Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library Research Report Series - 1181
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Library
Williamsburg, Virginia
1990
Figure 1 - Whieldon-Wedgwood Ware
Figure 3 - Hand-painted and Transfer-painted
Figure 4 - Pearlware and Creamware
Figure 5 - Pearlware and White Earthenware
Figure 7 - Chinese Export Porcelain
Figure 8 - Chinese Export Porcelain
Figure 9 - Chinese Export Porcelain
Figure 12 - English and American Stonewares
Figure 13 - Nottingham Stoneware and Colono-Indian
Figure 21 - Wine Glasses and Table Glasses
Figure 23 - Colored and Enamelled Glass and Bottle Seals
Figure 24 - Tobacco Pipes and Wig Curlers
Figures 1A, 1B and 1C - Three Shields
Plate I - Photograph of Artifact
Plate II - Photograph of Artifact
Plate III - Photograph of Artifact
Plate IV - Photograph of Artifact
Plate V - Photograph of Artifact
Plate VI - Photograph of Artifact
Plate VII - Photograph of Artifact
Plate VIII - Photograph of Artifact
Table Of Figures | |
Bibliographic Abbreviations | |
Introduction | |
Description of Artifacts | |
Appendix I | Royal Arms Tobacco Pipes |
II | Stratigraphic Associations |
III | Photographic Negative Numbers |
Figure 1. | Whieldon-Wedgwood Wares. |
2. | Creamware. |
3. | Hand-Painted and Transfer-Printed Creamware. |
4. | Pearlware and Creamware. |
5. | Pearlware and White Earthenware. |
6. | English Porcelain. |
7. | Chinese Export Porcelain. |
8. | Chinese Export Porcelain. |
9. | Chinese Export Porcelain. |
10. | German Stonewares. |
11. | German Stonewares. |
12. | English and American Stonewares. |
13. | Nottingham Stoneware and Colono-Indian Pottery |
14. | Coarsewares. |
15. | Slipwares. |
16. | Cherry bottles. |
17. | Cherry bottles. |
18. | Cherry bottles. |
19. | Case bottles. |
20. | Wine glasses. |
21. | Wine glasses and Table glass. |
22. | Table glass. |
23. | Colored and Enamelled glass and bottle seals. |
24. | Tobacco Pipes and Wig Curlers. |
Beurdeley , | M.: | Porcelain of the East India Companies. London, 1962. |
Boney , | K.: | Liverpool Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century and its Makers. London, 1957. |
Cooper , | R.G.: | English Slipware Dishes. 1650-1850. London, 1968. |
Earle , | C: | The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery. London 1915. |
Finer and Savage , | A. and G. | The Selected Letters of Josiah Wedgwood. London, 1965. |
Godden , | G.A.: | Encyclopedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks. New York, 1964 |
Hay , | The Anthony Hay Site, Report on the Excavations of 1960. Volumes I and II by Ivor Noël Hume. | |
Hobson , | R.L.: | Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery ... in the British Museum. London, 1903. |
Honey , | W.B.: | Wedgwood Ware. London, 1948. |
Hughes , | G.B.: | English and Scottish Earthenwares 1660-1860. New York, 1961. |
Leeds Pottery , | Designs of sundry articles of Queen's or Cream-colour'd Earthen-Ware manufactured by Hartley, Greens, and Co. at Leeds-Pottery. Original in the Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1783. | |
Mankowitz , | W.: | Wedgwood. London, 1953. |
Post Office , | The Post Office Site. Report on the Archaeological Excavations of 1961. Vol. I by Ivor Noël Hume, November 1961, Vol. II by Audrey Noël Hume, 1970. | |
Rackham , | B.: | Early Staffordshire Pottery. London, 1951. |
Rackham Schreiber , | Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber, Esq., M.P. and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber. Vol. II. Earthenware. London, 1930. | |
Ravenscroft , | The Ravenscroft Site. Report on the Artifacts Excavated during 1954 by Audrey Noël Hume. Revised 1962. | |
Tait , | H.: | Bow Porcelain. 1744-1776. London, October 1959. |
Thorp , | W.A.: | A History of English and Irish Glass. London, 1929. |
Travis . | The Travis House Site. Report on the Excavations of 1961-1963. Volume I by Ivor Noël Hume. Volume II by Audrey Noël Hume. | |
Towner , | D.C.: | The Leeds Pottery. London, 1963. |
Watkins , | C.M.: | "North Devon Pottery and its Export to America in the 17th Century." U.S.N.M. Bulletin No. 225, Washington, D.C., 1960. |
Watkins, and Noël Hume : | The Poor Potter of Yorktown. U.S.N.M. Bulletin No. 249, Washington, D.C., 1967. | |
Watney , | B.: | English Blue and White Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century. London, 1963. |
Wedgewood, and Ormsbee : | Staffordshire Pottery. New York, 1947. | |
Wills , | G.: | English and Irish Glass. London, 1968. |
Wetherburn , | The Wetherburn Tavern Site. Report on the Archaeological Excavations of 1965-1966. Interim Report by Ivor Noël Hume, Volume I, Part 2 by Glen Kirk, Volume II, Part I by Audrey Noël Hume. Volume II, Part 2 by Audrey Noël Hume. Volume II, Part 3 by Audrey Noël Hume. |
The site whereon stands the building known as Wetherburn's Tavern (Block 9, Colonial Lots 20 and 21) on the south side of Duke of Gloucester Street was leased by Colonial Williamsburg in 1964. At this time it was known locally as the Bull's Head but was renamed in honor of its most interesting eighteenth-century landlord. Henry Wetherburn's tavern-keeping interests were not confined to Lots 20 and 21, due in large part to two marriages to tavern owners' widows, though he appears to have operated the establishment that now bears his name from 1743 until 1760.
