Assembyman
John Martin, of this city. has a fine collec-
tion. The pipes show portraits of Lincoln,
Grant Alexander Hamilton. Washington,
and others. The finest specimen was pick
ed up under a bench on the Battery.