Smoking pipe
Adolph Frankau & Co. Ltd
Category
Wooden objects
Date
1904
Materials
Horn, briarwood, silver
Place of origin
Birmingham
Order this imageCollection
Nuffield Place, Oxfordshire
NT 1651731.3
Summary
Smoking pipe. Trumpet shaped briar wood bowl, horn stem, silver ferrule hallmarked for Adolph Frankau & Company, Birmingham with date letter for 1904. Also marked 'BBB' for 'Britain's Best Briar'.
Provenance
Collection William R. Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, by bequest to Nuffield College, University of Oxford, 1963, by transfer to National Trust, Nuffield Place, 2011.
Marks and inscriptions
stamped ; on silver connecting piece ; [hallmark] ; ;
Makers and roles
Adolph Frankau & Co. Ltd, factory