The archaeological excavation of Colonial Lots 20 and 21 were spread over a period of more than two years. Although there had been widespread disturbances, mostly caused by gardening and the erection of outbuildings, there had been little modern construction on the site and no previous archaeological digging. For this reason a large number of undisturbed archaeological deposits were encountered. At the same time the disturbed areas yielded quantities of excellent though unstratified eighteenth-century artifacts. While it was obviously pointless to count the number of fragments found, a rough estimate produced a figure of 200,000--not including animal bones, nails, bottle glass, or shells.
In order to make this report more readily usable, it was decided to divide the whole into several parts. The first (dealing with the two colonial wells) and the second (concerned with delftware, saltglaze and their related wares) are already completed. This, the third part deals with the remaining ceramics, the glass, tobacco pipes, and wig curlers. The small finds and iron objects remain to be described in the final, and fourth part of this report.
Each fragment has been given a tentative date before which it could not have entered the ground. This does not mean that it was deposited at that date, but only anytime thereafter. No attempt has been made to put a date of manufacture to each sherd but the reader is referred, where possible, to dated items of comparable shape or decoration. Items stated to have come from disturbed deposits had been uprooted from their original resting place in the course of the long life of the site.
All items are assumed to be of British origin unless otherwise noted.
Appendix II contains a complete listing of the stratigraphic associations of objects in Parts 2 and 3.
Figure 1. Whieldon-Wedgwood Wares
Figure 2. Creamware
Figure 3. Hand Painted and Transfer Printed Creamware
Disturbed deposit | |
Neck fragment | 3450. E.R. 1009-9.N. |
Body fragment | 3451. E.R. 1009A-9.N. |
Base fragment | 3452. E.R. 1008-9.N. |
Figure 4. Pearlware and Creamware
Date of deposit: | post 1825. |
Spout | 3901. E.R. 1046-9.N. |
Body fragment | 3902. E.R. 1050A, and 1050E, and 1052A-9.N. |
Figure 5. Pearlwares and White Earthenwares
Figure 6. English Porcelain
Upper sherd, disturbed deposit. | 5166. E.R. 1108B-9.N. |
Lower sherd, date of deposit: | post 1810. 5167. E.R. 1108E-9.N. |
Figure 7. Chinese Export Porcelain
Left-hand fragment | 5246. E.R. 1011B and E, 1026B, C, and D-9.N. |
Date of deposit: | post 1750. |
Right-hand fragment | 5247. E.R. 1011B, and 1026B-9.N. |
Date of deposit: | post 1757. |
Figure 8. Chinese Export Porcelain
Left. Rim fragment from flaring bowl, on the interior is a green band enclosed by red lines and overpainted with a scroll design in black. On the exterior a design of round "scales" has been applied in a white slip under the glaze.
Disturbed deposit. 5263. E.R. 1164-9.N.
Right. Small fragment of plate rim, the upper surface with a diaper border in red-and green below which is an unidentified design in green and black. The underside of the fragment has a design probably floral in character painted in a white slip prior to glazing, the edge is banded with iron oxide.
Date of deposit: post 1770. 5264. E.R. 1168C-9.N.
Figure 9. Chinese Export Porcelain
Disturbed deposits. | |
Left hand fragment: | 5290. E.R. 1165-9.N. |
Right hand fragment: | 5291. E.R. 1161-9.N. |
Date of deposit: | |
Rim: | 5067a E.R. 1023A-9.N. |
Center: | 5067b. E.R. 1025B, and 1018C, and 1025C, and 1023-9.N. |
Figure 10. German Stoneware
Figure 11. German Stonewares
Figure 12. Brown Stoneware
Figure 13 Colono-Indian and Nottingham Wares
Figure 14. Coarsewares
Upper fragment | 5408. E.R. 1168C-9.N. |
Date of deposit: | post 1765. |
Lower hand fragment | 5409. E.R. 1008Q-9.N. |
Date of deposit: | post 1770. |
Right hand fragment | 5410. E.R. 1009X-9.N. |
Date of deposit: | post 1760. |
Figure 15. English and American Slipwares
No. 6: | Date of deposit: | post 1745. |
5419. E.R. 1043B-9.N. | ||
No. 7: | Date of deposit: | post 1780. |
5455. E.R. 1008D-9.N. |
A group of fifteen bottles found together beside the southeast corner of the tavern.1 Details of the contents of individual bottles will be found below:
Clay had been placed over the corks which prevented soil from entering the bottles while at the same time allowing water to drain in and ensure the preservation of some of the contents. The majority of the bottles contained a brown-red liquid which when analyzed proved to have no alcoholic content. The cherries were identified as Morello and the Virginia Gazette for 26th September 1755 contains an advertisement offering Morello cherry trees for sale in Surrey County. On 13 October 1768 an orchard of "apples, peaches and cherries" belonging to the late William Prentis and situated within four miles of Williamsburg was advertised for sale. It has been impossible to ascertain if these bottles were meant to contain brandied cherries, cherry brandy, or merely bottled cherries. Precedent for all three items can be found in eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century books but unfortunately it will never be possible to prove which was the intent of the person or persons unknown who buried the Wetherburn bottles.
