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ThrushCollection name: Thrush Quentin Thrush was born in Holland in 1962 before moving to Wimbledon, UK, when he was 3 years of age. He lived in a number of locations in south London until finally moving to Bournemouth in 1997. His collection is thought to have been collected from 1997 up until his death at an early age in 2000, and has been deposited with the National Pipe Archive by his family.
The collection comprises in excess of 4,500 clay tobacco pipe bowls and stems, almost all of which appear to be standard London forms and it is assumed that these were collected from the Thames foreshore during his return visits to London. When deposited with the Archive the pipes were stored in paper bags, and had been roughly sorted into types by Quentin and grouped either by initial, or by type of mark (e.g. stars / crowns etc.). In some instances, a code has been allocated to the bag, for example “3F mop l”. There is no surviving catalogue to explain what these groups are but a decision has made to retain these groups in the event that they prove to be significant. Each individual group of has therefore been allocated a unique accession number. The collector clearly washed a number of the pipes but there is a large proportion of this collection that still needs to either be washed and/or desalinated. Key words: London; clay pipe
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