Clay smoking pipe from Marseille, France, from the excavation of a privy at 1304 Howard Street
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The impressed mark has been restruck, making it difficult to read, but it appears that the Bonnaud firm manufactured this smoking pipe. The Bonnaud firm was a prominent French manufacturer of red clay pipes in the second half of the nineteenth century.
This file appears in: Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Excavation of a Privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle
Archaeology of the Melpomene Neighborhood at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: Excavation of a Privy at 1304 Howard/LaSalle
In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, many of the people who lived in the Melpomene neighborhood of Central City rented their residences with some addresses seeing rapid turnover. …