The bottles are listed top to bottom and left to right:
5038. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 9". Contained no cherries and a clear liquid. |
5043. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 8-¾". Contained 20 cherries, 52 pits, some stems and a clear liquid. |
5030. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 9-¾". Contained 22 cherries, 227 cherry pits, 1 cork and a dark red liquid. |
5042. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 8-½". Contained 31 cherries, 107 pits and a clear liquid. |
5033. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 9-¼". Contained 28 cherries, 174 pits and a clear liquid. |
5036. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 7-½". Contained 20 cherries (some with stems), 52 pits and a clear liquid. |
5031. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 7-½". Contained 87 pits, no cherries, and a clear liquid. |
5040. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 8-¼". Contained 187 pits, no cherries, and a clear liquid. |
5035. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 9-¾". Contained no cherries or pits, only a clear liquid. |
5037. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 8". Contained 52 pits, no stems or cherries and a clear liquid. |
5039. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 9-¼". Contained 26 pits, no stems or cherries, an insect skeleton and a clear liquid. |
5041. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 8-½". Contained no cherries, 228 pits, some stems, a cork and a dark red liquid. |
5044. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 9". This bottle had been broken so no contents remained. |
5034. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 7-¾". Contained 20 cherries, 52 pits, some stems and a clear liquid. |
5032. E.R. 1043D-9.N. | Ht: 7-¾". Contained 25 cherries, 152 pits, some stems and a clear liquid. |
Group of five wine bottles found inside the kitchen whose construction they predated.
Left to Right
Group of three wide-mouthed bottles found beneath and under the kitchen wall. No cherries inside, see Wetherburn Interim report, page 20ff.
Left to Right
Figure 19. Case Bottle
[The page(s) containing items #1-24 were missing from the text]
Figure 20 (cont.)
Figure 21 Wine Glasses and Table Glass.
Figure 22. Engraved Table and Opaque Glass
No. 10. | Date of deposit: | post 1755. 5608. E.R. 1123E-9.N. |
No. 11. | Date of deposit: | post 1770. 5609. E.R. 1007J-9.N. |
Figure 23. Colored and Enamelled Glass and Bottle Seals
Figure 24.1 Tobacco Pipes and Wig Curlers
No. 20. | Disturbed deposit. | 5857. E.R. 1043A-9.N. |
No. 21. | Post 1750. | 5856. E.R. 1032D-9.N. |
During more than forty years of archaeological excavation in Williamsburg, a relatively large number of English clay tobacco pipes bearing the British royal arms have been discovered. Indeed, it might be thought surprising if none had been found in this the colonial capital and seat of royal government. However, other colonies, such as New England, Canada, and Jamaica have as yet yielded only small numbers of these pipes.
The years between 1688 and 1714 saw three major alterations to the royal arms which had previously remained unchanged since the reign of Henry VIII. The accession of William of Nassau and Mary Stuart in 1688 was followed by the addition of the lion and billets of Nassau superimposed on a shield in the center of the arms, (FIG. 1A). On the accession of Queen Anne in 1702 the shield of Nassau was removed and five years later the Union with Scotland produced radical changes in all but one of the quarterings. In the first and fourth quarters the lion of Scotland was halved with the three lions of the English kings, and the three fleur de lys were placed in the second quarter, (FIG. 1B). In 1714 the transference of the throne to the Hanoverian line brought about an even more drastic revision. The horse of Hanover, the hearts and lion of Luneberg, the Brunswick lions and an escutcheon charged with the crown of Charlemagne were all placed in the fourth quarter, (FIG. 1C). For eighty-seven years thereafter, until the union with Ireland, the arms remained the same, and it is this version that appears on most of the tobacco pipes.
The largest class of tobacco pipes found in Williamsburg bears the Hanoverian royal arms, has no makers' marks, possesses a spur rather than a heel and exhibits the incorrect motto DIEU ET MON DROT on a two part streamer, in association with the scale-like front design,1 (PL. 1).2 The lion has a small curl of hair protruding upwards from the mid section of his tail, a feature missing from the unicorn. Forty-nine complete or fragmentary examples were excavated at the site of Henry Wetherburn's Tavern on Duke of Gloucester Street, thirty-two of them being recovered from refuse deposits made prior to 1760. There are at least five moulds represented, these being distinguishable by size variations in the lettering, in the streamer and in the arms. The sharpness of the moulding varies from good to so poor that any comparison of decoration or flaws is impossible.
The excavation of another site on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg some years ago produced a large group of pipes initialed R M astride the heel, some of which had a cross in relief at the interior base of the bowl.3 A similar cross appears in nine of the twenty-four royal arms pipes with the motto DIEU ET MON DROT and the scale-like front design shown in PL. I. None of the other pipes discussed in this paper are so marked.
