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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 354046, member: 5833&quot;]Hi Everybody,&nbsp; Thanks for your thoughts &amp; observations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just so, &amp; I am going to use sepiolite now because it is easier to type.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The varnished appearance is one of the things that was leading me to think the pipe was some type of plant material.&nbsp; I can only compare it on appearance with pictures of others &amp; this is the feature that most convinces me it is sepiolite.&nbsp; The book I gave you a whiff of above explains how these pipes develop this patina without the internal material also being stained, another thing that puzzled me.&nbsp; Here are some other old ones:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]120385[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]120386[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]120387[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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