World's smallest pipe?

[mawnansmiff]

Hello folks, I picked up the below pipe last week at a local antiques fair for a paltry £2. It is made entirely of horn/antler so am unsure as to whether it could actually be smoked though it is fully drilled for such.
At just a tad over 9cm long and a bowl of circa 8mm wide I wonder if I have the smallest pipe ever made!

Thoughts anyone?
Regards,
Jay.

 

[doctorbob]

There is a dunhill doll house pipe out there that is properly drilled and is a fraction of the size of yours. I have a 'Tom Thumb' that has a shorter overall length, but the bowl is bigger than yours.
Doc

 

[mso489]

Don't tell Harris; he don't like them little girly pipes. My sister brought me a very small pipe, tiny bowl and very short stem, from Brazil, with a screen at the bottom of the bowl, probably intended for other than tobacco. I have one or two Group 1's, which actually work for flake or plug (for a 20-30 minute smoke) and a Group 2 and 3, also useful, although most of mine are Group 4 or larger. This one is a very small bowl, but the stem is pretty large (as small pipes go). I think you could have a good sit-down smoke with flake, no problem.

 

[jensen]

I have a doll house pipe with white dot. 55 mm long 17 mm heigh 7 mm bore in the bowl. I have smoked it, a very short smoke

 

[pitchfork]

The diameter of the bowl is just about right for a cigarette. I suspect it's a cigarette holder.

 

[fafnir]

Two minute smoke?

 

[jensen]

Two minute smoke..............hardly as far as I remember.

You can take the bowl apart from the mouthpiece, but careful - the peg is very thin.

 

[mawnansmiff]

Well that's interesting, i've never heard of a dollhouse pipe!
Pitchfork I doubt it' a cigarette holder as the bowl is more oval than round though I am aware that many moons ago oval cigarettes could be bought.
As for being a 2 minute smoke, I would wager you would be lucky to get one tug on it afore your tobacco was all used up, so tiny is the bowl.
Regards,
Jay.

 

[pitchfork]

Are you sure it's not meerschaum? :mrgreen:

 

[samcoffeeman]

I also own a tiny pipe. The bowl might fit a cigarette into it. Definitely smaller than the one above.

 

[papipeguy]

Very interesting find.

 

[deathmetal]

When the shell of the house was finished, it was moved (the wall of Lutyens’s office in Apple Tree Yard, St James’s, London, had to be torn down to get it out) to Lutyens’s house in Mansfield Street. There it was to stand, taking up half his drawing-room, for nearly two years. The elite of the nation’s talent poured through the door: Sir Alfred Munnings (1878–1959) with his miniature painting of the King’s charger, Delhi; Alfred Dunhill (1872–1959) with his tiny cigarettes, cigars, pipes and tins of 'My Mixture’ – tobacco custom-made for the King. Ursula Ridley, Lutyens’s daughter, told me of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859–1930) arriving with his diminutive, hand-written and leather-bound story How Watson Learned the Trick. Queen Mary, enjoying every development, came to Mansfield Street several times.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/interiors/8072968/Lutyenss-fabulous-dolls-house-for-Queen-Mary.html

 

[peteguy]

One of mine - I have 3 small pipes. This one is the smallest. The draw is a bit tight.

 

[drwatson]

I may be a play/opera pipe. I the good old days they had pipes that would be used for the short break in between acts of "live" entertainment. Dunhill made some, so I'm sure that others did as well.

 

[mothernaturewilleatusallforbreakfast]

I saw a lot of diminutive pipes at the show this weekend. I was kind of surprised how many there actually were. I noticed a couple of the vendors had more tiny pipes than they did regular pipes. It was really fun to walk by a table with a pipe the size of a cantaloupe and then a table with pipes the size of a pocket knife.

 

[deathmetal]

If you have a small pipe, try one of the pumps. I'm told 1-3 inches per week!

 

[tarheel1]

The shuttle pipe is a miniature and perfectly made.pipe on a larger pipe.

 

[deathmetal]

That's awesome looking! Glitch in the Matrix type stuff.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I don't want to brag, but I bet I could smoke it for an hour.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

I don't want to brag, but I bet I could smoke it for an hour.