A single fragmentary pipe from the site of Wetherburn's Tavern having the incorrect motto on a two part streamer (front design missing), also has the initials N A moulded on the sides of the spur (PL. II). No other pipes with these letters are recorded from Williamsburg sites, nor do these initials appear either in Adrian Oswald's general list4, or in the London listing that he compiled with David Atkinson.5
The N A pipe appears to have been thrown away early in the 1780's when items with British associations were doubtlessly enjoying minimal popularity in Williamsburg.
Six pipes from various Williamsburg sites bear the motto DIEU ET MON DROT but have heels rather than spurs. Their front design comprises an upper third with small flowers or berries and a lower two thirds with large leaves, the lower pair of which turn downwards. Two of these pipes possess the crowned initials F S astride the heel, (PL. III), while another has been broken in such a way that only the pair of crowns remains to indicate that it, too, had once borne initials. Of the two bowls on which the unicorn still exists, the letter S had been incorporated into the mid-section of its tail. There are also what may be indecipherable letters both at the end and in the mid-section of the lion's tail. One F S pipe was found at Henry Wetherburn's Tavern in a deposit of about 1760 with another royal arms pipe and some undecorated bowls. The second F S bowl was excavated on the site of the Raleigh Tavern, an establishment across the street from the previously mentioned Wetherburn's Tavern.6
The three remaining pipes having DIEU ET MON DROT as the motto possess a front decoration of four pairs of up-pointing leaves and have unmarked heels rather than spurs. All three were found at another tavern known as Marot's ordinary,7 (PL. IV) situated on the same street as Wetherburn's and the Raleigh.
Six Hanoverian pipes from Williamsburg possess the correctly spelled motto DIEU ET MON DROIT. All have heels rather than spurs and two are unmarked. Of the marked four, all show a crowned W M astride the heel but only two have complete bowls, and these would seem to be the products of a single mould, (PL. V). The coat of arms shows two instead of the customary three lions in the first quarter, and the escutcheon charged with the crown of Charlemagne in the third quarter is omitted. Unlike all the pipes bearing the incorrect motto, the streamer is in three parts, thus DIEU/ ET MON/ DROIT, with the middle section on a lower level divided by the back seam. The word MON is placed on the right and in order to balance this with the two letter word ET a rosette has been inserted before the E. The Garter motto reads HONI SOIT QV PENSE, the place of the I being taken by the back seam. A rose and a thistle have been added on stalks emanating from the Garter motto, the rose above the Q of the QV[I] and the thistle over the A of MAL. The flowers themselves are placed between the supporters' heads and the surmounting crown.
The frontal designs of both pipes (bottom to top) consist of a pair of stalked berries, two pair of upward-pointing leaves below a fleur de lys. The right hand leaf of the lower pair has been moved closer to the stem than its fellow in order to accommodate the tail of the lion. Both pipes were found in the refuse from John Coke's Tavern at the east end of town and were deposited between 1740 and 1750. The third W M pipe (having the correct motto and the same front design as the above mentioned pipes from Coke's inn) has only the heel and front intact and is an unstratified find from the adjacent lot.8 The fourth fragment comprises the marked heel and enough of the bowl to identify it as being of the same type and was found in a disturbed area at Wetherburn's Tavern.9
The most interesting group of royal arms pipes found in Williamsburg are those bearing the incorrectly spelled motto of William III, JE MAINTIENDRAY, in association with the Hanoverian arms. Of these, the most important is a fragmentary example having the initials T D astride its heel, and above and to the left of the lion supporter the letters THO.., (PL. VI). This pipe was found in a deposit of tavern type refuse below the foundations of the Wetherburn's Tavern kitchen building believed to have been built about 1755. Oswald10 lists two makers with these initials (Christian name Thomas) working in the first half of the eighteenth century, Thomas Darkes of Broseley and a Bristol maker named Thomas Dennis.11 This Williamsburg pipe has the arms' supporters standing on a bar rather than directly on the streamer as is the case with all the previously discussed specimens. Like the lion of the example shown in PL. I, both the lion and the unicorn supporters have a small curl of hair protruding from the mid-section of their tails.12 The complicated front design has at the bottom alternating pairs of a daffodil-like flower, a circle on a stalk and a five-petalled flower. Surmounting these are a single pair of up-curving leaves and two pairs of down-facing leaves, the upper set being larger. The top decoration does not survive. Three other fragmentary bowls have been found with the initials TD astride the heel; all have the same motto, and in two cases there is sufficient of the front design to identify it as that shown in PL. VI. It would seem that while not from the same mould as the THO[MAS?] bowl, they do belong to that group. Two came from a deposit made about 1760, the third from an area of recent disturbance.13
Another pipe which unfortunately lacks the upper part of the bowl also bears the motto JE MAINTIENDRAY of William III but was the only Williamsburg pipe with a front design somewhat similar to that of PL. VI and with a heart-shaped heel in place of the conventional spur or round heel (not illustrated). The arms are those of the Hanoverians and the supporters stand directly on the streamer. Three pipes apparently from the same mould also have the William III motto on a two part streamer, the most complete bowl is shown in PL. VII. There is no design immediately astride the front mould mark, instead there are flanking stalks to which are attached alternating tulip-like flowers and round berries. The most interesting feature of these pipes is the mouldmaker's failure to correctly space the decoration. While the unicorn completely fills its allotted area between the vertical stalks of flowers and berries, the lion does not, and so, in an effort to avoid a blank space, the mouldmaker added one small raised dot. Running inward from the hind foot of each supporter is a finely rouletted strap paralleling the rouletting at the band of the crown and on the second quartering of the arms. Both supporters have a double-ended tail dividing in the midsection, seemingly an extension of the central curl previously noted on the examples illustrated in PLS. I and VI. One of these three pipes still has a portion of its stem attached and shows that they were without heels or spurs, the shape being relatively uncommon in colonial deposits excavated in Williamsburg. The complete bowl was an unstratified find from the site of William Prentis' general store, the bowl with stem was a likewise undated find on the house site of Joseph Royle, a loyalist printer. The third example, a bowl fragment, was found near the James Geddy House in a mid-eighteenth-century deposit.
