Rainy day project...

JOETHECROW · Oct 1, 2010

Laur and I spent some time checking out the "Mudlarks" site awhile back....very cool setup...at least they give the diggers a legal avenue to dig....I suppose it's the honor system when it comes to telling them what was found? Anyhow, here are a few of the pipes we find from time to time...(The brown-ish colored one being the most recent,...which features a snake along the stem/bowl)....

SAbottles · Oct 2, 2010

Joe, yes it is an honour system, but the museum people do come & check the stalls where these people sell, and also they do "police" one another. Tony told me of at least one digger who had kept things back, was reported and lost his licence.

SAbottles · Oct 2, 2010

As pipes go, this is my pride and joy: a French Gambieri figural pipe of President Paul Kruger, president of the old Transvaal Republic. I dug this some 10 feet down in a lump of clay. I bashed it carelessly against my leg to shake the clay off and nearly freaked when I realised what I was bashing ! -

SAbottles · Oct 2, 2010

The photo doesn't really do it justice, it is a remarkable likeness of the old bugger. (I can be a bit rude, because co-incidentally he was my great-great grand uncle !!)

JOETHECROW · Oct 2, 2010

Way cool pipe....any family albums where you could audio-visually compare likeness? Just kidding,but that IS a great pipe.

SAbottles · Oct 3, 2010

We both have beards, Joe, but that's as far as it goes!![

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