A pipe bowl and stem. The stem is made of a cylinder of pale wood, which is shaped at one end to fit in the bowl and tapers very gently at the other end. The pipe bowl has twin bowls that is made in pottery and has been blackened and burnished with graphite. The end of the pipe bowl, where the stem fits, there is a coil of metal.
label: beige luggage tag with black, ink handwriting
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