Among the many thousands of pipe stems excavated at Henry Wetherburn's Tavern are thirty-one fragments bearing the letters I-BAX moulded in relief around the stem, (PL. VIII). Whenever one of these stems was found, it was always in the same archaeological context as a bowl decorated with the Hanoverian arms. Another site, the already discussed tavern of John Coke, provided confirmation of the theory that the relationship was more than coincidental. A bowl fragment with part of the streamer still attached to its stem14 possessed the I-BAX mark two and one eighth inches behind the bowl. As yet no clue to the meaning of the letters has been found.
Only two pipes bearing the badge of the Prince of Wales (a plume of feathers) have been excavated in Williamsburg, both with unmarked spurs. One (a nearly complete bowl) was found along with royal arms pipes at the site of John Coke's tavern in a deposit of trash made between 1740 and 1750. In addition to the plumes on the back and the motto ICH DIEN, this bowl possesses a front design of alternate large and small up-pointing leaves, (PL. IX). A fragmentary bowl with the same moulding defects was found on the house site of Joseph Royle. Another pipe, found on the James Geddy site is heelless, has a shell at the base of the front design which consists of clusters of up-pointing leaves. On the right-hand side is a ducal coronet (without the customary strawberry leaves) from which a pair of plume-like devices emerge, (PL. X). The quality of the moulding makes identification of the left design virtually impossible but it might be an urn of flowers. This pipe was recovered from a trash deposit made about 1760.
Of the seventy-six pipes bearing the royal arms which have been found in Williamsburg only four come from sites without tavern-keeping associations. Two of these were found at the house of the brassfounding and silversmithing Geddy family, one came from the house site of the aforementioned Joseph Royle, and the fourth from the nearby site of the Prentis Store on Duke of Gloucester Street.
It is apparent that these armorial pipes were available in Williamsburg taverns but under what circumstances is unknown. Tobacco was sold in many inns, and it is possible that pipes were supplied with it, but it is equally likely that they were sold separately or even given away to customers on special occasions such as royal birthdays or marriages. Williamsburg had no "Kings Arms" tavern until 1772, long after the majority of these pipes had found their way into the ground. This would seem to eliminate the possibility of their having being used as an advertising gimmick as match books are today.
Discussing these royal arms pipes, Adrian Oswald15 states that they "were clearly a favored export to America." However, it is hard to either confirm or dispute this statement as far as areas outside Williamsburg are concerned, for although relatively few examples are recorded as having been found, nowhere else has a British-American colonial town been so thoroughly excavated. The published specimens come mainly from British military sites such as the New York forts and the fortress of Louisbourg. In the case of Williamsburg, it is also hard to judge, for, as has already been discussed, almost all the pipes were found on tavern sites, and the ratios of armorial to plain do not hold true for the town in general. Unfortunately there is no documentary or archaeological evidence to prove where the Williamsburg royal arms pipes were made. It is known that both London and Bristol supplied pipes to the New England area and of course both places had strong economic ties with Virginia. Only one of the sets of initials listed by Adrian Oswald16 (crowned WM) can be paralleled by the Williamsburg finds and this is attributed tentatively to William Manby, Jr., working in London in the first half of the eighteenth century.
There is little doubt that among the English clay tobacco pipes of the eighteenth century those bearing the royal arms are the most decorative and perhaps the most interesting. While this paper deals only with a small group of such pipes that have been found in Williamsburg, it is hoped that it may provide food for thought for those working in this field and might inspire a more comprehensive study of the subject.
