https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png UKDFD Recording Software https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ Pipe tampers https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/pipe-tampers.html Pipe Tamper https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/pipe-tampers/pipe-tamper-58773.html Mon, 18 Aug 2025 11:08:49 GMT Pipe tampers Pipe Tamper  
Description: A tobacco smoker's novelty pipe tamper moulded in the form of a (?) ball pein hammer with a shod horse hoof at the base of the handle. Pipe tampers of this type often have a hollow handle that can be unscrewed to expose an additional tool, such as a bowl cleaner. In the present case, however, the recorder believes that the handle is solid.
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Category: Pipe tampers
]]> Pipe Tamper https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/pipe-tampers/pipe-tamper-57009.html Mon, 17 Oct 2022 10:41:14 GMT Pipe tampers Pipe Tamper  
Description: A combination pipe tamper and signet ring of the post-medieval period. The ring bezel is inscribed with an anchor flanked by the owner's initials M H.
 Pipe tampers have been produced since the late 16th century to provide smokers with a tool for compressing the tobacco in their pipe bowls. This was necessary to ensure a firm draw, as well as slow and uniform burning.
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Category: Pipe tampers
]]> Pipe Tamper, Henry VIII https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/pipe-tampers/pipe-tamper-henry-viii-52205.html Sun, 20 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMT Pipe tampers Pipe Tamper, Henry VIII  
Description: A figural copper-alloy pipe tamper depicting Henry VIII,The head of the figure has excessive wear consistent with the repetitive use associated with objects of this kind. The plinth which the figure stood on and the truncated tamper are both missing. Pipe tampers have been produced since the late 16th century to provide smokers with a tool for compressing the tobacco in their pipe bowls. This was necessary to ensure a firm draw, as well as slow and uniform burning.

Image 3 illustrates a complete example of similar type.
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Category: Pipe tampers
]]> Pipe Tamper https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/pipe-tampers/pipe-tamper-56612.html Sun, 23 Jan 2022 17:34:17 GMT Pipe tampers Pipe Tamper  
Description: A figural copper-alloy pipe tamper depicting Henry VIII. The head of the figure has excessive wear consistent with the repetitive use associated with objects of this kind. The plinth on which the figure stood and the waisted tamper are both missing. Pipe tampers have been produced since the late 16th century to provide smokers with a tool for compressing the tobacco in their pipe bowls. This was necessary to ensure a firm draw, as well as slow and uniform burning. A substantial amount of the gilt finish survives.

Image 4 illustrates a complete example of similar type.
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Category: Pipe tampers
]]> Pipe Tamper https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/pipe-tampers/pipe-tamper-56079.html Tue, 11 May 2021 16:11:50 GMT Pipe tampers Pipe Tamper  
Description: A copper-alloy pipe tamper depicting a male figure in late 19th to early 20th-century dress including a hat and scarf. The figure is striking a jaunty pose, one hand on hip, the other hand carrying an object, or possibly the remains of the broken hand.
 Pipe tampers have been produced since the late 16th century to provide smokers with a tool for compressing the tobacco in their pipe bowls. This was necessary to ensure a firm draw, as well as slow and uniform burning.
See also UKDFD42462
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Category: Pipe tampers
]]> Pipe Tamper https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/pipe-tampers/pipe-tamper-55871.html Tue, 09 Mar 2021 11:02:47 GMT Pipe tampers Pipe Tamper  
Description: A combined pipe tamper, ring and bowl cleaner of the second half of the 18th century.

Gordon Bailey (see References below) describes this type thus:
"A novelty multi-tool produced in the second half of the 18th century was the combined ring, tamper and bowl cleaner. In this design, the outer shell of the tamper could be unscrewed to expose a corkscrew-like spike for reaming the pipe bowl. This device was an early hint of the multi-purpose pipe tools that would join tobacconists' accessory displays from the late 19th century."

See also UKDFD 26440 for an opened example.
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Category: Pipe tampers
]]> Pipe Tamper https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/pipe-tampers/pipe-tamper-50602.html Wed, 30 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT Pipe tampers Pipe Tamper  
Description: A combined pipe tamper and signet ring with uncertain intaglio design.

Pipe tampers have been produced since the late 16th century to provide smokers with a tool for compressing the tobacco in their pipe bowls. This was necessary to ensure a firm draw, as well as slow and uniform burning.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Pipe tampers
Category: Pipe tampers
]]> Pipe Tamper https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/pipe-tampers/pipe-tamper-41366.html Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMT Pipe tampers Pipe Tamper  
Description: A combined pipe tamper and signet ring. The intaglio device on the ring is a displayed eagle within a beaded border.

Pipe tampers have been produced since the late 16th century to provide smokers with a tool for compressing the tobacco in their pipe bowls. This was necessary to ensure a firm draw, as well as slow and uniform burning.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Pipe tampers
Category: Pipe tampers
]]> Pipe Tamper https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/pipe-tampers/pipe-tamper-54274.html Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:51:33 GMT Pipe tampers Pipe Tamper  
Description: An incomplete combined pipe tamper and signet ring. The intaglio inscription on the ring is '3C' with one star above and one below, all within an oval beaded border. The tamper head and most of the stem are missing.

Pipe tampers have been produced since the late 16th century to provide smokers with a tool for compressing the tobacco in their pipe bowls. This was necessary to ensure a firm draw, as well as slow and uniform burning.

For a complete pipe tamper of generally similar type, see UKDFD 41366.
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Category: Pipe tampers
]]> Pipe Tamper https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/post-medieval-to-modern/pipe-tampers/pipe-tamper-29085.html Sun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT Pipe tampers Pipe Tamper  
Description: An incomplete composite pipe tamper of the post medieval period. The object comprises the top element only, in the form of a riding whip with curled end. The terminal is wedge-shaped, which fitted into the separately cast 'tamper' base element (as image 5). 

See UKDFD 54237 as a complete example.
Category: Post-Medieval to Modern, Pipe tampers
Category: Pipe tampers
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