Clay pipe from Dublin

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Found this in a local river..

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[Chef Geoff]

Nice and unusual find, just a bit of useless information for you.... as a big proportion of the navvies who helped build the canals and railways were from Ireland many manufactures started marking their items with Irish symbols such as the harp or shamrock they also displayed place names such as Cork, Limerick or as yours Dublin so there's a good chance your's was a marketing ploy rather than actually from the Emerald Isle.

[HAMMERRHOID]

I had a good collection of clay pipes , and I donated them to a chap who lives at Norton St Philip near Bath who is writing a book on clay pipes . He told me that there were only 3 makers in the area in the 15th/16th century as tobacco was very expensive and one of these places was Norton St Philip as it was on the main coaching route and a cross roads where two coaching routes crossed I think that the oldest Public House in England is there and has featured in TV programs and Films

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Well spotted   

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I was originally bottle digging and noticed it lol, didn't find any intact bottles but my dad found 6 and a jar a bottle saying Thomas Niagara Works Swansea, another saying something about Llanelli but a y not a i (Llanelly) and a medicine bottle from Ammanford

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All interesting stuff 

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All interesting stuff  

yea but I would love to find one of these.,..
              
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[Christoph1945]

Nice and unusual find, just a bit of useless information for you.... as a big proportion of the navvies who helped build the canals and railways were from Ireland many manufactures started marking their items with Irish symbols such as the harp or shamrock they also displayed place names such as Cork, Limerick or as yours Dublin so there's a good chance your's was a marketing ploy rather than actually from the Emerald Isle.

Hi Geoff,
               do you recon this one was actually made in Dublin? Found it last Wednesday on my building project permission.

[Chef Geoff]

Hi Chris more than likely though nothing is known of the maker, yours did read

O'Brien
Mayo St
Dublin

and it thought to be a more recent example late 19th-early 20th century and so well after the navvy era

[Christoph1945]

Thanks Geoff,
                         that is "spooky"! Whilst I was detecting a little, old, guy came over to the perimeter fence and asked if I had found anything. We chatted for a while and I learned that his first name was Brendan and he was from County "Mayo". Folks from my paternal grandparent's side of the family originated from County Mayo. We shared a giggle over the 1926 Irish penny that I had found, with him calling it a "pinny" and the hen on the coin became a "hin"! Going back on Wednesday to spend the whole day detecting and hopefully make some better finds.

                          It's interesting how the writing is placed on the side of the bowl that faced the smoker. One can just imagine the smoker taking a break, sitting back, and dreaming of home. ( Pipe dreams! ) Little did they know, that the toxins in the tobacco was going to turn their dreams into cancerous nightmares. 

[Christoph1945]

Hi Chris more than likely though nothing is known of the maker, yours did read

O'Brien
Mayo St
Dublin

and it thought to be a more recent example late 19th-early 20th century and so well after the navvy era

                            Just had a peep on tinternet and they do say that even my pipe was probably made in Manchester. There is an interesting video on youtube showing the making of clay pipes in Ireland.