Plate I. | Pie with Hanoverian arms, motto DIEU ET MON DROT, scale-like front design and unmarked spur. [5853.E.R. 1001L-9.N.] |
Plate II. | Pipe with Hanoverian arms, motto DIEU ET MON DROT, front design missing, maker's mark N A astride spur. [5851. E.R. 1119N-9.N.] |
Plate III. | Pipe with Hanoverian arms, motto DIEU ET MON DROT, leaf and flower front decoration, crowned F S astride heel. [5860. E.R. 1162Q-9.P.] |
Plate IV. | Pipe with Hanoverian arms, motto DIET ET MON DROT, front design of large leaves but upper portion missing, unmarked heel. [5862. -9.L.] |
Plate V. | Pipe with Hanoverian arms, motto DIEU ET MON DROIT, front design of large leaves, crowned W M astride heel. [1332. E.R. 140-27.A.] |
Plate VI. | Pipe with Hanoverian arms, but with Williamite motto JE MAINTIENDRAY, front design of berries and flowers, T D astride heel and THO... on bowl. [5852. E.R. 1029F-9.N.] |
Plate VII. | Pipe with Hanoverian arms, motto JE MAINTIENDRAY, front with flanking flower and berry sprays, heel or spur missing. [5861. -18.C.] |
Plate VIII. | Pipe stem with moulded relief letters I BAX. [5864. E.R. 1030V-9.N.] |
Plate IX. | Pipe with Prince of Wales feathers, motto ICH DIEN, front design of large leaves, spur. [1334. E.R. 140-27.B.] |
Plate X. | Pipe with ducal (?) coronet and plumes or leaves on one side, an urn (?) on the other; front design of shell and leaves, heelless. [5863. E.R. 1327Q-19.B.] |
Plate | I | 70-DW-767 |
II | 70-DW-773 | |
III | 70-DW-763 | |
IV | 70-DW-768 | |
V | 70-DW-765 | |
VI | 70-DW-771 | |
VII | 70-DW-764 | |
VIII | 70-DW-762 | |
IX | 70-DW-770 | |
X | 70-DW-766 | |
E.R. 1001A | 3.3.8. | E.R. 1005C | 3.2.3. |
3.5.1. | 3.3.6. | ||
3.5.9. | 3.22.1. | ||
3.9.2. | 3.23.1. | ||
3.23.2. | |||
E.R. 1001C | 3.4.19. | 3.23.3. | |
3.5.2. | |||
3.5.3. | E.R. 1008A | 3.6.16. | |
3.5.4. | 3.10.8. | ||
3.5.5. | |||
3.5.6. | E.R. 1008B | 2.8.7. | |
3.5.8. | 2.8.14. | ||
3.5.9. | 3.11.3. | ||
3.6.8. | |||
3.9.2. | E.R. 1008D | 3.8.13 | |
3.15.3. | |||
E.R. 1001D | 2.14.1. | 3.15.7. | |
2.14.2. | |||
2.14.3. | E.R. 1008F | 2.7.20. | |
2.17.4. | 2.8.14. | ||
3.20.8. | |||
3.9.11. | E.R. 1008M | 2.18.7. | |
3.1.11. | |||
E.R. 1001E | 2.14.16. | ||
2.4.20 | E.R. 1008Q | 3.11.1. | |
2.8.2. | 3.13.16. | ||
2.8.6. | 3.22.17. | ||
2.13.6. | |||
2.4.1. | E.R. 1009M | 2.9.7. | |
2.4.2. | 2.12. | ||
2.4.3. | 3.9.13. | ||
3.11.1. | 3.10.3. | ||
3.12.13. | |||
E.R. 1009Q | 2.12. | ||
E.R. 1001F | 2.14.1. | 2.16.7. | |
2.14.2. | 2.18.6. | ||
2.14.3. | 3.8.29. | ||
3.11.1. | |||
E.R. 1009S | 2.12. | ||
E.R. 1001G | 2.4.16. | 2.17.7. | |
2.8.6. | 3.9.13. | ||
2.10.3. | 3.21.11. | ||
3.11.1. | |||
E.R. 1011A | 2.10.12. | ||
E.R. 1002G | 2.10.1. | 3.9.5. | |
2.18.9. | |||
3.8.21. | E.R. 1011B | 2.18.17. | |
3.7.13. | |||
E.R. 1004L | 2.11.14. | 3.8.5. | |
3.4.21. | |||
E.R. 1011D | 2.6.3. | ||
E.R. 1004M | 2.10.3. | 2.7.8. | |
3.21.34. | 3.8.5. | ||
E.R. 1011D | 3.21.29. | E.R. 1017B | 2.2.10. |
3.8.22. | 2.2.14. | ||
3.8.27. | 2.5.1. | ||
2.5.3. | |||
E.R. 1011E | 2.6.3. | 2.5.8. | |
2.18.2. | 2.5.11. | ||
2.8.27. | 2.15.12. | ||
3.9.11. | 3.7.3. | ||
3.21.19. | 3.12.12. | ||
3.7.13. | 3.13.3. | ||
3.22.2. | 3.15.4. | ||
3.23.4. | 3.22.22. | ||
E.R. 1011J | 2.4.5. | E.R. 1017E | 3.6.11. |
