A calabash is introduced in The Spider Woman but Holmes does not smoke it.
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In the next dozen films, the series produced by Universal Studios, with Holmes and Watson updated to the 1940s, Rathbone smokes a much less expensive Peterson half bend with a billiard-shaped bowl. While there are promotional stills of Basil Rathbone smoking calabash pipes as Holmes for other projects, most notably his radio show, in his first two outings as Holmes produced by 20th Century-Fox as taking place in the Victorian era, Rathbone smoked an apple-bowled, black briar with a half bend, made by Dunhill, the company known for making the best pipes at that time. Gillette chose a bent pipe, more easily clenched in the teeth when delivering lines. Gillette actually introduced the curving or bent pipe for use by Holmes, but his pipe was an ornate briar. Some commentators have erroneously associated the calabash with William Gillette, the first actor to become universally recognized as the embodiment of the detective. Saintsbury as the Great Detective smoking what may be a calabash pipe, its now-stereotypical identification with Sherlock Holmes remains a mystery. Although a British newspaper cartoon of the early 1900s depicts the British actor H. These typically do not have an air chamber and are so named only because of their external shape.Ī calabash pipe is rather large and easy to recognize as a pipe when used on a stage in dramatic productions. There are also briar pipes being sold as calabashes. Beneath the bowl is an air chamber which serves to cool, dry, and mellow the smoke. They consist of a downward curve that ends with an upcurve where the bowl sits. Both wood and gourd pipes are functionally the same (with the important exception that the dried gourd, usually being noticeably lighter, sits more comfortably in the mouth). Because of this expense, pipes with bodies made of wood (usually mahogany) instead of gourd, but with the same classic shape, are sold as calabashes. Ĭalabash gourds (usually with meerschaum or porcelain bowls set inside them) have long made prized pipes, but they are labour-intensive and, today, quite expensive. The Vulcanite joiner and fussy bit are distinctive signs of the company's manufacture. First appearing in the late 1960s, these were sold as a cheaper alternative to European-made calabashes. This particular example was made in the US by the Pioneer pipe company. Metal and glass, seldom used for tobacco pipes, are common for pipes intended for other substances, such as cannabis.Ĭalabash pipe with meerschaum bowl. Unusual pipe materials include gourds (as in the famous calabash pipe) and pyrolytic graphite. Pipe bowls are sometimes decorated by carving, and moulded clay pipes often had simple decoration in the mould. Minerals such as catlinite and soapstone have also been used. Less common materials include other dense-grained woods such as cherry, olive, maple, mesquite, oak, and bog-wood.
The bowls of tobacco pipes are commonly made of briar wood, meerschaum, corncob, pear-wood, rose-wood or clay. Known as the bore (10), the inner shaft of this second section stays uniform throughout while the outer stem tapers down to the mouthpiece or bit (8) held in the smoker's teeth, and finally ends in the "lip" (9), attenuated for comfort.
At the end of the shank, the pipe's mortise (5) and tenon (6) join is an air-tight, simple connection of two detachable parts where the mortise is a hole met by the tenon, a tight-fitting "tongue" at the start of the stem (7). This draught hole (3), is for air flow where air has travelled through the tobacco in the chamber, taking the smoke with it, up the shank (4). Inside the bowl is an inner chamber (2) space holding tobacco pressed into it. On being sucked, the general stem delivers the smoke from the bowl to the user's mouth. The bowl (1) which is the cup-like outer shell, the part hand-held while packing, holding and smoking a pipe, is also the part "knocked" top-down to loosen and release impacted spent tobacco. The broad anatomy of a pipe typically comprises mainly the bowl and the stem.
Parts of a pipe include the (1) bowl, (2) chamber, (3) draught hole, (4) shank, (5) mortise, (6) tenon, (7) stem, (8) bit (or mouthpiece), (9) lip, and (10) bore.
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