Civil War Pipe from the 108th Ohio Volunteer Infantry

Sold for $1,725.00 on eBay.

Figural Folk Carved and Painted Maple Pipe

Sold for $2,337.00 at Skinner.

19th Century Folk Art Carved Trade Pipe

Folk Art Figural Carved Burl Pipe

Sold for $1,400.00 (w/o premium) at Skinner.

Circa 1860 Folk Art Catlinite Pipe in the Form of a White Man

Catlinite pipe carved in the form of a white man in 1840s attire resting on his arms and lower back, with his legs raised. The toes point toward the reeded mouthpiece with a poured lead decoration at its top. The legs form the pipe's stem; the upper torso, head and hat form the bowl. The carved details are finely incised. The pipe was probably made by or for David Faribault, Sr. and given by his son, David Faribault, Jr. to Reverend Moses N. Adams, an Indian Agent in Flandreau, South Dakota, in the 1870s.

Collection of Minnesota Historical Society.

Coal Miner Pipe

Folk art carved pipe in shape of a coal miner.

Available at Anonymous Works.

Contortionist Pipe

Available at Anonymous Works.

1885 Folk Art Pipe Head

Dated 1885 folk art pottery pipe head. Huge, fist-sized scale makes it seem less like a practical pipe and more like an end of day whimsey. Found in Ohio.

Available at Anonymous Works.

Pipe Bowl

Circa 1750-1800 carved catlinite Native American pipe bowl.

Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Photo ©2012, Detroit Institute of Arts

Ohio Grotesque

19th century folk art clay pipe with the head of a wild man sticking his tongue out. Found in Ohio.

Available at Anonymous Works.

Reverend H.S. McMurtie Presentation Pipe

Dated 1868 presentation pipe for the Reverend H.S. McMurtie, who was Vice President of Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Maryland. Acquired from family descendents.

Available at Anonymous Works.

19th Century Folk Art Carved Pipe with a Man's Head

A great 1890 folk art carved pipe. Accompanied with an old note: "This pipe carved out of a block of wood by Frank G. Thorpe in 1890. Son of Sarah W. Thorpe. Sister of Mary M. Jordan, born 1829."

Available at Anonymous Works.

"By Touch Alone"

1944 photo of a nude woman pipe carved by blind artist Jack R. Fulton, Westerville, Ohio.

Eastern Plains Carved Catlinite Pipe

Available at Skinner's American Indian & Ethnographic Art sale.

Folk Art Carved Presentation Pipe Presented to General Ulysses S. Grant

Available at Cowan's.

Here's the auction house description:

A massive hand-carved folk art pipe presented to Grant during his Presidency (1869-1877). Overall length 18", and constructed in two parts, consisting of a huge 3.5" diameter and 5" in height briar bowl with attached walnut stem decorated with cross hatching. Two brass fittings further decorate the stem, which bears an old museum accession number. An engraved silver plaque is mounted on the stem of the bowl with To Genl. U.S. Grant / President / Peace. The front of the bowl is hand-carved in a face with beard flowing to the base, possibly intended to represent Grant himself. Applied to one side is a copper cut-out of an eagle with arrows in its talons. On the other side is a cut-out of a cannon on caisson with U.S. flag flying above. The top of the bowl is fitted with brass lid.

Although not a traditional "peace pipe," the form is European, some think it may relate to Grant's Indian policy. Even before taking office, he agreed to turn over the administration of the reservations to religious authorities, taking it out of the hands of the military. Grant's new policy has been dubbed "conquest by kindness," sometimes referred to as the "Quaker Policy" for the group that proposed it to him. Grant was tired of war and said so in his epitaph, "Let us have peace." By the 1880s the reservations were effectively prisons, the people cut off from their traditional lands and resources, certainly "conquered," not necessarily by "kindness."

1860's Folk Art Portrait Pipe of a Civil War Soldier

1860's folk art portrait pipe of a Civil War soldier. The bark covered stem a later replacement.

Ex Collection William Guthman, Westport, Connecticut.

19th Century Pipe with a Figural Carving of a Woman

Available here.