2.4.6. | 3.15.5. | ||
2.6.3. | 3.21.16. | ||
E.R. 1012B | 3.1.6. | E.R. 1017T | 2.18.3. |
3.21.3. | 3.12.6. | ||
3.22.20. | 3.21.14. | ||
E.R. 1012C | 2.9.10. | E.R. 1019G | 3.17.1. |
3.13.4. | 3.17.5. | ||
E.R. 1012D | 2.11.12. | E.R. 1020D | 2.1.5. |
2.17.3. | 3.2.14. | ||
3.1.6. | 3.8.22. | ||
3.7.2. | 3.15.5. | ||
3.13.1. | 3.13.8. | ||
3.21.10. | |||
3.21.20. | E.R. 1020K | 2.4.10. | |
2.7.14. | |||
E.R. 1012E | 2.11.18. | 2.10.18. | |
2.15.9. | 3.13.7. | ||
2.16.6. | 3.17.3. | ||
3.1.26 | 3.20.21 | ||
E.R. 1012J | 2.15.9. | E.R. 1026B | 3.7.13. |
2.16.16. | 3.9.5. | ||
3.22.4. | 3.21.6. | ||
3.22.15. | |||
E.R. 1026C | 2.8.13. | ||
E.R. 1014F | 2.4.3. | 2.14.11. | |
3.8.23. | 3.7.13. | ||
3.13.14. | 3.9.5. | ||
E.R. 1016C | 3.10.4. | E.R. 1027D | 2.4.9. |
3.18.1. | 3.24.9. | ||
3.18.2. | |||
3.18.3. | E.R. 1027J | 3.24.2. | |
3.24.9. | |||
E.R. 1017A | 2.18.3. | ||
3.2.7. | E.R. 1028H | 3.23.22. | |
E.R. 1028H | 3.24.22. | E.R. 1043A | 3.1.2. |
3.2.1. | |||
E.R. 1028J | 2.4.15. | 3.6.20. | |
3.24.2. | 3.12.14. | ||
E.R. 1043B | 2.11.17. | ||
E.R. 1029E | 2.2.16. | 3.15.6. | |
3.17.4. | |||
3.24.4. | E.R. 1043E | 2.9.5. | |
3.24.26. | |||
E.R. 1029F | 2.2.4. | ||
3.20.11. | E.R. 1043K | 2.6.21. | |
2.16.7. | |||
E.R. 1030D | 2.8.17. | ||
2.9.11. | E.R. 1045D | 2.6.13. | |
3.3.21. | 2.6.25. | ||
3.8.12. | 3.13.12. | ||
3.11.3. | 3.24.5. | ||
E.R. 1030E | 2.4.14. | E.R. 1047A | 2.4.4. |
2.11.16. | 2.5.5. | ||
2.13.13. | 2.14.10. | ||
2.16.6. | 2.15.8. | ||
3.11.3 | 2.18.19. | ||
3.8.6. | |||
E.R. 1030F | 2.6.23. | 3.24.23. | |
2.6.26. | 3.24.24. | ||
2.13.13. | 3.24.27. | ||
3.1.7. | |||
3.11.3. | E.R. 1047B | 2.4.4. | |
2.5.5. | |||
E.R. 1030K | 2.10.6. | ||
2.14.1. | E.R. 1047E | 2.15.8. | |
2.14.2. | 3.12.27. | ||
2.14.3. | |||
3.22.21. | E.R. 1047M | 2.8.10. | |
3.12.27. | |||
E.R. 1030P | 2.14.1. | 3.22.7. | |
2.14.2. | |||
2.14.3. | E.R. 1048D | 3.1.20. | |
3.3.3. | |||
E.R. 1033A | 2.3.left | ||
2.6.22. | E.R. 1048H | 2.2.1. | |
2.8. | |||
E.R. 1034C | 2.4.15. | 2.8.19. | |
3.2.15. | |||
3.24.8. | E.R. 1049B | 2.11.1. | |
3.3.20. | |||
E.R. 1039A | 3.1.9. | 3.12.3. | |
3.4.14. | |||
3.13.5. | E.R. 1050A | 3.4.4. | |
3.23.5. | |||
E.R. 1040F | 3.11.2. | ||
3.12.23. | E.R. 1052A | 2.18.3. | |
E.R. 1052A | 3.1.3. | E.R. 1108F | 2.16.15. |
3.4.4. | 3.13.2. | ||
3.22.15. | 3.13.17. | ||
E.R. 1053C | 2.9.1. | E.R. 1112A | 2.9.3. |
3.10.13. | 2.13.8. | ||
3.2.9. | |||
E.R. 1054A | 2.14.7. | ||
3.1.4. | E.R. 1114C | 2.1.3. | |
2.2.8. | |||
E.R. 1054B | 2.4.8. | 2.2.9. | |
3.21.31. | 2.5.15. | ||
2.6.6. | |||
E.R. 1054C | 2.6.19. | 2.14.8. | |
2.16.7. | 2.14.9. | ||
3.1.16. | 3.2.8. | ||
3.4.7. | |||
E.R. 1054D | 2.5.9. | 3.7.5. | |
3.3.19. | 3.7.12. | ||
3.8.3. | |||
E.R. 1055A | 2.18.8. | 3.21.9. | |
3.7.9. | 3.21.13. | ||
3.22.11. | |||
E.R. 1067A | 2.3.right | ||
2.8.8. | E.R. 1114J | 2.7.4. | |
2.10.15. | 2.13.5. | ||
2.16.6. | 2.13.10. | ||
3.1.22. | 2.17.1. | ||
3.6.6. | 3.21.23 | ||
3.11.3. | |||
3.22.13. | E.R. 1114M | 2.1.7. | |
2.1.13. | |||
E.R. 1067B | 2.3.right | 2.7.15. | |
3.13.4. | 2.8.17. | ||
E.R. 1067C | 2.3.right | E.R. 1115C | 2.2.5. |
2.16.6. | 3.13.9. | ||
E.R. 1069A | 2.6.24. | E.R. 1115D | 2.2.6. |
2.15.2. | 2.7.14. | ||
3.10.10. | 2.8.11. | ||
