Featured Interesting clay pipe

I’m not a smoker, but find myself intrigued by this little clay tobacco pipe that I found in a local antique shop. It’s well-made, and “feels” seriously old, but I’ve had zero luck finding a reasonably close match to it online. Any ideas about when it might date to, and where it was made? There is no maker mark on it. Thanks!

 

Nice. I would guess first half of the 19th century, but I am no expert.
Where is the mark, and can you see what it says?

This is the clay pipe collection of the Amsterdam Pipe Museum, you can also search for specific makers:
https://pipemuseum.nl/en/collection...yword=&yearStart=&yearEnd=&brand=&theBest=all

 

Thanks! I will check out the link. As for the maker mark, it doesn’t have one. There was a typo in my original post that I’ve now corrected!

 

Found it, thanks to Any Jewelry! The Amsterdam Pipe Museum says it’s English, 1860-1910.

 

Wonderful! So much for my dating.
It is a great site, very informative.

 

You weren’t far off with the dating. With no maker or registration mark I believe this pipe dates nearer to the 1860 end of the estimate, rather than the 1910 end.

 

Very cool and interesting. Nice find!

 

@David Askett, out of curiosity, what page did you find it on???? I'd gotten to page 11, but nearly choked when I saw there were 144 pages!!!!

 

I just searched under “clay pipes” with the key word “hand”. It was on the first page of results.

 

Thanks....I must have blown right by it!!!!! GREAT PIPE, TOO!!!! Funny..... looks like the hand's holding an ice cream cone.....better not let Biden see it!

 

I was thinking either a torch, or bouquet of flowers. Hadn’t thought about ice cream cone!

 

And yours is more complete!