Edward Byrd’s Mass-Production of EB Tobacco Pipes for Sale to New Netherland Natives and the 17th Century Delaware River
Author(s): David Furlow
Year: 2022
Summary
This is an abstract from the session entitled "More than Pots and Pipes: New Netherland and a World Made by Trade" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.
Six tobacco pipes--Native, Dutch, and English--excavated at the site of the Printzhof on Tinicum Island, capital of New Sweden Colony in the 1650s, reflects a vibrant international market along the Delaware River. English exile Edward Byrd’s funnel-angled white clay EB pipes in that collection represent (1) the first time a European manufactured consumer products in a traditional Native style specifically for trade with Natives and (2) the first mass-production and mass-marketing of hundreds of thousands of consumer products.
Pilgrim Hall trustee and Journal of the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society Editor David A. Furlow’s presentation will examine the global enterprise Byrd created at his Amsterdam factory, and the Amsterdam origins of the 17th century industrial revolution from 1643-1663, by examining Edward Byrd's EB pipe artifacts in the contextual archaeology of the Indians, English, Dutch, Swedes, and Germans who lived along the Delaware River.
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Edward Byrd’s Mass-Production of EB Tobacco Pipes for Sale to New Netherland Natives and the 17th Century Delaware River. David Furlow. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA. 2022 ( tDAR id: 469425)
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