3.12.5. | 2.18.11. | ||
3.12.8. | |||
E.R. 1108B | 3.4.6. | 3.23.30. | |
3.6.3. | 3.17.13.9. | ||
3.12.26. | 3.24.29. | ||
E.R. 1108E | 2.4.3. | E.R. 1115J | 2.2.5. |
2.5.2. | 2.4.16. | ||
3.6.4. | 3.19.9. | ||
3.24.1. | |||
E.R. 1108F | 2.4.3. | ||
2.10.6. | E.R. 1116B | 2.6.7. | |
E.R. 1116B | 3.21.4. | E.R. 1123E | 3.12.18. |
3.13.1. | |||
E.R. 1116C | 2.4.12. | 3.21.4. | |
2.7.5. | 3.21.21. | ||
2.7.17. | 3.21.30. | ||
3.20.3. | |||
E.R. 1123R | 2.11.2. | ||
E.R. 1117D | 2.1.12. | 2.11.4. | |
2.4.12. | |||
3.9.12. | E.R. 1124P | 3.3.19. | |
3.20.20. | 3.12.9. | ||
3.20.27. | 3.22.9. | ||
E.R. 1118R | 2.1.11. | E.R. 1124Q | 2.4.18. |
2.4.17. | 2.11.6. | ||
3.20.5. | 3.12.9. | ||
3.20.19. | 3.20.17. | ||
E.R. 1119E | 2.16.6. | E.R. 1125E | 2.16.4. |
3.20.6. | 3.19.1. | ||
E.R. 1119M | 3.3.18. | E.R. 1125J | 2.1.1. |
3.23.10. | 3.19.1. | ||
E.R. 1120J | 3.15.2. | E.R. 1125K | 2.18.10. |
3.24.7. | 3.9.4. | ||
E.R. 1121Q | 2.13.12. | E.R. 1125L | 2.15.1. |
2.18.20. | 2.16.2. | ||
3.1.5. | |||
E.R. 1121S | 2.8.3. | 3.6.14. | |
2.8.20. | |||
E.R. 1125R | 2.13.1. | ||
E.R. 1121V | 2.11.11 | 2.13.2. | |
3.20.7. | |||
3.21.22. | E.R. 1126D | 2.6.9. | |
2.8.16. | |||
E.R. 1122G | 2.7.1. | 3.1.31. | |
2.7.18. | |||
3.8.20. | E.R. 1126E | 2.8.17. | |
2.1.4. | 2.10.2. | ||
3.8.24. | |||
E.R. 1123E | 2.3.right | ||
2.3.left | E.R. 1127A | 2.6.20. | |
2.4.1. | 3.9.6. | ||
2.5.6. | |||
2.9.6. | E.R. 1129G | 2.7.1. | |
2.13.4. | 2.7.20. | ||
2.17.1. | |||
3.7.1. | E.R. 1411L | 2.4.2. | |
3.9.3. | 2.10.6. | ||
3.10.1. | |||
3.10.7. | E.R. 1444J | 2.12center | |
E.R. 1444J | 2.15.13. | E.R. 1165T | 3.2.5. |
3.2.12. | |||
E.R. 1147R | 2.4.10. | ||
3.8.7. | E.R. 1165W | 2.9.8. | |
3.12.2. | 2.17.12. | ||
3.2.12. | |||
E.R. 1148D | 2.16.1. | 3.6.9. | |
2.16.3. | 3.13.1. | ||
3.21.12. | |||
3.24.23. | E.R. 1165Z | 2.2.13. | |
2.14.6. | |||
E.R. 1148F | 2.1.6. | ||
3.13.20. | E.R. 1168C | 3.8.15. | |
3.20.13. | 3.13.16. | ||
3.21.24. | |||
3.22.24. | E.R. 1168E | 2.11.9. | |
3.8.30. | |||
E.R. 1155R | 2.4.3. | ||
2.8.12. | |||
3.20.9. | |||
E.R. 1161D | 2.18.8. | ||
3.12.20. | |||
3.12.25. | |||
3.23.6. | |||
E.R. 1165G | 2.1.1. | ||
2.4.10. | |||
2.6.4. | |||
2.6.8. | |||
2.6.10. | |||
2.7.20. | |||
2.8.15. | |||
3.6.5. | |||
3.7.6. | |||
3.9.1. | |||
3.9.7. | |||
3.15.1. | |||
3.20.1. | |||
3.20.14. | |||
3.20.23. | |||
3.21.25. | |||
3.21.27. | |||
3.23.9. | |||
3.23.11. | |||
E.R. 1165L | 3.8.26. | ||
3.10.9. | |||
E.R. 1165T | 2.2.13. | ||
2.4.7. | |||
2.9.9. | |||
2.18.4. |
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I am sending herewith a copy of Mrs. Noël Hume's continuing study of the Wetherburn artifacts, which I hope you will find of some interest. This is the copy that is to go into the Architectural Library, and I shall be grateful if you will send it along to Mr. Buchanan when you are through with it..
A fourth part or section remains to be written to complete the archaeological record of the Wetherburn's Tavern site. This is, as you know, the last study of this kind that we plan to produce, on the grounds that we consider the enormous amount of work involved to be of value to too few people to be economical.
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