The 4 or 5 pieces of smoking paraphenalia...
Re: I agree with Carl, they look fairly new and do not have the organic look of real amber -- judy Post Reply Edit Forum Where am I?
Posted by: beadiste Mail author
08/07/2012, 08:41:00

...indicate that these pieces may have been manufactured over a century ago, in the late 1800s. WWI greatly interrupted trade in this region, did it not? And after WWI, plastics started to gain ascendency, especially German plastics designed to imitate amber.

The 2 large tubes, the three large oval mouthpieces are what I see as pieces originally made for pipes.

The likelihood of their being pressed amber is high...but pressed amber is still amber.



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