A brass-mounted treen pocket case for a clay pipe, late 17th century, 23cm long. For a silver-mounted example of very similar form, see Holland, Margaret, Illustrated Guide to Silver, 1978, p 209
A Georgian silver-mounted yewwood
pipe tamper in the form of a female leg with court-style shoe, 85mm
A Georgian silver pipe tamper with windows showing "Sun Rise", "Sun Set" and "Signes", the reverse with calendar, 83mm high
A Georgian silver pipe tamper/wafer seal, with perpetual calendar, the seal unscrewing to reveal a toothpick, 65mm high
A William III oval pressed horn tobacco box with push-on cover bearing the arms of The Lumber Company, a gentlemens' convivial society, unsigned, by F. Baker - signed examples are in the Museum of London and the Horners' Company Museum, circa 1700, 105mm long
A late Georgian burnished gilt-brass pipe tamper cast as a horse's hoof and fetlock, with chequered matrix, 45mm high
An 18th-century carved boxwood pipe tamper in the form of a greyhound trussing a hare, 85mm high
An early Victorian gold-mounted tortoiseshell cigar case, the cover with gold- and silver-piqué work swags and gold shield-shaped vacant escutcheon, the interior of purple watered silk, 135mm long
A late Georgian carved ivory tobacco tamper lampooning King James I for his "Blast against Tobacco", 65mm high
A mid 18th-century white porcelain pipe tamper modelled as a bust portrait of King George III, 70mm high
An 18th-century Dutch brass tobacco box, engraved with an oval depiction of the "Return of the Prodigal Son", between the royal lion supporters, a ship to the reverse, 120mm long
A19th-century hide cheroot case with cut-steel mounts, the interior lined with red straight-grained morocco leather, with pierced steel flaps to retain the cheroots, 140mm long
A late 17th-century steel pipe tamper with disc-and-point finial, on bobbin-turned stem, 53mm high
A Georgian silver-mounted fruitwood double pipe case, 205mm long
An 18th-century Iserlohn brass tobacco box, engraved with "St Philip baptising the Etheopian eunuch" (Acts 8, vs 26-39), and "The deliverance from prison of St Peter, (Acts 12, vs 6-11),164mm long
A late Victorian/Edwardian meerschaum pipe of eagle's talon form, with amber mouthpiece,135mm long, in fitted wine-morocco case
A mid 18th-century iron tobacco box, with sliding cover engraved in a rococo-style cartouche, "Joseph Beely / 1755", maker's mark impressed, "T. Shaw", 125mm long
Two views of a George III mould-pressed horn pipe tamper its terminal in the form of a negro's head wearing a military mitre cap and wig, also usable as a needle case, with screw-on pewter cover, 94mm high
A fine early 18th-century silver-mounted tortoiseshell tobacco box of oval form, the push-on cover inset with an oval escutcheon engraved with an unidentified armorial:
Crest - a scallop shell. Arms - Ermine on a chevron Gules between three tortaux three garbs Proper
A 20th-century ivory cigar cutter in the form of a champagne bottle, 70mm high
A19th-century silver-mounted vestas case made from a nut, an Edwardian silver example and another of 9ct-gold engine-turned, Chester, 1923, maker C & C.
Two pairs of late 17th-century steel pipe tongs, the upper pair having a screw-out pricker in the handle terminal and a central pipe tamper. Purchased at a Sotheby's sale of the contents of the Countess of Dysart's Stobo Castle in 1972
Not strictly for the pocket but part of the gentleman's necessary accoutrements in the late 18th century, two wrought-iron churchwarden pipes, one with an ingenious means of extending the length of the stem for a cool smoke. Similar pipes with convoluted stems are found in ceramics, notably Prattware.
