Hi Adam,

Many thanks for looking it up.

Becki

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Hello

This is called a Chinese water pipe. It was designed along the same principles as the traditional and well known hookah, but its small size meant that it was hand held and portable. An opium and tobacco mixture may have been smoked originally.

Attached are a few pics from the pages of 'The Pipe Book' by Alfred Dunhill (1969)

Adam

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Hi,

This lovely object was bought in over the weekend. It’s made from possibly electroplated silver and has removable tweezers and has what looks like to be Chinese hallmarks.

Thing is, it doesn’t look like anything we have in the collections? Has anyone come across one of these?

Many thanks

Becki

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