Old Dominion: Williamsburg Clay Pipe Tobacco Pipe

Many makers and marques have their own unique renditions of the traditional Cutty shape, itself inspired by the clay tavern pipes of old. Not many, however, fashion iterations of the shape from its original medium: clay.

Well, thanks to a discovery of colonial pipe artifacts at Old Dominion's heirloom corn farm, we off this "Williamsburg" design. The fragmented artifacts were scanned, pieced back together in CAD software, and then modeled using 3D printing technology, resulting in master-copies for producing molds that captured the unique details of original colonial-era pipes as they would have come out of the pipe makers' molds in the 17th and 18th centuries.

These are fashioned from non-toxic, commercially produced clay, and bisque fired, as were the originals.

Note: While all of our other pipes are photographed individually, these are not, and you may expect some reasonable cosmetic variation between the example we've photographed and the pipe you've received.