Can You Help Me ID My Old Clay Pipes?

[Sam Gamgee]

These were given to me for Christmas a few years ago. I don't know anything about them, nor did the giver. I think they are clay but they might be meerschaum. I've never tried to smoke them (especially since the stems seem to be broken off). They are in a nice glass display case with some decorative greenery. They make for a cool display and conversation piece. I thought maybe someone here could help me ID them.

 

[anotherbob]

well they're clay and lots of people made clay.

 

[anotherbob]

the stamping is either where they were made or who made them. But the thing is they where considered highly disposable so while maybe well made and with pride, there was no intention of them standing the test of time let alone the test of making it to next year.
Personally I would smoke them just to see how older clays smoke from when they really were made for smoking on the daily instead of now where they're more a novelty and have zero competition in their class.