A Pint and a Clay Please

[madox07]

I was at an antique store the other day and I saw this painting, and couldn't help noticing the patrons in this tavern drinking and smoking their clays. On a closer look I noticed the pipe racks on the walls in the background ... so I guess you could order a pipe along side a drink back in the day, huh? Just like your beer stein was cleaned after you had your drink, so that the next guy can have one as well, the pipe got the same treatment ..

 

[highwaycobbery]

Actually back then they were communal pipes, that’s why the stems were so long, after you smoked it the next guy just broke a bit of the stem off and continued the pipe. After you were done, hang it up for the next fellow.

 

[mikethompson]

Please tell me you got that painting @madox07 , very nice! Perfect for a study or home bar.

 

[madox07]

Please tell me you got that painting @madox07 , very nice! Perfect for a study or home bar.

Unfortunately not, the author "C. Cap" :

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The asking price for this one was EUR 2000. While I am sure it may be a good price, in comparison to quotas on the above website, for example, it is a bit too rich for my blood. I will admit, though, it is indeed a good painting - thematic for us.

 

[crawdad]

My Dutch translator gives me inn in the thirsty deer.

 

[sablebrush52]

Clays being fireproof, it was easy to clean one up by setting it in the burning logs in the fireplace. I wonder how much an inn charged for one of the house clays or was it included in the price of a bowl of tobacco?

 

[madox07]

Actually back then they were communal pipes, that’s why the stems were so long, after you smoked it the next guy just broke a bit of the stem off and continued the pipe. After you were done, hang it up for the next fellow.

It makes sense ... I can't imagine the halebardier watching the card game doing his rounds with a large stem pocking out of his vest ... so if you want a smoke, go to the local PUB, have a drink and a smoke at the end of your shift.

 

[kcghost]

Smoking pubs dot com!!

 

[Lawyer66]

Actually back then they were communal pipes, that’s why the stems were so long, after you smoked it the next guy just broke a bit of the stem off and continued the pipe. After you were done, hang it up for the next fellow.

This is quite an interesting piece of history.

 

[verporchting]

Check this video out around 1:39 where the patron is brought a clay pipe in an old pub. Great stuff.

 

[Lyle b]

Check this video out around 1:39 where the patron is brought a clay pipe in an old pub. Great stuff.

Wow that was so good but in a way sad as we have lost so much of the humble pleasures of the past to the ever present so called conveinence of the present .

 

[trouttimes]

I love the vid. I was born 100 years too late I think or maybe I just relate to a past life.

 

[Tommy Boy]

Interesting old time video and looks like a wonderful eavning out. They deffinatly knew what customer service was back then.

 

[condorlover1]

I have posted this before but I am reliably informed by my late Father that his Grand Father could for a shilling (Twelve Penny's) or some figure like that could get bread and cheese, pint of beer, clay pipe and tobacco. As the man said on the video you were buying a penny worth of smoke so the numbers are about right. Remember before we went decimal in the U.K there were 12 penny = 1 shilling and 20 shilling = 1 Pound.

 

[autumnfog]

Amazing painting and video.
I'd rather spend time in such an old inn than a shopping mall of today.

 

[mikethompson]

I was born 100 years too late

I think so too sometimes but then I think if I were born in 1881 I probably wouldn't have made it to the ripe old age of 39.

I'd rather spend time in such an old inn than a shopping mall of today

a shopping mall is probably the last place I'd like to be these days

 

[scloyd]

Nice painting. If my memory is correct, I believe someone here on the forum posted pictures of a steakhouse in New York that has clay pipes all over the place...ceiling and walls...I mean like everywhere.

 

[autumnfog]

a shopping mall is probably the last place I'd like to be these days

Corona or no Corona, I avoid those places.

 

[mikethompson]

Corona or no Corona, I avoid those places.

I hope curbside delivery stays even after covid, that way I'll never have to go in a mall again

 

[scloyd]

Now that you can buy Cinnabon at your local grocer (frozen), no need to go to the mall.