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    Posted 7 years ago

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    watchnut
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    Hi y'all
    Just picked this up today ,vintage Paktong Chinese Opium pipe.
    I have seen some but this one has a lot of hardware added.
    Has anyone seen anything like this one.
    Really interesting,I live it.
    (Paktong is a mixture of zinc,Cooper,and nickel giving it the appearance of silver).

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    1. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 7 years ago
      I don't think it's for opium.
    2. watchnut, 7 years ago
      Hello Blunderbuss
      Do you know what it is?
    3. blunderbuss2 blunderbuss2, 7 years ago
      No expert, but opium pipes were made with tiny bowls & a lot of these, and other pipes are often marketed as opium pipes in mistake or intentionally. I would say tobac or hash. Here again, I just go by what I've read & had explained. This is a very common design & probably still made for the tourist trade.
    4. MJSuter, 2 years ago
      It is an opium pipe, just one of many styles of pipes. As to whether it is authentic or a replica is harder to say however I’m leaning towards replica.a lot of the pieces coming out of Asia are replicas. The best source of real antique ones are from old collections in the US and continental Europe.

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