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« on: September 26, 2009, 08:24:12 pm »
I have this old pipe that my friend gave me to clean. All i know about it is that it was purchased in San Francisco from a man near height ashbury and the man claimed it was an antique from china. To me this makes sense because San Fransisco has a large Chinese population. The pipe has some worn down engravings, the engravings wrap around. There is a what i think is a female deer then an old man with a dragon head staff, he is wearing robes and has a very long beard, then what looks like behind him in the scene is a swan. Near the mouthpiece of the pipe is a line of Chinese letters on both sides, one side is worn so i cant tell if they're identical but the line goes down toward the bottom. I don't have a camera that can get pictures of the engravings so I could only get pictures of the whole pipe. If anybody can provide any information or clues as to when and where this was made and what it was used for that would be greatly appreciated.
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