PIPE

Description: SQUARISH SHAPED BOWL, STAINED WITH OIL. "ROPP DELUXE FRANCE 8 19" STAMPED ON BOTTOM OF BOWL. NECK PORTION SPLIT. WILLOW STEM & BOWL. CHURCH WARDEN STYLE. NECK SCREWS INTO BOWL. STAIN AT END OF STEM HAS BEEN MOSTLY WORN OFF.

History: *UPDATE* IN 2019, COLLECTIONS INTERN KIRSTAN SCHAMUHN CONDUCTED A SURVEY OF PERSONAL ARTIFACTS. ON 13 FEBRUARY 2019, SCHAMUHN INTERVIEWED ERNEST BRIERLY’S GRANDSON, WILLIAM IRWIN, REGARDING HIS GRANDFATHER’S PRIOR DONATIONS. THE INFORMATION BELOW HAS BEEN EXTRACTED FROM THAT INTERVIEW: ON HIS GRANDFATHER’S PIPE, IRWIN RECOUNTED: “HE ALWAYS HAD A PIPE…, BUT I CAN’T SAY THAT I EVER SAW HIM SMOKE THEM. HE PROBABLY SHOWED THEM TO ME WHEN I WAS A LITTLE BOY, BUT THAT’S ALL.” “HE ALWAYS HAD IT, AND MY DAD GOT MAD AT HIM BECAUSE WE WENT DOWN TO VISIT RELATIVES IN SPOKANE. WE WERE TRAVELING THROUGH THE MOUNTAINS IN THE SUMMERTIME, AND HE KEPT BANGING THE LOOSE TOBACCO ON THE SIDE OF THE CAR, AND DAD WAS AFRAID HE WAS GOING TO START A FOREST FIRE.” PLEASE SEE PERMANENT FILE P19683399000 FOR MORE INFORMATION INCLUDING THE FULL INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTION AND COPIES OF ARTICLES REGARDING THE FAMILY HISTORY.