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Tobacco pipe stem decorated with fox and grapes and crest.

Earthenware, ball clay | Object #: 1694477

5/64'' bore diameter

Tobacco pipe with stem border, possibly made in Leicester.

Earthenware, ball clay | Object #: 1694498

5/64'' bore diameter

Tobacco pipe bowl marked with ÒTDÓ inside a rouletted circle.

Earthenware, ball clay | Object #: 1694523

Silver-alloy plated copper alloy button face with stamped floral and geometric design.

Copper/Copper Alloy | Object #: 1785147

This is the metal face, or front portion, of a two piece button. In this style of button, a disk of lathed bone with a beveled edge often served as a button back. The face of the button was commonly fashioned from a sheet of thin metal, usually a variety of copper alloy, which would be crimped ...

Bowl fragment with stamped "WM" with botanical inside half-circle.

Earthenware, ball clay | Object #: 1806563

This is a fragment of a white clay tobacco pipe, the bowl of which is stamped with the initials “WM” inside a cartouche. Smoking tobacco was an activity that permeated the lives of eighteenth century people. Individuals as diverse as planters and enslaved laborers, men and women, adults and chi...

Tobacco pipe bowl fragment with partial stamped cartouche and W[?].

Earthenware, ball clay | Object #: 1806605

This is a fragment of a white clay tobacco pipe, the bowl of which is almost certainly stamped with the initials “WM” inside a cartouche. Smoking tobacco was an activity that permeated the lives of eighteenth century people. Individuals as diverse as planters and enslaved laborers, men and wome...

Tobacco pipe rim and bowl fragment with stamped "WM" with botanical inside half-circle.

Earthenware, ball clay | Object #: 1806612

This is a fragment of a white clay tobacco pipe, the bowl of which is stamped with the initials “WM” inside a cartouche. Smoking tobacco was an activity that permeated the lives of eighteenth century people. Individuals as diverse as planters and enslaved laborers, men and women, adults and chi...

Tobacco pipe rim and bowl with stamped "TD" with botanical inside rouletted circle.

Earthenware, ball clay | Object #: 1806750

This is a fragment of a white clay tobacco pipe, the bowl of which is stamped with the initials “TD” surmounted by a botanical element inscribed within a rouletted circle. Smoking tobacco was an activity that permeated the lives of eighteenth century people. Individuals as diverse as planters a...

Stamped copper alloy button face with star, geometric, and floral design.

Copper/Copper Alloy | Object #: 1833654

This is the metal face, or front portion, of a two piece button. In this style of button, a disk of lathed bone with a beveled edge often served as a button back. The face of the button was commonly fashioned from a sheet of thin metal, usually a variety of copper alloy, which would be crimped ...

Daniel Parke Custis wine bottle seal.

Non-Lead | Object #: 1840926

This fragment is a wine bottle seal, bearing the initials of DP Custis. Wine bottles such as this were primarily imported from Britain and Europe in the eighteenth century, and were commonly used to consume cider, beer, wine or liquors in colonial households of all statuses. Seals such as these...