Pamplin Pipes in Wyoming

Summary

Several white, cream, tan, red, brown, gray, and black clay [terra cotta) elbow pipes or pipe fragments representative of the exploratory, fur trading, westward immigration, and pioneer homesteading periods have been found in Wyoming. Information to identify the origins, models, and dates of those 19th Century clay trade pipes is relatively unavailable. However, Raymond C. Dickerson, owner of the Pamplin Pipe Factory, Pamplin, Virginia, has shared a great deal of information about elbow clay trade pipes created in Virginia. Dickerson also graciously supplied 41 different Pamplin Pipes for a comparative study, and the result is this report.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Wyoming Archaeologist 1999

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Contact(s): Marcia Peterson

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