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<p>[QUOTE="blooey, post: 3680667, member: 12007"]Nope, sorry, these things only started appearing for sale in the late 1990s. They are fantasy items designed to sell to the west, under the guise of "oriental mystique" ... they probably aren't even any good to smoke tobacco or weed in and if you smell yours, it more than likely hasn't got any residue or ash in it, because it was never used as an actual pipe. Completely a late 20thc invention passed off as something old.</p><p><br /></p><p>My city was one of the primary Chinatowns on the west coast in the 19th and 20th centuries. We have museums full of artifacts from those days and just north of us is a mining town that was almost totally occupied by Chinese immigrant workers in those eras. No pipe like yours has ever been found. The artifacts cover both the rich and poor and the opium pipes found vary in quality but not in design. Not one of them resemble yours.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="blooey, post: 3680667, member: 12007"]Nope, sorry, these things only started appearing for sale in the late 1990s. They are fantasy items designed to sell to the west, under the guise of "oriental mystique" ... they probably aren't even any good to smoke tobacco or weed in and if you smell yours, it more than likely hasn't got any residue or ash in it, because it was never used as an actual pipe. Completely a late 20thc invention passed off as something old. My city was one of the primary Chinatowns on the west coast in the 19th and 20th centuries. We have museums full of artifacts from those days and just north of us is a mining town that was almost totally occupied by Chinese immigrant workers in those eras. No pipe like yours has ever been found. The artifacts cover both the rich and poor and the opium pipes found vary in quality but not in design. Not one of them resemble yours.[/QUOTE]
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