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HI, THANKS FOR VISITING. UP FOR SALE IS A VINTAGE JOHN POLLOCK & CO OF MANCHESTER SHORT SPUR-LESS CUTTY VARIANT FORM CLAY PIPE WITH A COARSE CORAL/PEBBLE CLUSTER RUSTICATION WITH A SLIGHTLY CANTED FORWARD BOWL.
MADE BY POLLOCK OF MANCHESTER, MID 20TH CENTURY, 1970s-1980s.
THIS IS A SHORT SPUR-LESS CUTTY BOWL FORM CONSISTENT WITH POLLOCK\'S OLD CUTTY RANGE WITH A TALL FORWARD CANTED BOWL AND A CONICAL CHAMBER TAPERING DOWNWARD. PROPORTIONS MATCH A WORKING CLASS CUTTY: SHORT, COMPACT AND DESIGNED TO BE CLENCHED BETWEEN THE TEETH WHILE WORKING. THE CLAY BODY SHOWS A FAINT CREAM/IVORY TONE, SLIGHTLY LESS BRILLIANT WHITE THAN TYPICAL KAOLIN CLAY PIECES, POSSIBLY INDICATING THAT THIS PIECE MAY HAVE EITHER, BEEN FROM A DIFFERENT CLAY BATCH OR THAT IT MAY HAVE RECEIVED A LIGHT BURNISHING OR A THIN CLEAR GLAZE VERY SUBTLE SLIP WASH BEFORE FIRING. THIS IS A SOMETIMES APPLIED FINISHING DETAIL THAT GAVE THE WHITE CLAY A SLIGHTLY MORE DURABLE, SLIGHTLY MORE REFINED APPEARANCE THAN THE MATTE FINISH STANDARD PIECES. THIS IS A COARSE \"CORAL\"/\"PEBBLE-CLUSTER\" RUSTICATION WITH A CHAOTIC, THREE DIMENSIONAL MULTI DIRECTIONAL KNOBBY CLUSTERS WRAPPING THE ENTIRE BOWL AND PARTIAL SHANK TRANSITIONING TO THE SMOOTH TAPERED STEM.
THIS IS COLLECTOR-MARKET PIPE. A LATE 20TH CENTURY COLLECTOR-MARKET CLAY PRODUCED FROM AN ORIGINAL VICTORIAN ERA MOULD, FINISHED IN THEIR STANDARD WHITE KAOLIN SOMETIMES TREATED CLAY AND PACKAGED FOR THE COLLECTOR TRADE.
THIS SHORT FORM CUTTY WAS PART OF POLLOCK\'S \"COLLECTORS CLAY\" SERIES, WHICH WAS A MARKETING LINE DEVELOPED IN THE POST-WAR DECADES WHEN THE FIRM PIVOTED FROM UTILITY PIPES TO COLLECTOR AND NOVELTY WARES.IT IS A 20TH CENTURY COLLECTOR-MARKET PIECE RATHER THAN A WORKING TAVERN CLAY PIPE.
NO IDENTIFYING MARKS ON PIPE.
EDWARD POLLOCK FOUNDED A CLAY PIPE MANUFACTURING BUSINESS ON FIRST STREET, OFF OLDHAM ROAD IN MANCHESTER IN 1879. THE BUSINESS REMAINED IN THE POLLOCK FAMILY UNTIL GORDON POLLOCK RETIRED IN 1990 AND SOLD THE COMPANY TO WILSON & CO. OF SHEFFIELD. GORDON POLLOCK, THE LAST TRUE COMMERCIAL PIPE-MAKER WORKING IN BRITAIN, DIED ON MARCH 11TH 2013, AGED 98. HE WAS THE THIRD GENERATION OF POLLOCK PIPE-MAKERS.
POLLOCK\'S CLAYS CELEBRATED CORONATIONS, NATIONAL EVENTS AND FAMOUS FACES. THE FIRM CONTINUED UNTIL GORDON POLLOCK WOUND UP THE COMPANY IN 1992, SELLING ALL THE MOULDS AND TOOLS TO WILSONS OF SHARROW WHO THEN CEASED PRODUCTION IN 2011.
BEING SOLD IN \"AS IS\"/UNSMOKED CONDITION.PLEASE REFER TO PHOTOS FOR CONDITION.RETURNS ACCEPTED ON THIS ITEM WITHIN 30 DAYS.
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