Hateful eight pipes
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As I posted elsewhere, the stems appear to be too ornately curved for the time. They look to be made of plastic, which wasn't invented until 1907. Is there another stem material that could have been used?
Sorry, I don't get the reference. On cursory examination, the comparison could come straight from a Tarantino script.
Before 1907, we had milk paste, rubber, bakelite, and a host of compressed cellulose and ceramic and glass derivatives.
Thanks, Cosmic. I think Tarantino is pretty good about ensuring that artifacts and props are in historical context. Your remark makes the pipes in Hateful Eight same more plausible. I googled tobacco pipes from 19th century and the pipes pictured all has one simple curve if any.
Funny, when I was watching it in theaters, I thought that was an anachronism. But The Tarantino universe kind of plays by its own rules. There's a chance, albeit a slim one, that there might have been a reason for it.
I am going off of memory here, but I think I saw the pipe in question on the trailer for the movie a while back. The one I am thinking of is a Jaeger style pipe, also called by a few different names like Alpine, Tyrolean, etc. There are several very interesting examples of these in the Bisbee Mining Museum in Bisbee, AZ. Apparently they were brought over by German and Austrian miners who settled in the area looking for mining work in the 1800s.
Russells pipe did look like a Wellington, but I thought that vulcanite stems were not available in that era. The movie is set approx 10 years after the end of the Civil War, so say, 1875? But, after reading his history of vulcanite from the Seattle Pipe Club's site, it seems the product was patented in the US in 1851. When pipe stems started using it is not clear. So the stem material could have been authentic.
http://www.seattlepipeclub.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=969877&module_id=16894
http://www.seattlepipeclub.org/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=969877&module_id=16894
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