BROSELEY SALOP.
The various stamps & names of early makers of Tobacco Pipes are most satisfactorily corroborated by the Parish Register and the families seem to have gone on prospering, but the sickle “of Old Time” has been put in & . & old things have passed away making room for new. The Four stamps given on the opposite Page are amongst the Earliest known. & of great interest. The quality of the Clay must have attracted the makers to that spot—after the introduction of Pipes to London, which had a Pipe maker’s Company .A·D. 1619 & still continues establishments at Bow.. The “Old Cock” Tavern in Fleet Street had its own Token & its own Pipe.
and old London as revealed in digging old foundations has yielded a great harvest of Pipe produce.. The museum at Guildhall has a very good collection. The “Churchwarden” Clay was the Pipe of the early part of this century & is still in the Country. It was considered right always to have a clean pipe hence they were stacked together in a double ring & sent to “The Bake-house” for Purification. The “Irish Dudean” originated the rich “old clay” most probably & the Scotch followed with Cutties, & The French with “Fiolets” bien “Cullottées”—of Forty years ago. “Milo” in the Strand was the man for “Colouring Clays” which he made his Specialty.
